The Blind Wish by Amber Lough

Author:Amber Lough
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

ATISH AND I turned around to find Melchior sitting on the Diwan’s dais. He was leaning to the side, resting his head on one hand as though he was disappointed.

“As I said, I knew you’d come for Yashar. He didn’t want to leave with you, though, did he?”

I forced down every angry word that flashed in my mind. “Actually, I didn’t come to free him. I only wanted to see how he was doing. This could have been arranged if you’d—”

“Silence! You were told to leave him alone. He needs total isolation in this weakened state. He cannot be with anyone who cannot control her emotions, her fears, or her impulsive nature. And that means you above all, Zayele.”

“He is not your newest project!”

“He is not yours either,” he spat. Then he seemed to shimmer with anger and fire, and pointed at the doors. “Now get out of here, both of you, before you cause more harm.”

The doors blew open and we were thrown through them and onto the crushed rock outside. I picked myself up and brushed off all the bits and shards. I was going home.

—

I knew it was a bad idea, but the second it crossed my mind, I could not give it up. My mother, my adoptive mother, didn’t know where her son had gone.

Would she think he’d fallen into the river? Would she wonder if he had had enough of the way they’d treated him—they had made him wash the women’s rags!—or would she have that knot in her stomach like the one I had been carrying with me ever since I’d taken him with me to the desert?

Would she wonder if I had come back?

That was what had given me the idea: I could go back at any moment. I could go to Zab and tell her where he was. I could tell her all that had happened.

Atish walked me to my door, but we did not speak much along the way. I was grateful, because my mind was whirring with plans and worries, and it wouldn’t take much for him to figure out what they were. I couldn’t take him back to Zab. This was something I needed to do alone. I said goodbye before opening the door, and the moment he was out of sight, I stepped away from it.

There was no one out in the open this time of night, thankfully. I closed my eyes and wished myself home.

—

I delivered myself to the same place I’d brought Shirin and Atish, when we’d come to find Yashar. From there, I climbed carefully down the narrow goat trail to the bank of the river. It was dark, but the moon was full and helped me find my way.

With each step, an anxiety I hadn’t expected built up within me until, by the time I could see the village fires, my breathing was shallow and quick. A rush of thoughts flooded me. I should be there with my mother. I should be in the Cavern, pressuring Melchior to let Yashar go.

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