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- Author:Corinne Duyvis
- Language: English
- Genre: Sword & Sorcery Fantasy
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In the world of the Dunelands, Amara was sleeping.
Striding through the Walgreens aisles, Nolan wished he could do
the same—just curl up in bed, shut his eyes, and see nothing but the
insides of his eyelids.
No: see nothing but the insides of Amara’s eyelids. He hadn’t seen
his own in years.
If he hurried, he could buy the notebooks and get home before
Amara woke up. He stopped by the office supplies, adjusted his
backpack, and hunted the shelves for the right kind: hard-backed, easy to
stack, and with thick enough paper that his ink wouldn’t bleed through
when his pen paused at the same spot too long.
“Can I help you find anything?” A perky salesclerk appeared to his right.
Nolan offered a smile. Not quite his teacher-smile, but close—he didn’t
visit stores often enough to have a sales-clerk-smile. All these fluorescent
lights and shoppers made him uneasy. If something happened in Amara’s
world, he had nowhere here to hide. At least his school had bathrooms.
Sometimes he even got to use a teacher’s office. When the disabled kid said
he felt a seizure coming, teachers listened, if only out of fear that Dad
would threaten to sue them again.
“No, thank you.” Nolan drew back from the salesclerk. Another smile.
He fingered the straps of his backpack. “I’m doing fine. But thank you.”
He turned back to the notebooks. Amara would give everything she
owned for a single one of these. He ignored that thought—with Amara
asleep, this was the one time of day he could focus on his own world. Once
she woke, or when she started dreaming, all his inner peace and quiet would
fade.
Maybe he should pick up some pens, as well. He couldn’t risk running
out of ink.
The salesclerk crouched to rearrange some mixed-up kids’ sketchbooks.
Nolan zeroed in on the shelves, on the recent pop cover blaring from the
store’s speakers. Easier said than done. The music cut out every time he
blinked, replaced with Amara’s slow breaths and the quiet rustling of
sleepers in her inn room.
There. They’d moved his brand of notebooks to another spot. Nolan
raised his—
—get up!—
—it was just a snatch of a voice. Male. At first, Nolan thought it was
another shopper, maybe the radio.
It wasn’t. Amara had woken up. Nolan turned away from the salesclerk.
He needed to shut his eyes without the clerk worrying, get a second’s
glimpse of Amara’s world to see what was happening. The fluorescent glow
of the Walgreens faded into nothing—
“—this?” It was Jorn’s voice, as Nolan knew it would be. Long
fingers dug into Amara’s wrist. They were cold to her sleep-warm skin,
and strong, squeezing too tightly.
Jorn yanked her out of the alcove bed. Her blanket slid off, caught
by the hatch, and Amara stumbled on all fours onto the inn floor.
Splinters stabbed her knees and feet.
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