That is, as normal as you could call it when you felt ten times happier than usual, and ten times luckier, and maybe fourteen times more pleased with yourself than you ever had before. It was normal in that Eric was sitting in Jimmy’s living room instead of sprinting full-tilt here and there or p...
Things are not perfectly okay. I wish I could tell whether it’s my fault or Kelsey’s. I can’t decide whether to feel guilty or not. Daddy sticks up for Kelsey, of course. I mean, he sort of keeps explaining her to me. I listen too. I want her explained. But the things he explains never seem exact...
Behind them was Tam, who stopped dead at sight of her, then rushed down the slope in reckless leaps.“You’re here! Eh, thank the good Lord! I was on me way to the smithy, goats and all—”She broke in, with a wary glance toward the brow of the hill behind him. “Where’s Bruman?”“Dead to the world, yo...