The Girl Who Never Was by Skylar Dorset

Author:Skylar Dorset [Dorset, Skylar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teen Paranormal
ISBN: 9781402292538
Amazon: 1402292538
Goodreads: 17708622
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: 2014-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The train squeals along, and it seems like I am just on a conventional T in a conventional tunnel, except that we never hit Boylston. The train goes and goes, and I watch the tunnel pass by my window. I have my hands pulled back, hidden in the sleeves of my enchanted sweatshirt. In my pocket are tattered pages from old books, a piece of glass wrapped in a tissue, a button from the Salem Which Museum, and a threaded needle. I have no idea what I intend to do with these items, but they are all I have brought in terms of weapons, and I don't even know if they are weapons. I have these and the power of my name. Words: the most important things, according to Will. I don't even know what that means.

Maybe I won't need any weapons. Maybe there won't be any fight. Maybe my mother will be wonderful; maybe she'll hug me and tell me how much she's missed me. And then I'll say, Can't we all just get along, all of us, the faeries and the Seelies and the ogres in Boston? And my mother will say, Of course, this has all just been a huge misunderstanding. And I'll have a regular family. And Ben.

While I am indulging in this fantasy, the train suddenly bursts out into sunlight. One minute there is a tunnel, and the next minute there is sky. Just sky. Lots and lots of sky. And there, in the distance, dimly, some land that I cannot really perceive. It's like looking too hard at it makes it dissolve into blurs.

The train stops. Its doors open, chiming at me. I swallow thickly and exit, carefully stepping out on the narrow strip of land that lies between the train and the sky. It is a canyon, I can see now'a vast chasm of red rock, stretching to my right and to my left and below me, as if it is the only thing that exists.

'Are you crossing Mag Mell?'asks a voice behind me.

I whirl around, startled. The train has soundlessly disappeared, and there is a little girl watching me from a few feet away. She is an extremely beautiful little girl, her black hair pin straight and pulled back with a large pink bow. She is dressed in the sort of frilly pink lace dress that can only be described as a princess dress. And she is eating an enormous lollipop.

'What's Mag Mell?'I ask.

She nods in a vague way that seems to indicate the canyon and takes a slurp of her lollipop and says, 'So? Are you crossing it?'

'I'm trying to get to Tir na nOg,'I tell her.

She looks at me like I'm stupid. 'That's the only reason you'd cross Mag Mell,'she informs me.

'Oh,'I say awkwardly, because I feel stupid. How did I

ever think that I would come here and save Ben and that this would all somehow work?

She studies me for a second, and I wonder what she's thinking, if

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