To Ride the Wind (FOUR KINGDOMS DUOLOGY #1) by Melanie Cellier EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Melanie Cellier
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A flash of white caught Charlotte’s eye, unnaturally clean and bright
among the greens and browns of the forest. She turned to face it, but
it was already gone.
“Elizabeth!” A surge of unease in Charlotte’s stomach made her tongue
trip over her sister’s long name. “Odelia?”
She still remembered the childhood years when they had been Bettie,
Dellie, and Charli. But it had been many years now since her older sisters
had turned into prim young ladies who insisted all three use their full
names.
She called again, more loudly, but heard nothing in return. The silence
around her was deep—too deep for a forest in mid-afternoon. She opened
her mouth to call again but was silenced by a piercing scream.
Launching into motion, she sprinted toward the sound only to run
headlong into her middle sister. The two girls bounced away from each
other, Odelia falling while Charlotte just managed to keep her feet.
Her sister glared up at her from the forest floor.
“What is it?” Charlotte asked, too frightened to worry about Odelia’s
irritation. “Why did you scream?”
Odelia stood and brushed off her dress. “That wasn’t me.” Her voice
carried a note of superiority. “Elizabeth was the one who screamed.”
But Odelia couldn’t entirely hide the anxiety in her face as she glanced
back the way she’d come.
Charlotte sucked in a breath. “Is she all right?”
She started in the direction of the scream, but she hadn’t made it more
than three steps before her eldest sister appeared, stalking through the trees
with stiff dignity.
Charlotte raced to her side, grasping her arm. “Are you hurt?” She tried
to examine her sister, but Elizabeth shook her off.
“I’m fine,” she said shortly, glaring at Odelia. “I can’t believe you
abandoned me! I suppose you were hoping I would be eaten first, giving
you a chance to escape.”
Odelia turned pink but stuck up her chin defiantly. “Your legs work as
well as mine. It’s not my fault you froze.”
“Eaten?” Charlotte asked, impatient with their bickering.
Both turned on her with a synchronized movement, glaring at the
youngest. Charlotte winced. Elizabeth and Odelia might bicker at times, but
they were barely a year apart and had always formed a united front when it
came to her.
She sighed, but for once she was concerned enough not to back down.
“Is there a dangerous creature about? I thought I saw something among the
trees…” She trailed off, unable to think what predator might have been
responsible for that flash of white.
“It was an enormous bear,” Elizabeth replied in a small voice,
apparently subdued by the memory. “A white bear.”
“White?” Charlotte gasped. “I thought they only lived in the far
mountains! What was one doing down here in our valley?”
“As for that, who knows.” Odelia looked at Charlotte with narrowed
eyes. “But where were you?” She spoke as if she suspected her sister of
setting the bear on them.
“I saw a flash of white earlier.” Charlotte pointed toward a place
between the trees. “I couldn’t think what it might be.”
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