Nageira (2006)
“The question comes from nowhere, burning its way through my sleep like a comet. I open my eyes to see a young girl staring down at me. My dream—and it was a pleasant dream, full of warm, safe forests carpeted with pine needles, whispering leaves, and the scent of tree bark and wildflowers—fizzles away into nothing.
The girl is holding a candle in front of her face. Her hair is golden, her eyes green. There was a time when I used to see such a creature gazing at me from the mirror of my parents’... house in the Pale.
I know this must be Emma Rose.
“That’s curious, isn’t it?” she continues, while I push myself up from the mattress. I see there is a smaller child next to her. “Everyone else has been frantic.” Emma tilts her head to one side. “What do you think about that, Mary? You and I, Mother and Father, the whole settlement, have been running around, searching and calling, driving ourselves mad while this old woman sleeps in her clothes on her stinking bed.”
Mary looks up at her older sister, her eyes as wide as saucers.MoreLess
The girl is holding a candle in front of her face. Her hair is golden, her eyes green. There was a time when I used to see such a creature gazing at me from the mirror of my parents’... house in the Pale.
I know this must be Emma Rose.
“That’s curious, isn’t it?” she continues, while I push myself up from the mattress. I see there is a smaller child next to her. “Everyone else has been frantic.” Emma tilts her head to one side. “What do you think about that, Mary? You and I, Mother and Father, the whole settlement, have been running around, searching and calling, driving ourselves mad while this old woman sleeps in her clothes on her stinking bed.”
Mary looks up at her older sister, her eyes as wide as saucers.MoreLess
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