Sarah Driver - Storm

‘We can’t all go out there riding draggles. Someone would see!’ glooms Ermine.

I nod. But one girl . . .

Crow catches my eye and frowns. I smile at him, but it’s a proper beam by accident. Too late, I try to wipe the look off my face but he scowls. Then he puts his mouth close to my ear. ‘Gone and had a terrible idea, have you?’

I push him away, biting back my grin. Aye. And I’ll make you help me with it. I’ll need a lookout. Who better than a boy who can take the shape of a harmless crow?

I turn to Ermine. ‘Not if one girl took the journey. Alone.’ The thought makes fire stir behind my eyes and I have to breathe quick, my veins jumping with excitement.

‘ Not alone,’ says Lunda impatiently.

We look at her in surprise.

‘Haven’t any of you realised it yet?’ she says, voice bubbling with irritation. ‘Even if you got as far as the Frozen Wastes, the Fangtooths would sniff out a sea-creeper. But there’s one person at Hackles who’d be admitted into their territory, bold as daggers.’

I meet her eyes. ‘Axe-Thrower!’

Lunda bites the skin around her thumb, nods briskly.

‘But she’s a prisoner,’ says Pang. ‘She won’t be going anywhere.’

‘No, she won’t,’ replies Lunda. ‘Unless we break her out.’

Crow curses all over everyone’s shock.

But the hooks of Lunda’s idea dig into my skin. Cos what if the vision Sparrow had of me in a place of sleds and reindeer skin ent a destiny that will happen to me, but a destiny that I can choose for myself ? ‘That’s a flaming good idea!’

‘It’s too dangerous,’ warns Crow quickly. ‘Your da would never let you do a foolish thing like that.’

And there they are. The words that decide it. ‘Da’s not here,’ I whisper.

Lunda grins, eyes sparking. ‘Good girl.’

The spark leaps into my chest and sets my heart drumming against my ribs.

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