Wings of Sorrow and Bone by Beth Cato

Author:Beth Cato
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Rivka was afraid, and she coped the only way she knew how: she built.

Blueprints sprawled across her worktable. Large bolts and stubby pipes tamed the stubbornly curled edges of parchment. Kellar Dryn’s notes were stacked to one side, his cramped cursive circling around sketches and diagrams and equations. Rivka scanned over pages as she worked with bits of metal to construct an articulated model wing. It wouldn’t contain any wiring or powering mechanisms yet. Mr. Dryn had advised her to start with the skeleton and work inward.

She ignored the clock and the protests of her hollow stomach as long as she could. Finally, she wandered to the kitchen, and with a piece of bread in her hand, she stared out the window. Sunset smeared color down the windows of the surrounding towers. Down in the plaza, ­people would be rushing home from school and work, filling any available tram car and taxi cabriolet.

Rivka needed to go down there, terrified as she was. She needed to know if her idea was working.

She slipped on her coat and grabbed one of the freshly printed books from the shelf: Gem: or, The True Plight of Gremlins. Today was release day. She hugged the vivid green book to her chest, the cover bold against the deep black of her coat, and headed for the tram.

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