Ottilie Colter and the Withering World by Rhiannon Williams

Author:Rhiannon Williams [Williams, Rhiannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781743586778
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2020-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

The birds woke Ottilie just before dawn. She was no stranger to sleeping on the ground, but it had been a long time since she’d had to deal with the stiffness. Leo was leaning against Maestro’s side. He was pale, possibly from broken sleep. Ottilie knew that look in his eyes, knew the way his jaw was set and his fingers were clenched. He was nervous. She tried to shoot him a smile, but couldn’t quite manage it.

Leo dug into the food bag and tossed Ottilie an apple. Gully yawned and sat up beside her. She passed him the apple and he screwed up his face.

Ottilie pressed it harder into his hand. ‘Eat it or you’re not coming,’ she said.

‘Fine,’ Gully croaked, tearing a shred of the red skin off with his teeth.

Skip wandered over from the river with an armful of filled waterskins.

Leo was staring at Maeve, and Ottilie followed his gaze. All around her, the fallen leaves were lifting a little off the ground and floating back down with her breath. It was mesmerising. So peaceful. Ottilie watched the leaves lift and fall, breath after breath, and wished she didn’t have to wake her.

Maestro appeared at Leo’s shoulder. His ears flattened forwards. He reached tentatively with his paw, making a vague swatting motion, then lunged forwards, crushing the leaves with his two front paws. Maeve woke with a yelp. She looked up at them all and narrowed her eyes. ‘What?’

‘You were making the leaves dance,’ said Gully, grinning while he picked at the apple.

‘Shouldn’t we be going?’ she snapped, clearly trying to shift the attention away from anything strange she may have been doing in her sleep.

Silence fell. They had to go. There would be no more stopping. They would fly directly north – over Wikric, along the River Hook – straight for the iron coffin buried beneath the sunnytree.

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