Stormswept
“Look how dark it is.”“We’ll take Dad’s big torch.”“Mum and Dad are going to notice soon. You keep going out and not saying where.”“They won’t if we’re careful. He can’t spend another night being hungry. I thought you wanted to help him get better.”Jenna sighs and gives me a long-suffering look, as if I’m failing to comprehend something that’s obvious to her. It is one of her most annoying looks.“It’ll only take an hour,” I snap. “I’ll go on my own if you won’t come.”But Jenna knows me too well.... She knows that I’ll be afraid of the soft, solid dark. Tonight the sky is covered in thick, heavy cloud and there’s not a trace of moonlight or starlight. There isn’t a street light on the whole of the Island, and once people close their shutters the blackness is complete.“You won’t,” she says with irritating sureness.“Yes, I will! You always think I won’t do things, even though today I—”I break off. There hasn’t been time to tell Jenna about going to Ingo and meeting Eselda.MoreLess
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