Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty

Author:Robert Beatty [Beatty, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2018-07-10T00:00:00+00:00

The man looked at her in surprise, but did not immediately try to kill her. He did not run for his killing-stick when he saw her standing there at the edge of the woods. He did not reach for the ax or pull out the knife he carried at his side. He did not rouse his dog.

He did not move in any way.

But she knew he saw her. She could see his striking, bright blue eyes staring at her intently as if he could not quite believe what he was seeing.

She stood a dozen steps away from him, but she felt the movement of his chest as he breathed slow steady breaths.

“You’re alive…” he said, his voice soft and low, but filled with a trace of amazement. “And you’ve come back to me…”

She did not speak, but she studied him, and she let him study her. And for the moment—for the both of them—that was enough.

Her heart beat in her chest as he looked at her. The quills on the back of her neck tingled.

This is my enemy, she thought. And he’s seeing me.

The man stood perfectly still, as if he knew that the slightest movement would scare her off.

When a breeze swept through the boughs of the trees, she stepped back, blended into the forest, and disappeared.

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