The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison

Author:Michelle Harrison [Harrison, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9781847384492
Google: N_C0NwAACAAJ
Amazon: B0058U6WZ4
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2010-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

13

VOIDING FABIAN THE FOLLOWING day was to prove more difficult than Tanya anticipated. Since her discovery of Red and the knowledge of the truth behind her ability, Tanya now had her own agenda, and it was one that did not involve Fabian or his plans to go gallivanting in the woods. When she finally came out of her room shortly after midday, stiff and exhausted, the first thing on her mind was to find out who the changeling in her family might have been – and for that she had no idea where to start. She wondered who had been switched: someone from her mother’s side of the family, or her father’s, and whether they had lived many years ago . . . or whether it was someone alive now, someone she knew. This possibility disturbed her deeply.

Her second concern was the list of items that Red had asked her to get. This, she knew, was going to be problematic, for she only had a few pounds left over from what she’d spent in Tickey End. Unless she figured out a way of getting some more money then she would have to risk filching most of the items from around the house – and this would take time and planning. Until the list was complete, there was little Tanya could do except supply Red with food and water through the passage behind the bookcase.

Her grandmother was nowhere to be seen when she went downstairs, although a note had been left on the fridge bearing the message that her mother had telephoned earlier that morning. Tanya screwed it up and chucked it into the bin. She was still sore about being left at the manor in the first place. If her mother was trying to ease her conscience for dumping her out in the countryside then Tanya had no intentions of making it easy for her.

She filled a bowl with cornflakes and sat down at the kitchen table. Florence had not been at all happy when Tanya had refused to come down for breakfast. She had spent several minutes banging on the bedroom door before finally giving up and stomping back downstairs.

Halfway through her breakfast, Tanya got up and switched on the radio on the windowsill, listening for the news. There was a brief mention of the stolen child and a further description of Red. When the bulletin ended, Tanya was tense. The thought of Red in the tunnels below the house left her ill at ease and, not for the first time, she wondered if keeping quiet was a mistake she’d come to regret. A torrent of conflicting thoughts fought inside her. Red was unstable, desperate. Desperate people did desperate things. Dangerous things. There was nothing to say she would keep her word and stay out of the house. Yet she was also the only person Tanya knew of that shared her ability, and this was a bond she could not ignore. They had both suffered at the hands of the fairies, but now it was evident that so far, what Tanya had experienced was torment.

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