The Wood Queen by Karen Mahoney

Author:Karen Mahoney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781742756332
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

“Ah, a good question. At last.” Newton sounded almost impressed.

Painfully aware of Nav’s anxiety to leave, Donna did her best to tune him out. “Is it a question you’re going to answer?”

“The answer you seek is already inside you.”

Her heart sank like a stone. “What kind of Zen crap is that? Who do you think you are, Yoda?”

“I know what you want, and my answer stands: you have already activated your powers, girl. There’s nothing more I can tell you.”

Scowling, Donna turned away. “Come on, Nav. This is a waste of time.”

He hesitated. “Should we just … leave it here like this? As Simon’s slave? It’s as trapped as we are.”

“I can hardly fit him in my bag.” Not that she would; that horrible thing had just played her for a fool.

Newton fluttered his eyelids. Click, click. “I promise to be very quiet.”

“No,” she said. “Absolutely no way.”

And there was no way—she couldn’t help a demon. Apart from it going against everything she’d been brought up to believe, demons couldn’t be trusted. Everybody knew that. They lied. It’s a fact, she reminded herself fiercely.

But then, so do alchemists, said a dark voice inside her as they ran from the room and headed back up the passageway. Behind her she heard that awful, grating voice offer one final message. She tried to close her ears to it, but the words were loud and clear—even above the sound of their pounding feet:

“There’s a storm coming, little Underwood—can’t you feel it?”

As her sneakers hit the hard-packed earth of the corridor’s floor, another thought came to her, bright and clear and sharp as a blade: How had the statue—Newton, or whatever its real name was—managed to repeat almost the exact same words she’d heard her mother speak in a dream?

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