Black Knight by Pike Christopher

Author:Pike, Christopher [Pike, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781442467347
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2014-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAD WAKES ME IN THE morning in the Field. Because I’ve slept on a stone floor, I sit up feeling stiff as a board. A torch burns in the corner of our cave and I notice Chad’s forgotten to shave. Oh, right, I remind myself. They don’t hand out razors in the Field.

“How did you sleep?” Chad asks.

“You’d be amazed,” I reply, thinking of the whole day I lived while the rest of them were unconscious. “How’s Ora doing?”

“He’s healed. He’s out scouting with Marc.”

“What? That’s impossible,” I gasp. I healed Ora as best I could before we recrossed the river, and then again back at our cave. But the best I could do was stop the bleeding and take away some of his pain. The last I saw him, before I dozed off, the wound to his shoulder blade was still ugly.

“Li worked on him when you were asleep,” Chad says. “None of us ever saw anything like it. The wound healed right in front of us. Ora doesn’t even have a scar.”

Li’s a witch! Fantastic!

“Where’s Li right now?” I demand.

“Just outside. Keeping watch.”

“Tell her to come here. I need to talk to her alone.”

“Gotcha,” Chad says, jumping up. I’d filled him in as best I could about my true identity while I was working on Ora—Marc backed up my miraculous claims—but I know Chad still has a million questions. He’s a good guy, though, very mature. He never gets impatient and he doesn’t mind taking orders from me.

Li appears a minute later and sits beside me, not far from the torch. I ask how long Ora and Marc have been gone.

“An hour. They said they were heading for the hot spring to cook more fish,” Li replies, her eyes tired.

“How are you feeling? Are you getting enough to eat?”

Li shrugs. “The fish helps but I’m missing my meds more than I thought I would. I’m dizzy and have a pounding headache. I just want to close my eyes and sleep.”

“Maybe you should.”

“That could be dangerous.”

She’s talking about falling into a diabetic coma. Her condition is more serious than I realized. Yet she was able to heal Ora. I’m missing something here.

“I heard about what you did for Ora. Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Tell you what?”

“That you’re a witch.”

Li shakes her head. “I’m not a witch.”

“Are you saying you don’t experience another world when you go to sleep at night?”

She looks at me funny. “What other world? Are you talking about Seoul?”

“No. Let’s back up a minute. How long have you been able to heal?”

She hesitates. “Since Lula died.”

I remember her sister had been tortured to death in a North Korean prison. Li had told me she had been in the room when her sister died. A bizarre idea suddenly pops in my head.

“Li, you said Lula was your twin sister. Was she an identical twin?”

“Yes.”

“What I’m going to ask next—please forgive me for forcing you to remember such a painful time. But you said you were close to Lula when she died.

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