The Girl Who Lost a Leopard by Nizrana Farook

Author:Nizrana Farook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

There was an unceremonious splash as Amir fell through the waterfall into the stream beyond. Selvi smacked her head with her hand in exasperation and slipped back the way she’d come. She fled into the trees and up the path, climbing steadily away, remembering Amir’s words about letting the men find only him if they got caught.

When she was high enough to feel sure they couldn’t catch her, she watched what was happening below. She couldn’t hear what they were all saying but it seemed quite cheerful and Liyanage even looked as if he was laughing. Only Jansz was silent, studying Amir, who was chatting and waving his arms about.

She decided to wait for him, absolutely bursting to tell him what she’d heard. After a few minutes he turned up, soaking wet.

“What did you tell them you were doing?” she asked, unable to help herself laughing at him.

He grinned. “I said I’d forgotten a shoe last time I came swimming and I was looking for it when I fell in.”

“Did they buy it?”

“I think so,” he said as they walked on, his shirt stuck to his back. “Liyanage did, at least.”

“I noticed Jansz didn’t say much.”

Amir bit his lip. “I think he recognised me from when he saw me at my house. But that doesn’t mean anything, does it?”

“No,” said Selvi. “It doesn’t.” All the same, she was a bit uneasy. She didn’t want Jansz connecting the two of them. The last thing she wanted was for Amir to be in trouble too.

“Anyway, I have big news,” she said. “Did you hear that noise when we were behind the waterfall?”

Amir shivered in his wet clothes. “No? And why do you look so happy?”

They’d come to the track that led to his house. Selvi laughed, her heart soaring.

“Because I know where Lokka is!”

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