The Dragonfly Pool
The Dragonfly Pool
“The children dressed in silence—they had decided the night before that they would travel in their dancing clothes; the hats festooned with ivy gave some measure of disguise. If they looked mad and disheveled, all the better. They already had a reputation for being the sort of people it was best to keep away from, and they meant to keep it like that.
There was time only for Tally to whisper her thanks to the little girls who had started the fight on the hillside and saved the prince. They looked... smaller than ever, like sleepy butterflies in their flounced dresses, and it was hard to believe that they could have screamed so loudly.
Then the buses came, and the children piled inside.
They had been afraid of what would happen at the station—there had been no time to buy a ticket for Karil—but the sudden evacuation had put everything in a state of muddle and confusion. The stationmaster didn’t take tickets or examine passports—his instructions were to get rid of the foreigners as quickly as possible and, along with their friends from the other groups, the Deldertonians were pushed on to the train.MoreLess
There was time only for Tally to whisper her thanks to the little girls who had started the fight on the hillside and saved the prince. They looked... smaller than ever, like sleepy butterflies in their flounced dresses, and it was hard to believe that they could have screamed so loudly.
Then the buses came, and the children piled inside.
They had been afraid of what would happen at the station—there had been no time to buy a ticket for Karil—but the sudden evacuation had put everything in a state of muddle and confusion. The stationmaster didn’t take tickets or examine passports—his instructions were to get rid of the foreigners as quickly as possible and, along with their friends from the other groups, the Deldertonians were pushed on to the train.MoreLess
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