Expedition on the Tundra by StacyPlays

Author:StacyPlays
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Twelve

STACY SURVEYED THE ice spikes in the distance as she sipped on the piping-hot cup of huckleberry tea Addison had prepared for her. Does she want to go through them, Everest? The large wolf nodded, and Stacy noted a slight sense of trepidation in his movements.

The ice spikes looked . . . dangerous. They were impossibly large, craggy ice crystals that extended thirty or forty feet into the sky and looked as if they could break off and fall on them at any moment. There was also no way to see what dangers might await them once they entered the icy biome. It wasn’t like the open ice plains of the tundra where they had room to run to safety if there was another crack in the ice or if they stumbled into the den of a polar bear. They’d essentially be trapped in an ice maze. Stacy trusted Addison, but she would be lying to herself if she said she wasn’t worried.

“I’m just not sure it’s a good idea, Addi,” Stacy said as Addison walked up and sat in front of her. Tucker, meanwhile, came up behind Stacy to comfort her. He rested his nose on Stacy’s shoulder and Stacy reached up to pet him. Tucker could always sense if she was upset or worried about something. And he could always make her feel better.

“Where are we going anyway?” Stacy continued. “And why are we going there? You know something that you aren’t telling me, but I know it’s not your fault you can’t explain it.” Stacy desperately wished there was a way that Addison could communicate with her and tell her why she was leading them so far north. Stacy was beginning to wonder if it would have been better to set up camp somewhere for the duration of their time on the tundra instead of continuously running farther north—farther away from the taiga . . . and farther away from Page, Molly, and Milquetoast. Maybe that’s what is really bothering me? Maybe I’m homesick for the cave and my pets? And it’s upsetting that we keep traveling even farther away from them.

Addison took a long stick from the fire Basil was tending to and used the hot end to draw in the snow. She spent several minutes carving an intricate series of symbols, only a few of which Stacy recognized.

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