The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still by Catherynne M. Valente

Author:Catherynne M. Valente [Valente, Catherynne M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Childrens
Goodreads: 33152373
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Jax, Mo, and Loathsome had been gone for no more than a few hours.

Fin couldn’t remember ever going so long without seeing his twin. Without knowing she was safe and nearby. Without talking to her. It made him nervous. It made him feel unsteady, like he could just tumble off into the night at any moment. The others seemed to have lost a little interest in him once Jax had taken off with Mo. They had other priorities. The mystery could wait until their friend came back.

In the meantime, they were very busy.

The humans were building something.

Roary, Koal, and Jesster all had pairs of soft grey wings attached to their backs. They used them to glide from the ship to a smallish island off the port side where they were working. Fin knew what they were. Elytra. A couple of days ago he’d had dozens of pairs of his own. Now, Roary and Koal had to carry him between them when they flew over to their new base. They didn’t need anything from the ship. There wasn’t much left there anyway, except the small mountain of enchanted books. But Roary wanted them all to stick together over on the new beachhead. She didn’t want to leave Fin alone back there.

Fin watched them make quick work of that little island. It was dizzying. Their hands moved so fast and so cleverly. Fin looked down at his own hands. He didn’t think he could ever do anything like that. That confident. That purposeful. That casual. They must have had some kind of blueprint for whatever they were building, but they never seemed to need to reference it or argue amongst themselves over where to put the next cornerpiece or anything.

Roary and Jesster attacked the grove of chorus trees at the north end of the island. They hacked them up for the wood before Fin could begin to explain how to make chorus corn from the fruits. Koal got busy carving blocks of end stone, the very stuff of the land in the End, out of a little cliff on the west side. Fin didn’t think that would be enough to make anything too impressive. You’d have to mine half the islands in the End to build something as big as Telos. And it looked like that was about the size of their plan. But when they pooled the chorus trees and stone at the building site on a flat meadow in the center of the isle, protected by gentle hills on all sides, it quickly became clear the humans weren’t relying on just what they could scavenge here.

Something was wrong with their pockets. They could pull anything out of them. Stones, food, weapons, anything. It was like they were wearing his whole ship, as it had been before Kraj and his goons, and shoveling items out as they needed them. It was magic.

“By the Great Chaos,” Fin whispered. No one heard him. They had way too much to do.

Roary had half a wall up before Fin knew what he was looking at.

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