Wildwitch 3 by Lene Kaaberbøl

Author:Lene Kaaberbøl [Kaaberbøl, Lene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782691150
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2016-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Oakhurst Academy

I could hear cooing around me. I was lying on my back on one of Mrs Pommerans’s old quilts, and four or five wood pigeons were mincing around me, pecking at the grass and the twigs, completely indifferent to the girl lying in their midst.

Slowly I sat up.

I wasn’t Kimmie. It had all been a dream.

Kahla was sitting on the garden bench with Mrs Pommerans, but as soon as I stirred, she leapt up and a couple of offended pigeons flapped their wings.

“So?” she said. “What happened?”

“Nothing.” I touched my hair tentatively. Smooth, mousey. Clara hair. Same as always. “Not really…”

“What do you mean? It didn’t work?”

“I just had a dream about two girls. Not… not dead ones. Not revenants.” The word felt strange and alien in my mouth. “It was just a dream about some girls who discovered the cave below Westmark. You know, where Shanaia’s family is from…” I looked to Mrs Pommerans. Of course she knew Shanaia, both of them had helped me against Chimera last autumn, but I wasn’t sure if she’d ever visited Shanaia’s childhood home.

“I’ve heard about it,” was all she said. “What happened in your dream?”

I told them about Kimmie and Pavola. Mrs Pommerans listened attentively.

“It must be important,” she said. “More important than you think.” She had tipped seeds from the basket onto a plate and was removing some that didn’t seem to belong. Every time she threw a seed on the ground, the wood pigeons would start to flap and argue over it, as if it were a chunk of bread.

“Silly birds,” she chided them. “As if there isn’t enough food around already…” Then she seemed to stop her train of thought. “Please tell me again,” she said.

“All of it?” I said, somewhat overwhelmed.

“No. Just what happened in the cave.”

“But… nothing really happened. The girls brushed the sand away and looked at the wheel. Kimmie tried dripping some of her blood onto it, but it didn’t work. It wasn’t the right blood.”

“Was that everything?”

I struggled to explain the part about Kimmie suddenly knowing for sure that she and Pavola were no longer friends. I didn’t understand why, but Kimmie had believed it was hugely, terribly important.

“She… Kimmie, I mean, she said… or rather, she didn’t say anything, it was more what she was thinking. That they had grown apart, or something like that. That she was too old to be friends with Pavola. That something else was more important now.”

Mrs Pommerans watched me through narrowed eyes.

“Yes. The question is what. Kahla?”

“Yes?”

“Do you know how to get to Oakhurst Academy?”

“Along the wildways?”

“Yes.”

“Easily. I’ve been there three times with my dad,” Kahla said. “He thought about sending me there when… when my mum…” Her smile faded, and she clearly had to steel herself to carry on. “… I mean, when she could no longer be responsible for my training. But I decided that I would rather study with Isa.”

I’d never found out what really happened to Kahla’s mother. All I knew

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