Wolf Notes and Other Musical Mishaps by Lari Don

Author:Lari Don [Lari Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780863158933
Publisher: Floris Books
Published: 2011-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

The noise of the police siren was drowned out by Lavender’s screams as they flew north.

“What’s wrong?” Helen found herself yelling at the distraught fairy. “What’s wrong with you?”

Lavender couldn’t answer. She just screamed so piercingly, loudly and constantly that Helen could hardly think.

Lee was muttering instructions to Sapphire. Past the screams, Helen had been dimly aware of the faery giving directions to Yann, left behind below the castle, as they took off over the sea.

Now they were flying over tiny dark islands, dotted with the fat wet forms of seals. Suddenly they landed on a glowing white beach.

“Coral beach,” Lee said briskly. “Will reflect light. Help you heal her. Easy for Yann to find in the dark.” He took a deep breath. “Now please make her stop!”

“But I don’t know what’s wrong! How can I fix her when I don’t know what’s wrong?”

Sylvie growled. Lee said, “Animals can’t tell you what’s wrong, but you and your mother fix them. We know you can do it.”

So Helen put her fleece on the rough white sand. Sapphire kindled a fiery light in her throat, while Helen laid the fairy gently on the fleece. On her back. Lavender shrieked even louder. Helen turned her onto her front. The screams lessened slightly.

She looked closely at the fairy’s back.

No blood.

No shards of glass sticking out of her tiny body.

What was wrong?

“Lee, do you have any healing magic, or any way of calming her down?”

Lee, with his hands over his ears, shook his head. Sylvie was whining, her ears flat to her skull, sliding on her belly further from the piercing squeals.

Helen looked again. Lavender’s wings didn’t look right. They emerged from her back at slightly different angles.

Oh no.

She remembered the moment she and the brownie had both jerked, playing a brief tug of war with the fairy. She had been holding Lavender’s arm; the dark brownie had been holding her wing. They had jerked in different directions.

Oh no.

Lavender’s wing was dislocated.

But which wing?

The right and the left wings were lying at different angles, but which was the correct angle and which was the wrong angle?

Helen closed her eyes, trying to remember exactly what had happened. Lavender had been facing forward. Helen had held her right arm, the brownie had held her left wing.

So the left wing was the one at the wrong angle. It had been wrenched out of its socket. To heal her friend and to stop this awful keening noise, Helen had to fit the left wing back in.

How did her mother do this? On an operating table, not a beach. With anaesthetic.

Helen had seen her repair a dislocation on an Alsatian. The dog had been unconscious while her mother manipulated the joint. Helen had held up an x-ray of the injured joint and a diagram of a healthy dog’s anatomy. Her mother had kept comparing the two, like doing a jigsaw puzzle while looking at the lid of the box.

Helen felt the fairy’s shoulders and the tops of her wings with gentle fingers.

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