The Great Storm by Terry Deary

Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472950277
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Storm and Tuk fell silent as they slowly helped their father drag the sled. Not one of them saw any danger ahead. There wasn’t any.

They should have looked over their shoulders. Coming down the hill, a thousand steps behind them, was a large, dark figure pulling a lighter sledge with leather bags on the back.

Not even a snowy owl’s eyes could have made out the face in the shadow of the hood. But it could have seen two eyes shining in the moonlight.

6

Secret Search

The family stopped the sledge a hundred paces from the front of the village. The hidden sun was turning the sky the colour of amber. Bright as the amber stones that Storm would sometimes find on the beaches.

They went over their plan again, as the wind carried away the sound of the other sledge that passed behind a frosted hill, and hid near the back of the village. The large, hooded figure waited and chewed on a piece of dried seal meat. The fierce eyes didn’t blink.

Tuk walked down to the top of the slope that led into the half-buried village. Storm ran around to the back door. When she was ready she gave the cry of a snowy owl. Tuk breathed in the icy air and let out a wail as he ran down the slope into the dark passages.

‘Storm... Mother... Orc is back... they’ll hurt him... Storm... run and warn him!’ he cried. His voice was an echo on the cold-hard, stone-hard, rough-cut walls of the houses. The echoes faded. For a long while there was silence.

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