Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan

Author:Lois Duncan [Duncan, Lois]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 9780316134354
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Stop! Please, stop!” Kit held up a restraining hand. “I don’t want to hear the rest. It’s morbid. It sounds as though you’re dead.”

“I thought you’d like it,” Sandy said in a hurt voice.

“Well, I don’t. What’s happened to you, Sandy? We used to laugh so much together. Remember the jokes we used to tell and how we planned to short-sheet Ruth’s bed? We were going to have a party one night too, and sneak a lot of food up to my room and make it a midnight feast.”

“Do you still want to do those things?” Sandy asked in wonder.

“No,” Kit admitted. Somehow the plans that had sounded like so much fun in the early days at Blackwood now seemed childish and ridiculous. Sandy glanced down at the poem in her hands.

“Ellis doesn’t think it’s very good,” she said. “She doesn’t want me to submit it to a publisher or anything. She thinks we can do better.”

“You’re doing it again!” Kit interrupted in exasperation. “You’re talking about this—this dream person as though she were real!”

“Is she a dream?” Sandy asked slowly. “When she talks to me, it’s so sensible and right. I’ve been thinking, Kit, do you remember what Ruth was saying about all of us having various forms of extrasensory perception?”

Kit nodded.

“Well, what if I’ve used mine to tune in on somebody, a real person who is living somewhere in the world and has a mind that operates on the same wavelength that mine does. Is that impossible?”

“You mean you think that somewhere there really is a woman named Ellis?” Kit asked incredulously.

“Why not? She doesn’t have to be anywhere near here or even in this country. In fact, I have a feeling she isn’t in this country—the way she speaks and her references to things like moors and yew trees—she may live someplace like England or Scotland.”

“It isn’t possible,” Kit said. “People don’t communicate through dreams. They write letters or e-mails, they make phone calls—”

“Don’t yell,” Sandy said. “You’re making my head hurt. I can’t explain this, Kit. Ruth’s the one who’s the expert on scientific happenings. All I know is that Ellis is real to me, more real than any dream could be. Whether or not you like her poetry doesn’t matter. I like it, and I’m happy to be the one she communicates it to.”

Her narrow face was flushed with anger, and Kit felt her own temper flaring in response.

“You sound like a twelve-year-old who has a crush on a movie star! Except that with a movie star at least you can see her on the screen.”

“Shut up,” Sandy snapped. “I’m sorry I ever told you about Ellis.”

“You didn’t have to tell me. I heard you screaming, remember? You didn’t think this super poet was so great then!” Try as she would, Kit could not bite back the sharp words. “It’s this place, this terrible place! It’s doing something to you! You’re getting almost as crazy as Lynda!”

But Sandy had already turned on her heel and left the room, pulling the door shut hard behind her.

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