Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint

Author:Charles de Lint [Lint, Charles de]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780765307576
Google: 9SsDlO6LzfQC
Amazon: 076530757X
Goodreads: 186427
Publisher: Orb Books
Published: 1998-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

They walked down to River Park on the far side of Battersfield Road, the crow-girls bounding far ahead like eager puppies, unable—or perhaps simply unwilling—to contain their excitement. Kerry started to feel tired just watching them skip and dance about. She and Rory followed at a slower pace, more suited to the hot, sleepy day it had turned out to be.

Anyone seeing them might think they were a couple, Kerry found herself thinking and that made her blush. Luckily Rory was too busy describing the odd dream he’d had of her last night to notice.

When they got to the park, they found a shaded bench from which they could watch Maida and Zia skip about on the grass, tossing minuscule bits of toast into the air at the birds that came flocking around them. For some reason their antics didn’t disturb the birds at all and the pair soon had a busy cloud above them, darting and swooping about, snapping up the toast. It was a playfully odd sight—two small and exuberant punky-looking girls, surrounded by a crowd of feathery courtiers. Odder still, no one seemed to be paying the least bit of attention to them except for Rory and her.

“Do you believe in magic?” Kerry asked suddenly.

Rory gave her a confused look. “What do you mean by ‘magic’?”

“Well, like Maida and Zia. They’re magic to me. You can almost believe them when they say that they’re crows.”

“They said that?”

“Well, not exactly.” Kerry had to search for the word. “I think Maida said they were corbæ. Annie, too, except she’s a blue jay.”

“I don’t know about that,” Rory said. He spoke slowly, as though choosing his words with care. “But I do know that they’ve looked around fourteen in-all the years I’ve known them.”

“They don’t look fourteen to me. They act like they’re fourteen—or even younger.”

“And Maida told you that they were really birds?”

Kerry shook her head. “It was more like they could look like certain birds. Or that they were the”—this time the word came more easily—“corbæ equivalent of certain birds. Crows, blue jays.”

“Of course, this is the crow girls we’re talking about,” Rory said. “Who eat jelly beans for breakfast and claim to live in a tree.”

“But what if they do? What if there really is something magical about them?”

Rory gave her a sharp look. “Something happened to you with them, didn’t it?”

Kerry wasn’t sure how to reply. To explain Maida’s healing touch meant she had to drag out all the old baggage and place it here on the bench between them. She’d lose the chance for it to be the way she’d imagined it could be yesterday—that she could simply invent who she was and that was how everybody would take her. At least it wouldn’t be like that with Rory anymore.

“It’s kind of hard to explain,” she said.

Rory nodded. “That’s okay. You don’t have to tell me.”

“It’s not that, it’s just …”

She sighed. This was so hard. It wasn’t at all the kind of thing she could talk about easily.

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