Wandering Wild by Jessica Taylor

Author:Jessica Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2016-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Everyone’s in a frenzy at camp. Murmurs of Rona’s name are mingled with legal jargon like fraud and felony. They’re saying she can’t fight the charges. All she’s got on her side is some stuttering public defender. They say she’s definitely going away for a long time.

Rona got busted for running a rental scam. Some Wanderers broke into a vacant cabin and rented it out for Thanksgiving week to a bunch of different toureys. The markies shouldn’t have realized they were duped until moving-in day. Realized that there was no way into the house, that none of them had a right to it, that their money was gone forever—along with us.

This time, the cops caught on, and Rona took the pinch because her pay-by-the-minute cell number was used for the ad in the paper.

Sonia knocks on our door a little before dinnertime. “Thought you might want to know what’s going on.”

We sit on the trailer step together, both of us tucking our feet under ourselves.

“I heard Lando talking,” she says. “There’s a hearing at the end of the month. They can’t get Rona out of there unless we post bail. Lando says we don’t have the money.”

“How much?”

She whistles. “Thirty grand.”

“How much does the bondsman need to post bail?”

“Twenty percent. Six grand.”

Guilt bites at me. I’m sitting on a pile of money that could have Rona back in camp by nightfall. But my money isn’t for buying Rona’s freedom. It’s meant to buy my own.

“Don’t you worry, Tal. I know Rona’s going to be okay.” Sonia tips her face up to the sun with her eyes closed. “The Spirit of the Falconer, he’ll make sure of it.”

Even if I believed, even if I shared in Sonia’s uncanny ability for simplifying the biggest of problems, her words wouldn’t bring me comfort.

Because the Falconer didn’t keep our mother out of prison. No matter what Rona or Wen thinks happened in those weeks before Mom’s arrest.

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