Caitlin R. Kiernan by Daughter of Hounds
Author:Daughter of Hounds
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-10T13:32:47+00:00
âWhy do you have yellow eyes?â the boy asked, and Emmie told him she didnât know why, that theyâd just always been that way, and she didnât have any idea why. Sheâd been asked the same question lots of times, and sometimes sheâd been taunted and called namesâyellow eyes, yellow eyesâlots more times than she could remember or cared to ever try. Sometimes, she made up elaborate stories to account for her yellow eyes, or told whoever was asking or bullying her that she had a contagious disease, like hepatitis or the plague, and they really shouldnât come too close. That was usually enough to make them leave her alone. But the day that this boy askedâwhich was the last day she went to the public elementary school on Camp Street, the last time someone asked before Deacon and Sadie finally moved her to the Wheeler School where hardly anyone ever asks about her eyesâthat day, she didnât feel like lying, so she just told him the truth, that she didnât know why her eyes were yellow.
âI used to have an old tomcat with yellow eyes,â the boy said. âMaybe youâre part cat.â
âIâm not part cat,â Emmie replied. She was waiting out front, sitting on the stone front steps of the school waiting for Deacon to show up and walk her home. âI have yellow eyes, but Iâm not part cat.â
âMaybe your mamaâs a cat,â the boy said.
âMy motherâs dead. She was a paleontologist, not a cat,â Emmie told him, wishing that Deacon would hurry up or that the boy would get bored and find someone else to pick on.
âMaybe they just told you she was dead. Maybe they didnât want to tell you she was really a cat. Maybe theyâre ashamed to have half a cat for a daughter. Do they glow in the dark?â
âDo what glow in the dark?â
âYour eyes, dummy.â
âLeave me alone,â Emmie said, though she knew that he wasnât going to stop until someone made him stop.
âThat would make you a monster,â the boy said, âif your mama was a cat. Maybe they donât want you to know youâre a monster. Maybe they think if you knew, youâd kill yourself or something.â
âLots of animals have yellow eyes,â Emmie said. âNot just cats. Lots of animals have yellow eyes.â
The boy smiled and sat down on the step next to her. âYeah? So maybe she wasnât a cat. Maybe she was one of those other animals,â he said. âBut youâd still be a monster, because normal people donât have yellow eyes or animals for mothers.â The boy was fat, a year older than she was, and he had a short, piggy sort of a pug nose.
âMaybe your mother was a sow,â Emmie said, and the boy asked her what the hell a sow was. When Emmie told him it was a mama pig, he called her a freak and a retard and kicked her in the ankle.
By the time one of the teachers was able to pull her
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