The Puppet Master by Charlie Small

Author:Charlie Small [Small, Charlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79289-1
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

I walked between rows of sleeping houses and right out of the town. Over hills and across valleys, I followed Mum’s voice as it called me on. Then, as I crossed the brow of another hill, her voice was joined by the sound of the most delicate music.

It sounded like the tootling of panpipes, and as I walked on, the music became louder, an orchestra of flutes filling the air. I turned a bend in the road and found myself looking down at a forest of strange and decayed beauty. I learned later that it was the Petrified Forest Trapper Blane had marked on his map, a forest of dead and fossilized trees.

As I walked through the forest, I heard the music coming from the trees themselves. Their trunks had become hollow and, as the wind passed through the holes, they acted like huge organ pipes, each tree producing a different note.

Now, as the air around me gently shifted, a chorus of notes filled the air, like the cries of singing whales. Woven into the wonderful, airborne melody was the voice … Mum’s voice. Although it didn’t sound quite so much like my mum’s voice any more.

I walked between two great gnarled tree trunks and stepped out into a clearing, where I saw a dark shape, silhouetted against the light of a campfire. A cloaked figure sat with its back to me, hunched over the embers of a fire. Was it really my mother? I crept forward.

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