The Case of the Feathered Mask by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb [Holly Webb]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781847155214
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2014-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

“Gently. Slowly,” the professor said, in a coaxing voice. “Is it getting easier?”

It was, Maisie decided, nodding slightly.

“And now, still with your eyes closed, try to look upwards, to between your eyebrows. Try to feel the breath moving past that place…”

But it isn’t, Maisie wanted to say. It’s nowhere near there! But she had a feeling that she wasn’t supposed to talk. So she did try, even though it didn’t seem to make a lot of sense. And it was rather nice, just sitting still and breathing. She stopped worrying about her stupid mistake with Mr Mossley, and how infuriating it was that she couldn’t remember the night the mask was stolen.

The mask itself did keep popping into her head, though. Its odd, squarish eyes were floating around in front of the spot between her eyebrows, as though it was trying to tell her something. And then it bobbed away again, tucked under his arm.

His arm!

Maisie sat up with a screech. “I remember! Professor, I really do! It was like the mask came and told me – I saw it!”

“Ha. The information was there all the time, we just had to bring it out,” the professor said triumphantly. “Did you remember anything useful, Maisie?”

Maisie slumped back in the chair, frowning. “Well, I think so. But it seems a bit silly. It was definitely a man that I saw running off with the mask. He bumped into me by accident on the stairs, and I saw him just for a second, by candlelight. But, Professor – I think he was a giant…”

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