The Hidden World (2013)
“But the child was lying there quite serenely, and didn’t stir. It was covered with a navy-blue winter overcoat, with two empty gloves dangling from the sleeves on tapes. Jessica’s mother used to do that when she was little, so that she wouldn’t lose them. She leaned closer, but she couldn’t tell if the child was a boy or a girl.
She didn’t know what to do. She couldn’t think why Grannie and Grandpa Willy would want to imprison a child up here in the attic – but what would they do to her if she told them that she had found it? She tried to hear if the child was breathing, but the cold-water tank was still filling up, and the gurgling of water drowned out everything. If the child was alive, how did it manage to sleep under all those blankets without suffocating? If it was dead, on the other hand, why wasn’t it rotting? Its skin was sallow but it was absolutely flawless, like an angel.
Jessica knelt beside the child and hesitantly held out her hand. Should she wake it up? After all, it h...ad been calling for help, hadn’t it?MoreLess
She didn’t know what to do. She couldn’t think why Grannie and Grandpa Willy would want to imprison a child up here in the attic – but what would they do to her if she told them that she had found it? She tried to hear if the child was breathing, but the cold-water tank was still filling up, and the gurgling of water drowned out everything. If the child was alive, how did it manage to sleep under all those blankets without suffocating? If it was dead, on the other hand, why wasn’t it rotting? Its skin was sallow but it was absolutely flawless, like an angel.
Jessica knelt beside the child and hesitantly held out her hand. Should she wake it up? After all, it h...ad been calling for help, hadn’t it?MoreLess
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