In the Woods
“I said at last. “They’ll catch us.” “No, no they won’t, not right away. We can hide here for a few weeks, no problem. It doesn’t have to be forever or anything—just till it’s safe. Once that school’s started, we can go home; it’ll be too late. And even if they send her anyway, so what? We’ll run away again. We’ll go up to Dublin and get Jamie out. Then they’ll expel her and she’ll have to come back home. See?” His eyes were shining. The idea caught, flared, spun in the air between us. “We could... live here,” Jamie said. She caught her breath in a long, hiccuppy shudder. “In the castle, I mean.” In the Woods 279 “We’ll move every day. Here, the clearing, that big tree where the branches do that nest thing. We won’t give them a chance to catch up with us. You really think anyone could find us in here? Come on!” Nobody knew the wood like we did. Sliding through the undergrowth, light and silent as Indian braves; watching motionless from thickets and high branches as the searchers clumped past.MoreLess
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