Where the Woods End by Charlotte Salter

Author:Charlotte Salter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2018-08-14T07:00:00+00:00

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Kestrel opened her eyes. She was still in the face painter’s clearing, but the vision had been so strong she could almost feel her grandma’s hands on her shoulders.

“Kes?” Pippit mumbled in her ear. “Wot?”

“Nothing,” Kestrel said, wriggling her finger in her ear. She was disturbed. It had felt so real it was almost like a memory, but she knew that she had never waved to her grandma’s grabber. And it was impossible that the grabber had been there, fully formed, for weeks without attacking. Kestrel crumpled up the strange vision like a piece of unwanted paper and tossed it out of her mind.

“Trapper,” Pippit urged, pushing his nose against her face. “Gruh!”

“Where’s my dad?” Kestrel asked urgently, looking around. “What happened to him, Pip?”

Her gaze fell on her dad’s coat, which was in a pile next to the dead face painter. Immediately her ear went pop again, and Kestrel’s memory flooded back so fast she almost fell over.

She winced as she remembered falling from the tree, and the black dog standing over her. She’d followed the black dog to her mother’s house and promised that she would never speak to Finn again . . . and she’d done it because something awful was happening.

In the distance, a dozen wolves howled in celebration. Kestrel felt all the warmth leave her bones.

Her dad was being chased by his grabber.

“Dad!” she yelped, dropping the coat. Panic swept over her. She had to catch up with him. Kestrel jumped over the face painter’s body, making for the trees.

“Smell trail,” Pippit said. “Still there. Trapper!”

“We’re not too late,” Kestrel said, dizzy with astonishment. “We’re going to make it!”

They raced into the trees, leaving the dead monster and the stunned wolf behind them.

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