The Amulet by Alison Pensy

Author:Alison Pensy [Pensy, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Alison Pensy
Published: 2012-04-14T18:48:14+00:00

The morning came far too quickly for Faedra’s liking. She rolled over to look at her clock. “What time is it?” she mumbled to herself as she stretched.

“Ten o’clock in the morning, Ms. Faedra.”

She nearly jumped out of her skin, and looked to the end of her bed. Faen was sitting there, dressed in his fae attire once more. Her shoulders slumped.

“It wasn’t just a bad dream after all, was it?” she asked dejectedly.

“No, Ms. Faedra, it was not.”

She could hear the muffled sounds of the television coming from the living room below her. Her dad had probably been up and around bright and early and let her sleep in. He likely thought she would be suffering from a hang-over this morning, but she was pleased to be feeling surprisingly clear headed. She heard the latch lift on the living room door.

“Fae, are you awake?” Henry called up the stairs.

“Just about,” she called back.

“You have to come and see this. Something really weird is happening.”

Faedra looked at Faen with a ‘what now?’ expression plastered all over her face. Extricating herself from the bedcovers, she threw her bathrobe on over her pajamas. Faen blurred into his dog form and jumped off the bed to follow her out the door. She stopped dead at the top of the stairs. He hadn’t been anticipating that and bumped right into the back of her legs. She turned slowly to look out of the window. Faen nudged her leg - he couldn’t risk changing into his true form outside of her room - to ask her what was wrong. She looked down at him then back out of the window.

“Look,” she pointed out the window.

He stood on his hind legs, rested his front paws on the windowsill and looked in the same direction as her.

“The leaves are turning. It’s still summer, they shouldn’t be turning for another couple of months yet.” They looked at one another, turned, and nearly fell over each other going down the stairs in their haste to get to the living room.

Her dad was sitting in his chair, cupping a mug of tea in his hands. He was glued to the television, completely mesmerized.

“It’s the same thing on every channel,” he stated, tearing his eyes away from the screen for just a second then returning them directly. “They thought at first it was a group of activists spraying weed killer. Like that time, a few years back, when the activists burned fields of genetically modified crops in protest. But now it’s happening all over the world, and no one can explain it.”

Faedra perched herself on the edge of the sofa. Faen sat by her feet; they were both very still. They watched while the news anchor described the phenomenon unraveling all over the world. It had started last night in England, but quickly spread throughout Europe, then to Asia, Australia, and now America. Crops were dying. Huge swaths of agricultural fields were being wiped out.

“If this continues, the world will be facing a famine of global proportions,” the newsreader’s grave voice told the viewers.

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