Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret by Liz Kessler

Author:Liz Kessler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Children's Books
ISBN: 9780763643744
Publisher: Candlewick
Published: 2009-01-10T10:00:00+00:00

My stomach growled. How long had I been here? I wished I’d at least had some breakfast before coming out. Too bad I’d forgotten the loaf of bread I’d bought for mom. I’d left it on the counter — I’d been too shocked, and too desperate to get out of that shop. I doubted very much that my new friends were going to provide a banquet for lunch.

I swam around Morvena’s room, looking out to the larger caves beyond the entrance. What was this place?

Rocky ledges and walls sprawled out all around, lined with crazy shapes. A church steeple at the top of a hill, a giant upside-down jellyfish, a wedding cake, an elephant’s trunk — all of them and more lay scattered everywhere, as though the caves had stolen a hundred random objects and turned them to stone.

I saw a tail farther down the murky darkness of the ledge and darted quickly away from the entrance. Someone was coming.

I hid in the darkness, peering out while I waited for them to pass.

And then they did. Just one of them. I watched as she swished past me.

Wait a minute! That wasn’t one of the sirens; that was —

“Shona!” I darted out from the darkness and joined her on the ledge.

“Emily!”

“You found me!” I said. Then I remembered about the sirens going to look for her. I grabbed her and pulled her inside. “Oh — or they found you!”

Shona tilted her head to stare at me. “Who found me?” she asked. “What are you talking about?”

“They haven’t found you, then?”

“Who haven’t found me? Em, you’re being really weird. I’ve just —”

“How did you get here?”

Shona’s eyes widened as they always do when she’s on an adventure of some sort. “Well, that’s the weird thing,” she said. “I didn’t even try. I just felt this really strong current pulling me along. It was swishy! Next thing I knew, I was whizzing downward, water gushing all around me.”

“Like an underwater waterfall?” I said. “Inside a well.”

“That’s it exactly! I was pretty scared at first, but then when I got to the bottom, I looked up and it had disappeared. I figure as long as I can find that spot again, we could swim out whenever we want to go.”

“Did you try it?” I asked glumly.

Shona shook her head. I was about to explain that it wasn’t going to be as simple as she thought when there was a noise outside the room. Someone was coming.

I grabbed Shona and swam over to the purple ferns in the corner. “Quick! Get behind here,” I said as the swishing noise came closer.

“Why?” Shona asked. “Em, what’s going on?”

“I’ll tell you in a minute,” I said. “Just —”

But it was too late. The sirens turned a corner and came into the room. It was Amara and Lorelei.

They spotted me instantly and swam over to me. “No luck so far,” Amara snarled. “What shall we do with this one in the meantime?”

Then Lorelei glanced sideways and spotted Shona. “Wait!” she said.

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