The Glass Word by Kai Meyer

Author:Kai Meyer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2008-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

THE ABDUCTION

THEY’RE GONE,” JUNIPA SAID.

“What?”

“They’re not in the hiding place anymore.” Piercing the silver veil of the mirror world, Junipa was looking into the Iron Eye, into the room where they’d left the comrades. “There’s no one there now,” she said in distress.

“Where did they go?”

“I don’t know. I have to look for them.”

Merle swore because she couldn’t see through the mirror herself. All she saw were blurry forms and colors, but no clear pictures. At the moment she couldn’t even make out which mirror the hiding place had lain behind.

“There’s … there’s been a fight,” Junipa said. “The sphinxes—they discovered them.”

“Oh, no!”

“There are three men lying on the floor … three spies. They’re dead. The others are gone.”

“And Vermithrax?”

“I don’t see him.”

“But you can’t miss him!”

Junipa turned toward her, and for perhaps the first time since Merle had known her, her voice sounded irritated.

“Be patient, will you? I have to concentrate.”

Merle bit her lower lip and kept quiet. Her knees were trembling.

Junipa let go of her hand and looked around, turning in all directions among the mirrors. “The Iron Eye is so big. There are too many mirrors. They could be anywhere.”

“Then take me back into the hiding place.”

“Are you really sure? That could be dangerous.”

“I want to see it with my own eyes. Otherwise it’s so … so unreal.”

Junipa nodded. “Stay close by me. Just in case we have to disappear again fast.” She took Merle by the hand again and whispered the glass word, and they walked through a mirror as if through a curtain of moonlight.

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