Ghost Ship (2010)
“Sky patrol!”
Asa’s heart jumped. She leapt to her feet and glanced up the muddy slope at her younger brother, Rollo, who waved madly and pointed at the sky.
“I’m coming!” she yelled, pocketing in her damp skirt the colored stones she had been collecting. She sped away from the mud, up the slope, and onto the grass. A gull swooped overhead, and the heavy saltsmell of the sea stuck to her clothes. Breathless, she grabbed Rollo’s hand and kept running.
“Up there!” he said, and now Asa could see it on the horizon. A black shape against the pale morning sky: one of Emperor Flood’s fleet of balloons. They patrolled the skies, looking for traitors, searching out supporters of the deposed royal family. Especially the two remaining children of the royal family: Asa and Rollo.
They hurried up the hill, the grass scratchy under their bare feet.
“It’s coming too fast,” Asa said. “We’ll never make it back to Two Hills Keep.”
“The cave, then,” Rollo said.
The cave. How she hated it.
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