The Body Electric by Beth Revis EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Beth Revis
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”Don’t ever forget how much I love you,” Dad says.
I dig my toes into the warm Mediterranean sand. The water is a
perfect blue, speckled with the white foam of cresting waves. When
I tilt my head back, I can feel the warmth of the sun, a gentle sea
breeze lifting strands of my short, brown hair and blowing them into
my face.
But none of this is real.
“It is real!” I shout.
Dad turns around, a look of surprise on his face. “What was that,
Ella?” he asks.
“Nothing,” I mumble.
“Are you ready to come in, you two?” My mother stands at the
top of the beach, near the road, her cupped hands amplifying her
voice.
“Not just yet,” Dad says, winking at me. He takes off at a run,
kicking sand on me as I jump up, chasing after him. I can hear my
mother laughing behind us. The sandy beach gives way to pebbles
and bigger rock formations, and soon neither of us is running as we
pick our paths through wave-worn rocks. Mom and the road and the
beach are far behind us. It’s just me and Dad and the sea.
It’s fake.
“No!” I say, just as my bare feet slip on the wet rock. I crash
down, pain shooting up my scraped shin. Dad turns back and helps
me up.
“Are you okay, Ella?” he asks.
No. NO.
“Yeah,” I say.
“We shouldn’t run,” Dad says. “We should take the time to
appreciate this area. You know where we are, right?”
I hadn’t recognized it before, but now that Dad says it, I do
know where I am. From the cliff above us extends a giant arm of
rock, arcing over the sea and then reaching back down into the
water. The rock formation has created a perfect arch—large enough
to fit a house under—through which the sea flows. Waves crash
against the sides of the rock, sending up salty sea foam.
“It’s the Azure Window,” I breathe, staring at this natural
wonder.
It’s not. Not really.
“Eyes are the window to the soul, Ella, don’t forget that,” Dad
says. He’s not looking at me; he’s watching a girl swimming out in
the ocean, so far away from us that I cannot recognize who she is.
“I… I thought the Azure Window was destroyed,” I say slowly.
“In the Secessionary War. The bombs broke the arch, the rock
crumbled into the sea.”
As I say the words, the natural bridge of rock cracks with an
earsplitting snap. First pebbles, then boulders fall from the arch. The
water churns with the destruction. Giant clouds of dirt and debris
mar my vision of the crumbling rock formation. When the dust finally
clears, there is nothing there but a pile of rocks and swirling, dirty
water.
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