Betrayal (2011)
“I watched him messing around until the fire started blazing, and let the events of last night filter through my mind. Our failed mission to find Neos’s final resting spot. The arrival of the wraiths, as if they’d been waiting for us. How I’d frozen when my friends needed me most, and how I’d finally unfrozen into a frenzy of destruction.
I groaned and lay back in bed.
Are you all right, mum? Nicholas asked.
I burrowed deeper under the covers. I’m fine. I just don’t want to go to school—and stop calling me “mum.”
Didn’t mean no offense, mum, he said, with a cheeky grin. I don’t think you’ll be going to school today, though.
My heart clenched in panic. Was someone hurt worse than I’d thought? Had the whole team not made it back? Why? What happened?
It snowed.
I glanced toward the window and saw little mounds of snow on the sills outside, and lines of sunlight glistening from the eaves. Omigod. Are those … icicles?
You never saw them before? Nicholas laughed in excitement.
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