Hook's Daughter by R.V. Bowman

Author:R.V. Bowman [Bowman, R. V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: R.V. Bowman

19

The Risk

“Rommy, Rommy.” The voice intruded into her sleep. A small hand pulled her toward wakefulness, jostling her rudely.

“Tired,” she mumbled. “Go away, Francie.” She tried to pull away from the voice and the hand.

A small head poked into the hammock opening and hissed louder this time. “Rommy! It’s Alice!”

Rommy blinked her eyes a few times and tried to sit up, but her bed was moving. A small figure crowded into the opening. A pair of blue eyes peered up into her face. Rommy shook her head and took in her surroundings. It was dark but a sliver of lavender moon faintly illuminated the inside of the cave.

It all came flooding back. Her Papa missing. Her mad flight to Neverland.

Finn’s betrayal.

Pan’s menace.

“Alice, what are you doing? Are you frightened?”

“We should both be frightened. That Pan fellow is off his chump for sure. We need to hook it.”

“Alice, I’d like nothing more than to get away from them both, and I agree. Pan isn’t, well, there is something not quite right about him. But even if my father is here, I don’t know where he is. We can’t go wandering around this island. There are flowers that eat things and mermaids that want to drown people. I don’t want to end up in a worse situation or drag you into any more danger.”

“It’s better to take our chances out there. Staying here is a bad idea. I know it here.” Alice pointed to her chest. Fear was etched on Alice’s face, and fear wasn’t something Rommy associated with the little girl.

“You really think it’s worse to stay than to leave?” Rommy asked. Alice nodded vigorously. Rommy poked her head out of the opening and looked around. The bottom of Pan’s hammock was visible, and a bare leg hung out of the opening. She craned her head and spotted Finn’s sleep sack. It swung gently, but there was no sign of him. A dim light glowed through the sides. The fairies must be in there with him, Rommy realized. Both boys’ beds hung between theirs and the entrance.

She pulled her head back. “We must be very, very quiet.” Alice nodded solemnly.

“I think we should stay away from the jungle, at least tonight,’ said Rommy. “Perhaps tomorrow, we can hide there if we need to, but I don’t think it would be wise to go there at night. Maybe we can follow that river, and it will lead to my father’s ship. If he’s even here, that is.”

Rommy slipped out of the hammock first and looked around in the gloom. She stared at Pan’s hammock and then Finn’s, straining her ears for any sounds of movement. After a moment, she beckoned to Alice. The little girl slid soundlessly from the opening. The two girls flew out of the cave and into the moonlit night.

They followed the river until they were out of sight of the cave entrance and then touched down. As Rommy landed in the grassy riverbank, it hit her that she didn’t even think twice about flying now.

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