Arthur Quinn And The World Serpent - Plot & Excerpts
Class was well under way. Miss Keegan had taken his new essay with thanks when he arrived in the door with Ash and Will, and on the board she was now going over some geography homework from a couple of days ago. As she droned on about mounds and fjords and glacial formations, Arthur found himself being distracted by a strange smell. At first he couldn’t tell what it was but as it grew stronger he found the smell in his memory. The air reeked of dampness and mildew, age and a faint whiff of open sewage. He’d smelled it before: under the ground, along the dank River Poddle. He looked at Ash and Will, but they didn’t seem to have noticed and were both paying close attention to Miss Keegan’s words on the blackboard. He looked at the teacher. Her mouth was moving and her hands gesturing yet suddenly he couldn’t hear a word that was coming out. In fact, there was now total silence in the class. Total silence apart from a distant dripping sound. Drip-drip-drip-drip.
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