The Legend Begins by Isobelle Carmody

Author:Isobelle Carmody
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780375849220
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-01-21T22:00:00+00:00

When she woke next, it was late afternoon and she was hungry. Her leg felt so much better that she wondered if it had been less hurt than she had imagined. But when she pulled the poultice away, the bruising was dark purple and tinged with yellow, as if days had passed since she had hurt it, rather than just a few hours.

Ginger was still sleeping, only now he was lying rather comically on his back with his paws poking up into the air. Crow slept, too, so Little Fur limped quietly away, determined to find food. She had not gone far when she caught the delicious, earthy smell of mushrooms! She soon found a patch growing under an overhanging bush, and sat down at once to gorge herself. There was no point in gathering any for the others because they did not eat mushrooms.

It was then that Little Fur caught sight of the human dwelling. She had learned a great deal about humans during her journey, but somehow instead of satisfying her, this only made her want to know more. For instance, how exactly did a human become a greep? Brownie said that they were humans who were broken inside, while Crow claimed they were outcast humans, shunned by their kind and forced to live alone. Both Sly and Ginger said that they were rotten in the center, like a tree whose heartwood had gone black.

Little Fur came to the edge of a small grassy expanse, and gazed across it at the human dwelling. She knew that she ought to turn back, but she stepped from the long shadows into the sunlight and limped carefully over to a square of unmelting ice set in a gap in the wall of the dwelling. Part of her was amazed that she dared to do it, even though her nose told her there were no humans nearby. She wondered how Brownie would react when she told him what she had done. Then she smiled, thinking that she was as bad as Crow, admiring her own stories even before she told them.

She peered through the ice.

There was nothing at all inside. The humans who had lived here had taken all of their things with them when they went. Little Fur wondered what had made them leave and where they were now. Animals only changed dens or burrows because they had no choice, but she supposed that creatures as powerful as humans could do whatever they wanted to do.

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