A Thief in the House of Memory by Tim Wynne-Jones

Author:Tim Wynne-Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd.
Published: 2006-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

The House of Stone

THE HOUSE looks like Steeple Hall, but when he opens the great front door the interior is made entirely of stone. The Oriental rug in the hall is stone, the stairs are stone, the chandelier is stone. Even the keypad of the new alarm by the vestibule door is made of stone. He punches in the code numbers, which he knows, somehow. He makes his way down the front hall towards his grandfather’s study. The corridor is a great deal longer than he remembers it being, and it’s tilted so that he feels all the time as if he’s falling.

Falling into the dark.

What light there is comes from thin cracks between the great slabs of polished granite. Above his head, statues stare down at him from the top of stone bookcases.

“Lindy?” he calls, and his voice echoes all around him.

It is so cold that he shivers uncontrollably. He is in his pyjamas. He wishes he had thought to dress warmly. He wishes he did not feel so alone. He wishes he had never set out on this journey.

He hears whispering and follows the sound.

“Mom?” he calls.

The whispering grows until it seems to engulf him. Finally he stands outside a door to a room he did not know was there. He tries the handle but it will not budge. He presses his ear against the cold, polished surface. He hears his fathers voice.

“Lindy was beyond caring long ago.”

He hears whispering farther down the corridor. At another door he stops to listen.

“She never dreamed she was going to rot away in a huge empty house in the middle of nowhere.”

He moves on.

“Dec?” someone calls. “Dec!”He runs until he comes, at last, to the door at the very end of the corridor.

“Mom?” he whispers.

“Dec,” she says breathlessly. “Get me out of here, before it’s too late.”

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