The Island Child by Molly Aitken

Author:Molly Aitken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate Books

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I found Aislinn later in the orange evening light, staring out to sea. She was alone, without Etain. She came up to me and grasped my wrist.

‘Come with me now,’ she said. ‘If we go home, we’ll be happier.’

‘I’m Oona,’ I said. ‘Not Felim.’

‘I know who you are. You want to leave the island. Now’s your chance.’

‘I’m sorry for all that’s happened to you, Aislinn.’

‘You don’t know my son,’ she said fiercely.

‘No. I’m sorry.’

She blinked at me and peered at my face as if it was for the first time.

‘These are not my people,’ she said.

‘So why did you stay?’

‘For him.’

‘For Liam?’

She smiled and turned back to the water.

I left her, and the memory of the cold grasp of her fingers on my wrist clung to me until I fell asleep that night.

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