Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

Author:Kristin Cashore [Cashore, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473232808
Google: N7fqDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B089G5TZHB
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 2021-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

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On Friday night, Lovisa climbed the pokey rocks as usual and hid behind a tree, gazing up at the house.

The uselessness of this grueling daily endeavor was making her resentful, as she’d never been before, of this house. She’d always liked it unthinkingly, been proud of its grandeur, of the airship on its roof. But it was a prison; it was the prison her little brothers would become men in.

And then something happened, up near the roof, that made her feel like her lungs were trying to climb out of her body. A clattering noise, faint, but eventually repeated. Then repeated again, and again. She waited and listened a long time, holding her breath in agony whenever the guards circled by. Sometimes it was more of a tap or a scrape; other times, it was as if glass rang like a bell; and Lovisa was pretty sure it was coming from the attic window. What did it mean?

Half out of her mind, she began the climb up the face of the house.

She didn’t get far, not even past the first story, before logic returned and she saw it was too dangerous and difficult. But she got high enough that she could hear it more clearly, and confirm for herself that it came from the attic window. It sounded like something small and hard crashing against the window glass, over and over.

The letter opener, Lovisa thought. She’s trying to break the window with the letter opener. And, Oh, I wish she would stop, because they’ll hear her, and then they’ll kill her.

She’s alive, she thought, dropping back down to the ground, rubbing her painful fingers against her coat, almost sobbing. She’s alive.

What do I do?

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