New Lands (THE CHRONICLES OF EGG) - Plot & Excerpts
It was so steep that moving fast was easy. The hard part was staying on my feet. Trees and branches and roots and holes zoomed by in a blur. FASTER. One wrong step, and I’d break an ankle. That wouldn’t be the worst of it. If I fell, they’d catch me. I could hear branches snapping behind me. The others were up ahead. I couldn’t raise my eyes from the ground long enough to get a fix on them, but I knew Guts and Millicent had gotten a head start on me. I caught a glimpse of Kira’s pack, bouncing on her shoulders. That meant the noise behind me was a slaver. FASTER— I hit the side of a hole with my foot and nearly went down. It hurt. I tried to take shorter steps so I wasn’t landing so hard. My shoulder caught the side of a tree. That hurt more. I could still hear the slaver. He was gaining on me. The ground began to flatten out. We were almost to the bottom of the hill. The trees grew thicker—and then, almost in an instant, they were gone. We were on the valley floor. Open land in every direction.
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