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Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780356507200

I jerked upright with a gasp. I was lying on the floor next to the crystal mound and I looked around wildly. There was no sign of the boy, or of Anne. Clutched in my hand was a shard of amethyst, small but heavy. My fingers were wrapped around it, and when with an effort I made them release, I could see white and red lines where the crystal’s edges had sunk into my hands. The floor was smooth and cold.

Movement in the futures. Someone was coming and I twisted around, staring at the corridor from which I’d entered. I saw who it was going to be and sudden fear spiked through me.

A figure appeared, tall and slender, with shoulder-length hair. ‘Alex?’ Anne said. Her eyes went down to the shard of crystal in my hand. ‘Did you find one too?’

I opened my mouth to speak, but no words came out.

Anne looked down at me, frowning. ‘Alex?’

I took a breath, then another. I looked at the futures, searching for any sign of danger, and found nothing. But then, I hadn’t seen any danger before either, and my divination wasn’t working the way it should be—

‘What’s wrong?’

I tried to speak, failed, cleared my throat and tried again. ‘Nothing. I’m fine.’

‘You don’t look fine,’ Anne said doubtfully. She walked towards me, reaching out a hand.

I flinched. It was only a small movement, but Anne stopped dead. I scrambled to my feet. ‘I’m all right.’

‘I could check—’ Anne began.

‘No,’ I said quickly. All of a sudden I didn’t want Anne touching me. ‘It’s okay.’

Anne was looking at me. She didn’t come any closer and there was a puzzled, hurt look in her eyes. I dragged my gaze away. ‘What did you find?’ I said.

‘This,’ Anne said, and I knew what she was going to show me before she held it up. A shard of crystal, a dark purplish-black, smaller than the one I was holding but similar in its design …

‘Alex?’ Anne asked when I didn’t speak.

I didn’t want to look; just a glimpse of the dreamstone brought the memory back. ‘Yeah.’

‘Don’t you want to check?’

‘It’s what we’re looking for,’ I said. I didn’t meet her gaze. ‘Good job.’

‘I know you said to stay together,’ Anne said. ‘But it felt as though something was calling me, and I knew it’d be …’ She frowned, paused. ‘Did something … happen when you found that?’

I opened my mouth, began to answer, then found myself looking into Anne’s eyes. Reddish-brown, just as they had been before, and a shiver went through me and suddenly the thought of telling her about it was more than I could face. ‘It’s fine,’ I said. ‘Let’s get out of here.’

Anne gave a dubious nod, stepping closer. She was watching me closely and I managed not to pull away this time, but I could feel her eyes on me.

We stepped through into bright, peaceful light. The multicoloured sky of the Hollow was all around us and the branches of the great tree hung overhead.

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