Nothing Else But Miracles by Kate Albus

Author:Kate Albus [Albus, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2023-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

She didn’t slow down for at least ten blocks. As she crossed under the elevated train line just below Pearl, she got a stitch in her side and had to stop and breathe for a second.

A lady in a flowered dress stooped to check on her. “Are you all right, dear?”

“Fine, thanks,” Dory said. She took off again, past the turn for the ferry terminal, through the scrubby grass of Battery Park, and over the rubble that surrounded the Castle. A crowd had gathered. Big for this hour, when Battery Park was usually vacant. Big enough to block her view. She nudged people aside to get to her usual climbing spot and made it to the top of the ramparts. A man below shouted at her to be careful as she scrambled over the edge and rose to her feet, turning at last to face the harbor.

And there she was.

Libby was a spectacle.

She’d been shrouded in darkness for so many nights, the sight of it was startling. Her torch burned like an actual flame. And the patterned pulse of the lights in her crown was mesmerizing. Blink. Blink. Blink. The first three short. Beam. The last one long.

Dory stood there alone above the crowd. Breathless.

Again, the three short flashes, followed by the single long pulse of brilliance.

It wasn’t just a light show. Dory knew it in her bones. It was some kind of message.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

“What are you trying to tell me, Libby?” she whispered.

She didn’t have Pop’s binoculars, of course, but Dory’s eyes knew every inch of the statue’s toes, her gown, the book she held in her left hand.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

She looked at the statue’s right arm. The one holding the torch.

There were stairs in there, Dory knew. People used to be able to walk all the way up through the goddess’s shoulder, elbow, wrist. All the way into the torch itself. Then, back during the Great War, the Germans had bombed the munitions depot at Black Tom Island, only a couple thousand feet away, wounding Libby’s arm so badly that nobody’d been in it since.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

Nobody’d been in there in years.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

In decades.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

Dory’s heart swelled.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

A smile spread across her face.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

She knew another place nobody’d been in for a long, long time.

(Well. Almost nobody.)

Dory offered Libby a slow nod of understanding. Of gratitude. The Green Goddess was looking out for her, all right. What more evidence could you want?

Making her way down the wall and over the rubble, Dory headed north along the riverfront, her heart plunking the same pattern as Libby’s message.

Blink. Blink. Blink. Beam.

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