The Lost City by Amanda Hocking

Author:Amanda Hocking
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Trust

Eliana sat cross-legged on the couch. Beside her, Hanna apprehensively chewed her lip and kept her gaze on Eliana and Pan, with periodic nervous glances in my direction.

Pan sat on a stool and rested his arm on the table, propping his head up, and he’d taken in the whole story—everything we knew about Eliana and how she’d ended up in our apartment—with a reserved curiosity.

“What do you think?” I asked once we’d wrapped up our exposition.

“I don’t know,” he said finally, and his eyes were on Eliana. “You really don’t remember anything?”

“Not really, but sorta. There’s stuff that I know or I’ll just remember, and then other times … I can tell there’s something there, inside my head.” She moved her hands rapidly around her head, as if to demonstrate. “But it’s out of reach. It’s hidden behind a murky wall, and I can’t get through it, no matter how hard I try.”

“What’s the first thing you remember?” Pan asked.

“I don’t know. I have no idea how to sort my memories chronologically,” she explained. “They’re random scenes that might connect to others but I don’t usually know how.”

“What’s your first memory in Merellä?” Pan asked, coming at the question from a different angle.

“Um … it was dark.” Eliana stared up at the ceiling and squinted. “Nighttime. I was sitting on the roof of one of the houses here, watching the stars, and I was thinking … I was wondering how I was going to go about finding someone.”

Pan sat up straight on the stool. “Who were you trying to find?”

She shook her head. “I don’t know. I don’t think I even knew then.”

“Then how do you know you were looking for someone?” I asked.

“Do you ever walk into a room, and you know that you came in there for something, but you can’t remember what it is? It’s usually simple or silly, maybe a book or a mango. But you don’t know. You can’t remember, but deep down you’re certain you went in there for something,” Eliana explained as best she could. “That there’s something that you’re missing.”

“She might have been coming to see you, Pan,” Dagny suggested. She stood off to the side of the room, watching the whole conversation unfold.

“You mean the Inhemsk Project? Does that sound familiar?” Pan asked.

“We already asked her about it,” I clarified.

“It sounds familiar now because they’ve talked about it, but I don’t remember hearing of it before. I just knew…” Her brow furrowed as she concentrated. “I think I heard that the Mimirin is where you come to find someone.”

“That is true.” Pan leaned forward now, resting his arms on his legs. “I can help you find who you’re looking for.”

“How?” Eliana asked doubtfully. “If I don’t even know who it is, how can you possibly find them?”

“It’s my job,” he said matter-of-factly. “Right now I’m helping Ulla try to find her mother, and she has a few leads, but none of them are concrete. All she really knows is that she didn’t spring fully formed from the earth, so she has to have a mother out there somewhere.

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