The Prism Blade by Patricia Bow

Author:Patricia Bow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000, JUV037000, FIC009010
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2008-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

“Right, we’d better get down.” Amelia no longer felt like flying or dancing. She sank to a crouch and quivered. The pavement looked miles away. “I’ll break my neck!”

“Not to fear.” Ty reached, hoisted her up, and pinned her under one arm. She squawked, but didn’t dare struggle. Ty walked up the slope of the roof to the peak with Amelia tucked against his jacket like a long, droopy parcel, and then walked down the other side. When he came to the eavestrough he stepped out into air and dropped. Amelia shut her eyes and opened her mouth, but before the scream could escape she felt herself spun upright and plunked on her feet.

She opened her eyes. They were standing on the patio behind the house. She swayed, then caught her balance. Took a deep breath. Faced Ty, who stood grinning at her.

“You’re insane. What did you do to those punks?”

“Do?” He looked surprised. “Nothing. I liked their looks, so I watched them for a time, to know how to shape myself and how to speak, and then I came where they were. ‘Where you from,’ they said. ‘I am from another world,’ I said. ‘I am not human.’ ‘Cool,’ they said.”

“Yes, well, you keep it like that. Cool.” Amelia headed around the house to the front, waved to the woman who frowned across the street at them, and started back towards the games field. “Remember, we’re going to do this the way Mara would.”

“She is a great chief.” Ty looked serious. “She is one of the wisest ever, some say, even though she is still young.”

“Right. Well, Mara wouldn’t kill Pier. That’s not her way. She wouldn’t just throw her weight around. She’d think of the smart way out.”

“Then that’s what we’ll do.” Ty swaggered beside her, clinking and flashing. “And then what?”

“What do you mean, ‘and then what?”

“When we have the Great Bane, what will you do? How will you destroy it?”

“Good glory, I don’t know! One thing at a time!”

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