The Glass Puzzle by Christine Brodien-Jones

Author:Christine Brodien-Jones [Brodien-Jones, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-97993-3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2013-07-09T04:00:00+00:00

The sun was just coming up, washing the sky in shades of yellow, pearl and silver, when Zoé and Ian crept out of their grandfather’s cottage. As arranged, they met Pippin outside the apothecary on Cresswell Street. Walking through a light mist, the three talked nonstop about their meeting with Dr. Marriott and The Book of Astercôte.

“So the Afflicted look and act like ordinary people, but in reality they’re being controlled by Scravens,” Ian was saying. “The only way we can identify them is by their blue-tinted glasses—and, oh yeah, they don’t make eye contact.”

Zoé kept thinking about the people in the café and their black whirling eyes. The Afflicted. Her stomach twisted into knots as she had a sudden, awful vision of Tenby, where everyone in town had been taken over by Scravens.

“Dr. Thistle has blue-tinted glasses,” she said. “He’s probably one.”

“Yeah, but ordinary people wear tinted glasses, too,” argued Pippin. “Blue lenses are popular, but not everybody wearing ’em is a Scraven.”

“Good point,” said Ian. “That’s why we need the puzzle pieces to identify the Afflicted, because we need to know our enemy. That means we have to stay undercover: strength lies in secrecy, as they say.”

“Because this is war,” said Pippin.

“We fight to the death.” Zoé raised her clenched fist.

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