Giften by Leyla Suzan

Author:Leyla Suzan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Life in a community isn’t simple; you worry about your kids, the weather, this year’s harvest. We have only one thing to think about: we rescue Giften. If we’re lucky enough to find a MAG or two on the road, we deal with them too. We’re focused. Mixing our lives with yours, staying in one place, making friends with nons? In no time we’d be worrying on who is and isn’t pulling their weight come harvest time. And to hell with the Giften.

Eshe, Sanctuary

Gathered around a small fire we talked into the night. I told the twins about Graylings, about the Circle, about Dad. We told them of the Circle’s plans to attack the Base, to free the City and the North of MAGs for ever. They asked question after insistent question until they ran out and stopped talking altogether. Their eyes on the flames, the twins sat in silence. Gone was the confidence, and in its place a kind of sadness. They had picked up Giften from Graylings in the past. They knew Salvage Sam. In those long minutes, with only the distant sound of waves splashing onto the shore, part of me hoped they would refuse, once more, to take us to the Island.

Seb and Stace and I would head for the City, find Dev and, with the Circle, we’d make a plan to rescue Dad. This was better, I decided, feeling a little buoyed. I didn’t want to tell the story of Graylings, of Dad’s ambush again and again to the Sanctuary. I didn’t want to leave the mainland at all.

“Zan needs to hear this,” sighed Annis finally.

My heart sank and kept on sinking until Stace reached across and squeezed my shoulder. One step at a time, her eyes told me. We made a promise; we have a job to do. I had to admit that I didn’t much like the idea of telling Ian that we never even made it onto the Island.

“She does,” Alia said, “so it’s down to you, Noah. You explain everything to her, the second we land. Don’t give her a chance to get all het up about the others. The nons.”

Noah didn’t answer and instead looked at me. The fire was dying and we were all tired. I wished I was already asleep.

“What?” I said. In the firelight he looked older, like a man. But then he grinned and the dip in his cheek appeared. He was just a boy.

“Ruthie will tell her. She convinced you, didn’t she?”

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