The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees

Author:Alyssa Wees
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

The Witch of Wishes took the Fox Who Is No Fox by the hand and led him into her castle, pulled him onto the dais.

“Sit,” she said, pointing to her throne.

He sat. He stared up at her, waiting for her next command.

It didn’t come.

She stood beside him and said nothing for so long, looking up through the open roof at the spiders as they clambered home to the trees, that finally he hooked one arm around her waist and settled her sideways on his lap, her legs draped over his knees. The Witch stiffened, and he held his breath.

This, the Witch thought, is the safest place in all the worlds.

And then she sighed, sighed and let her head fall against his shoulder. The scream in her throat relented, retreated, and the bone bloom in her heart closed its red petals. The Witch breathed against his skin, in and in and in. He smelled like a wish that you think is finally about to come true. Sweet and sharp. Apples and cinnamon. She crushed herself more tightly against him, edging ever closer.

“Speak,” she whispered into the cradle of his neck, breathing out and out and out.

Except for the necessary rise and fall of his chest, the blink of his eyes, the beat of his heart, the Fox Who Is No Fox did not move, as if the slightest disturbance would be enough for the Witch to change her mind and order him away. His arm around the small of her back, he told the next stretch of his story.

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