Jango by William Nicholson

Author:William Nicholson [Nicholson, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Seeker walked at great speed, thinking no thoughts of any kind, until he became aware of an ache in his stomach. He thought at first that it was hunger. But then he knew that it was the other kind of emptiness.

So I miss her already, he told himself.

Without intending it to, the image of Morning Star formed in his mind. Her eyes were looking at him intently, and her face was pretending to be blank, while in fact she was laughing. She had that sort of a face. People thought she was plain-looking, because they didn't see how she disguised her real thoughts. But he saw. He could tell from the crinkles in the corners of her eyes, and from the twitching of her mouth. Then out would come some pointy jabby little remark, which showed just how much she did understand what was going on—which was almost everything.

She's my friend. Nothing to be sad about there. She'll go on being my friend whatever happens.

But the ache got worse.

Nothing is dependable, he told himself. Nothing lasts.

So in a little while he was able to continue on his journey in a calmer frame of mind.

***

The line of ancient stones by the side of the road grew higher as he went, and in time took the form of a wall. The wall had evidently been substantial in some former age, for here and there its crumbling upper sections rose far above his head. Now brambles climbed over the granite blocks, and grasses grew from old mortar, and at the wall's feet lay strewn the rubble of stones that must once have been part of an even higher rampart.

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