The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas

Author:Suzy McKee Charnas [Charnas, Suzy McKee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781597290562
Publisher: Graphia
Published: 1993-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Claudia finished in a small voice, “Are you sure any of this is about me? I’m not brave.”

Rachel ripped a sheet of notebook paper from a pad on Claudia’s bureau, and then motioned to Claudia to sing it all again, which she did—three times, one for each of us, I guess—while Rachel scribbled down the words with a chewed-up pencil stub from her pocket.

“Well, I got it all, I think,” she said, chomping nervously on the pencil as she read and re-read her transcription. “Boy. Is this for real?”

But she knew as well as I did that Claudia couldn’t have made up that poem.

Somehow their getting the prophecy seemed to let me off the hook for a while. The two of them could go fix things for Rotten Kevin. I was a princess in mourning; I wasn’t supposed to be wrestling with moorims for truth. I was supposed to be back home giving visitors coffee and listening to them tell me how wonderful Cousin Shelly had been. I rolled off Claudia’s bed and stretched out on the floor.

“Amy, when do you have to get this magic sword to Kevin?” Rachel asked.

I tried to work it out. My brain drowsed. Maybe when the moorim slept I had to sleep, too? Or maybe I had just not had enough sleep back in the Brangle to hold me.

“Come on, Amy,” Rachel coaxed. “I’m sorry I was snippy with you.”

“Sure.” I yawned. “Kevin just said he needs the sword soon. Listen, I have to lie down.”

“You are lying down,” Claudia said. She took the sheet of paper from Rachel and studied it.

I curled up on the floor and dozed, but I could hear the two of them talking over the garble from Claudia’s TV.

Claudia: “Let’s finish the popcorn. We don’t want to go to Kevin’s country on an empty stomach.”

Rachel: “I thought you weren’t brave enough to go.”

I heard getting-up sounds. I was so surprised I almost woke up.

“It doesn’t say here that anybody dies,” Claudia said. “And I want to meet this Kevin. Isn’t it romantic, having a boy pop into Amy’s life from the past like that?”

Romantic! Kevin and me! I snorted sarcastically, or thought I did.

The floor under my cheek vibrated slightly as Rachel paced. The rug under my nose smelled faintly of butter. Claudia did too much eating in her room.

“The timing is terrible,” Rachel said and thumped or kicked a piece of furniture. She got physical sometimes when she was upset. “We’ve got major reports and exams before spring break, you know? You’d think Amy could be more considerate.”

Claudia said, “You don’t have to come with me.”

“Who says you’re going anywhere? Amy has the only key to the place, that pin of hers. Are you going to take it?”

“Rachel Breakstone, I am not a stealer,” Claudia said. “I have my own way into the Fayre Farre. The moorim will take me.”

“The moorim is Amy’s, too.” Now Rachel sounded snippy with Claudia. And she said I acted weird!

Claudia said, “Well, it’s in my purse.

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