The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew

Author:Kelly Andrew [Andrew, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2022-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Delaney was dreaming of holes.

The sky was black as sin. The earth underfoot was dead. The air smelled treacly and rich, like overturned dirt and lichen-kissed rot. She stood under the barbed shade of a leafless ash tree, the trunk hollowed out by clearwing borers. It was punctured with holes like a thousand winking eyes. Small holes. Large holes. Whole clusters of cavities, all black and empty. A pain persisted in her side. She rolled up her shirt, knowing already what she’d see.

A gash, claws dug deep.

A boring hole, raw and dark.

A clearwing moth fluttering, fluttering in her stomach.

The darkness tsked. It didn’t approve. Now look what you’ve done. We told you, we told you not to go near. We told you, we told you, not to play its games. Overhead, the branches rustled in a fetid breeze. She scraped at her stomach, desperate to have that terrible fluttering outside of her. It didn’t come away. It dug deep as a tick, fat and sated.

I am the thing that crawls inside. That strange, aeonian voice drowned out the leathery whisper of branches. I am the beast who burrows. I am the varmint who nibbles at your bones.

Wake up, Delaney Meyers-Petrov. Wake up and help me bring about an end.

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