The Dark Secret 4 by Tui T. Sutherland

Author:Tui T. Sutherland [Sutherland, Tui T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Speculative
ISBN: 9780545349215
Google: rGhYmwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0545349214
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2013-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

“Two doors past the library,” Fatespeaker muttered. “Something about a council chamber.” She paused at an intersection, looking down both tunnels and pressing her claws together.

“I think I remember where the council chamber is,” Starflight said. He’d been trying to create a map of the fortress in his head every time they left the dormitory. “That way, if I’m right.” He pointed.

“Then we go this way,” she said. “I think we’ll pass the library this way.”

“Library,” Starflight echoed, finally hearing what Deathbringer had said. “There’s a library! Fatespeaker! Have you seen it? How many scrolls do they have?”

“Like a million,” she said.

“A million!” Starflight felt momentarily faint, thinking of a million scrolls he’d never read. It would be just like his dream.

“That wasn’t a real guess,” Fatespeaker said, stopping to give him an amused grin. “I just meant ‘lots,’ really. I didn’t try to count them.”

“Lots is exciting, too,” Starflight said. He felt a little silly getting so excited over scrolls. But there had never been enough of them under the mountain. He’d read the same ones over and over and over again. Something new … something with more answers, more of the information he needed … that would be everything.

“Here it is,” Fatespeaker said, pausing at a tall open archway.

Starflight peered inside, his heart pounding. The room was cavernous, even bigger than the council chamber. Instead of coals lying open in wall niches, here the light came from fire that was carefully trapped in metal globes and kept away from the scrolls. Square nooks were carved out of the wall, all the way up to the ceiling, and in each square there were between three and six scrolls, neatly rolled and labeled and organized — organized! — with a mark next to the square and a large scroll rolled out on a main table as a catalog. He could see how it worked in the first glance and his talons ached to rush inside and start reading.

“You are so cute,” Fatespeaker said. “Look at your face — like someone just opened up a giant treasure box and it’s all for you.”

That was exactly how Starflight felt, looking at all these scrolls. He took a tentative step inside and Fatespeaker immediately grabbed his tail.

“Oh, no you don’t,” she said. “We find the queen first. You can come back and moon over scrolls tomorrow.”

“If Morrowseer lets me,” Starflight said wistfully.

Fatespeaker dragged him away from the library and stopped two doors down, in front of a round stone room that was completely empty, with no windows and no furniture and only one niche for glowing coals. The wall opposite the door was a strange lattice of stone studded with diamond-shaped holes no bigger than ladybugs.

“I did see this room,” Fatespeaker said. “I just didn’t guess it was the throne room. Shouldn’t a throne room have a throne in it? Even if no one plans to sit on it?”

“Maybe there’s a throne behind the screen,” Starflight suggested.

“Hmm,” she said. “Still seems like it shouldn’t get to be called a throne room, then.

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