Skyborn by Sinead O'Hart

Author:Sinead O'Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

All Bastjan knew was the rocking of the world and the animal stench and the bursting, burning pain in his head.

Things came and went, like he was slowly opening and closing his eyes.

Nothing he saw or heard made any sense.

Voices. Voices he knew.

“How much longer?”

“Ahyuk, not too far now, sir, just down this lane, an’ then…”

“… has to work, Hubert. I won’t let the circus fail. Not while I’m in charge.”

“I know, Mr Quinn, sir. I know.”

“As soon as the boy is out of the picture, we’ll leave for London. The airship will be ready, with any luck. We’ve got to reach the island before…”

Then all was darkness, for longer than Bastjan could name.

Suddenly, his head whacked painfully off a strange, hard surface. He moved one hand over it. Boards? Rough wood? Everything smelled different. He could hear birdsong. He opened his eyes, but all was blackness.

“Ahyuk. Ahyuk.” The sound was so familiar.

“Hubert,” Bastjan tried to say. His voice sounded like he had cloth in his ears.

There was a scrambling nearby and then the warmth of a face near to his, the feeling of breath on his cheek. The smell of whiskey and sweat and animal dung. The smell of home. “Lie still, lad. Ahyuk. You’ll be all right. You’ll be minded here and you’ll be fed, an’ everythin’ will work out fine. Ahyuk.”

“Home,” Bastjan said, the throbbing in his head becoming unbearable.

“Best forget about it, boy. Ahyuk. Best for you, just to put it all away.”

Then the feeling of a warm, calloused hand on his forehead, stroking back his hair, and Hubert was gone.

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