Swans and Silence by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1539755320
Google: E1sgMQAACAAJ
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

"Do you have any idea where this girl is taking us?"

The voice rang out behind me. Around us, the light got long and tired. We'd been walking the entire day through the woods, only once stopping to munch on jerky and fill up our canteens and wash up at a clean, bubbling stream.

It was Mary.

Mica turned to her. She was walking on her own now, between Brie and Stilt. The two of them seemed to hang around her like she was a matriarch. When I thought about it, she was. Mary ruled the village she lived in. Or had. She might as well be a queen herself.

"Exactly," Macon said from behind her. "She's taking us straight to Alric and pretending not to be able to speak."

He walked right behind Mary. Two of the women behind him rolled their eyes. Macon clearly grated on a lot of nerves here. Even Mica's mother sighed with impatience.

"Macon, stop being such a know-it-all," Mary said. "This girl helped go after the bandits that stole our book. She went into danger. She helped Henry when you shot him. Mica and Henry trust her and I trust them. She could have always told her magic yarn to lead them into a trap instead."

Macon opened his mouth to speak, but Mary glared at him. That shut him up.

"I was only asking where this girl is taking us," she continued.

"To the other world. We told you already. Alric isn't there. Fable is in trouble and we need to get you out of here before he finds you."

I nodded again, feeling stupid. If only I could just talk...

"But where in the other world?" Mary asked. "It's just that...I haven't seen my family in thirty years."

"I don't know. She can't tell us." Mica stepped closer to me and waved to the sack of flowers that he had set on the ground. "She needs help. It's obvious. Something's wrong. Besides, why would a dark being have an artifact like that ball of yarn?"

I glanced at it. The purple lifeline still stretched into the trees. I couldn't see the end of it. We'd been following for hours. The way back to the other world was a long way away, but not as far as finding the starwort in the other world would have been. My feet quivered. I'd done so much walking in the last few days that I knew I was losing weight.

"Come on," Mica said. "We need to find wherever we need to go before it gets too dark."

We started walking faster again. At least Mica was a king and people listened to him. But this wasn't the Sun Kingdom. He was out of his league here.

We all started moving again, heading along the line. It glowed more and more the darker it got. Rae and Henry caught up with us and the four of us walked together. None of us spoke for a long time, but Rae would give me a sympathetic look every once in a while.

The dusk turned to black and we were left following the pale purple line into the night.

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