Those Who Favor Fire by Lauren Wolk

Author:Lauren Wolk [Wolk, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56062-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

For a long time, Joe sat in his kitchen with the letter in his hands and thought about his sister. Pictured her placing the box on the Jaguar’s back floor. Pictured her smiling with satisfaction. Pictured the box sliding under the driver’s seat as he hurried out of town that night.

He could almost feel Holly’s eyes upon him as he turned back the petals of tissue and saw the trio of sleek gold wafers, the crisp coins that nestled inside. He had taken them for her. Now they were his. And there would never be a way to give them back to her.

He put the letter back into the box and the box back into the trunk, shut the lid, walked out of the Schooner, left the door swinging on its hinges.

When he reached the sloping fields beyond the stream, he began to run. At the edge of the forest on the far side of the fields, he grabbed the purple bramble whips that gave most intruders pause and tugged them aside with his bare hands. As he stumbled into the shadowy cathedral of the trees, he was not looking for solace. He wanted immediate distance, a degree of oblivion, exhaustion. He was hoping that the impartial trees would simply shield him for a while from the scrutiny of the world. But he did not reckon on the uncanny knack of forests to hone the truth, or the power of solitude to magnify remorse.

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