The Dark is Rising 01 - Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

Author:Susan Cooper [Cooper, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General, Europe, Great Britain, Fantasy Fiction, Classics, Magic, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Action & Adventure, Legends; Myths; Fables, Family, Siblings, People & Places, Brothers and Sisters, Cornwall (England: County), Arthurian
ISBN: 9781416949640
Google: Y5tlS0gaX98C
Amazon: 141694964X
Publisher: McElderry
Published: 1965-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

Above their heads, from the top of the headland still out of sight, there came drifting down a faint ghostly call. ‘Whoo-oo.’

‘Oh,’ Jane said in relief. ‘Only an owl. Horrible, I couldn’t think what it was.’

Great-Uncle Merry still said nothing. They began to climb again. Then all at once they hesitated, as if by some unspoken agreement. A dark curtain seemed to have come down all round them.

‘What is it?’

‘A cloud’s come over the moon. Look. It’s only a little one.’

Like a puff of smoke the cloud drifted away from the face of the moon as suddenly as it had come, and the land and sea were silver again.

You said there wouldn’t be any cloud.’

‘Well, there isn’t much, only a few little ones.’

‘The wind has changed,’ Great-Uncle Merry said. His voice, out of his long silence, sounded very deep.

It comes from the south-west, Cornwall’s wind. It brings cloud sometimes, and sometimes other things.’

He went on up the hillside, and they did not like to ask him what he meant.

As they climbed after him more clouds came up, ragged and silver-edged in the moonlight; scudding swiftly across the sky as if another wind were up there, stronger and more purposeful than the gentle breeze blowing down into their faces over the slope.

And then, looming over the dark brow of the headland, they saw the outline of the standing stones.

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