Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan [Brennan, Sarah Rees]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-97996-5
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Kami summoned every drop of magic she might possibly still have left. It was like drawing down a bucket into a dry well, hearing it scrape the sides and clatter in the dust at the bottom. Her mother’s fingers bit into her arm, the sharp sudden pain drawing her attention.

“Don’t scream,” Mum murmured.

Kami understood. Jared and Ash had no magic; only Lillian had power, and she was not strong enough to stand against Rob with any certainty. Everyone else was helpless, and everyone else included Dad and, worse than that, Tomo and Ten. They could not put the boys at risk.

She could already feel Ash’s alarm, beating at her fragile calm like a battering ram into doors of glass.

Don’t come, she said. Don’t tell anyone, don’t help us. Keep going, say we’re fine. Make them keep going until you have my brothers somewhere safe.

“You didn’t think the house would be enough to pay for what you did?”

It appeared to be a rhetorical question. Rob did not have the air of someone looking for answers. He took a step toward them and Kami saw the new stiffness of the motion, the wince as he set down his bad foot. A smile curled Kami’s mouth without her mind giving permission, and Rob’s face darkened.

He walked forward, his leg dragging, shoe stuttering over the uneven cobbles. Kami knew it would do no good to run, and her mother was shaking too hard to do it anyway. Rob came closer and closer, and Claire’s grip on Kami grew tighter and tighter.

“Run,” Mum whispered.

“No,” Kami whispered back, and louder: “No. What do you want, Rob? You want everybody in this town to submit to you, to give you their tokens of obedience and your sacrifice. You thought my mother was one of the people who would do it, who lived to serve you. But she is more than you thought she was. Everybody in this town is more than you think. Nobody in Sorry-in-the-Vale will live or die to serve you anymore.”

Rob smirked at her. “I don’t want servants. But you’re right, I don’t want Claire’s ill-advised actions to give anybody ideas.”

He reached out a hand to them. Kami felt her mother flinch violently, her grip on Kami only getting tighter.

Kami shoved herself at her mother, directly into the path of Rob’s hand. She grabbed at his wrist, moved forward and past him, twisting his hand behind his back. She heard his shout of pain and the wolf launched itself at her. Her head cracked against the cobbles and her world was a nightmare of darkness and teeth and Ash screaming in her head.

She could feel the moment his resolve broke and he began to run back. She knotted her fingers into the rough fur at the wolf’s ruff and held it back for an instant, forced the snapping jaws and hot panting breath an inch away from her face, so she could twist her head and look across at her mother.

Rob was stalking through

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