Willow Moss & the Forgotten Tale by Dominique Valente

Author:Dominique Valente [Valente, Dominique]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, adventure, Childrens
ISBN: 9780062879462
Goodreads: 50494822
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

13

Feathering’s Return

Willow stared at her shadow miniature in the jam jar for some time. Every now and again, it seemed to shudder slightly. When she took her finger away, the smoke-like shadows shifted and turned once more into a purple iris with long, thin roots suspended in the air.

Why would Nolin Sometimes have left her this? What was it supposed to tell her?

Willow went to sit in the armchair by the window to think. But at some point she must have nodded off, despite herself, because suddenly there was a small flash of light, and Willow blinked awake. On the floor was the leaf-scroll. It was the message that had gone missing from her attic before she ran away from home! Surprised, she bent down to pick it up when suddenly the sound of the furlarms began to whine loudly throughout the treehouse.

‘Oh no!’ cried Oswin as she dashed towards them. Harold started to howl as well.

‘What is it?’ asked Sprig, starting awake too, his dark eyes wary yet sharp as he looked around in alarm.

‘I don’t know,’ whispered Willow, fear clutching at her throat. ‘The furlarms detect intruders, though.’

She looked up towards the window with a worried frown and saw something large, like a cloud, heading straight towards them in a sky that was turning pink with the dawn.

‘Maybe it’s whoever came for Sometimes … Maybe they’re coming back,’ breathed Willow, looking worried.

‘Oh, Osbertrude, a curse upon yeh, me greedy aunt!’ whispered Oswin, who’d climbed on to the armchair to see out of the window better.

Whatever was moving towards them at breakneck speed sparkled in the early-morning sunshine with a pearly blue glow, and Willow’s fear suddenly changed to delight.

‘It’s Feathering!’ she cried.

‘Feathering?’ asked Sprig, his eyes widening in sudden fear as the blueish cloud neared. He took a step back from the window, his outline seeming to shift from boy to raven then back to boy so fast it hurt her eyes. ‘Is that A DRAGON?’

‘Yes! C’mon,’ she said, pulling him along by his arm. ‘This is the best news – maybe he knows who’s taken Sometimes!’

Willow raced outside towards a large branch the width of a road, with Sprig following more slowly behind her. As the dragon came in to land, the force blew Willow’s hair back and she clutched on to a nearby branch.

‘Why, hello there, young Willow. We wondered if we would find you here,’ said Feathering in his deep, wind-rattling-a-window voice.

Willow dashed forward to greet the dragon, and saw to her surprise that Essential Jones, another of her friends who had helped to save the missing day, was on his back. A grin split her face as Essential jumped down.

‘Hi, Willow!’ the girl said with a big smile, pushing back her glasses. Her long dark hair was like a knotty helmet around her head, and her nut-coloured skin seemed to glow with health and excitement from the ride.

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