Authors: David Almond
Skellig (18 page)
I reached behind me but Mam’s hand wasn’t there. I looked back through the crowd and saw her and she smiled and held up her hand, telling me to stay there.
“What next?” said McNulty. “The fire or the chains or the …”
He fell silent as his eye met mine again. He leaned close.
“Help me, bonny,” he whispered.
Excerpt copyright © 2003 by David Almond.
Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Hodder Children’s Books.
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