The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly by Sybil Lamb

Author:Sybil Lamb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

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FOURTEEN FLOORS IN FORTY-TWO SECONDS

The next morning, Eggs snapped awake with the sun. She stretched and fluttered to the window ledge, announcing that she would fly away now.

Splendid Wren pleaded with Eggs, “Just let me make you some tea—or maybe some eggs, if that’s not weird—and then maybe stay and live with me forever?”

But before Wren could finish her racing words, Eggs disappeared. She plummeted out the window while Wren was mumbling, “See you later …”

Wren stared uncertainly at the empty window, her brain a tangled mess of dropped stitches. Had the most unusual girl she’d ever met just flown in her window, told her all kinds of impossible stories, and then flown out again? Or had Wren been alone so long she was seeing things?

Now that Eggs was gone, Wren wasn’t sure if she’d been real or a waking dream, or maybe Wren was still dreaming. Maybe she’d had one of those flying dreams that dream doctors are always talking about.

Wren was mostly sure Eggs was real and had probably just flown off to go sit on a statue or get some worms or something. “That’s just what flying girls must be like,” Wren reasoned to herself.

She opened up a secret box of cookies and lined three of them along the window ledge, carefully positioning them so they could be noticed from a few metres away in any direction. Then she flopped into her beanbag chair and picked up her space book where she’d left off. So lost was Wren in her thoughts, she didn’t think to run to the window to see where Eggs had gone after that fourteen-storey drop.

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