Nightbird by Alice Hoffman

Author:Alice Hoffman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780385389600
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-03-10T06:00:00+00:00

We finally found a clue in the cellar of Mourning Dove one drizzly afternoon when we were exploring the cottage, looking for more old cookbooks. We pushed open a heavy storeroom door and there it was, as if it had been waiting politely for us to find it all this time. In the beam of our flashlight we spied something white on the ground, near a coal bin that hadn’t been used in decades. It was a crinkly, translucent piece of paper. The edges were yellow and we were afraid the paper might fall into shreds if we held it for too long.

Cellars are strange places, where people tuck away bits and pieces of the past, but the last thing we expected was to find a message. Clearly, no one had been down here for years, unless you counted spiders. There were dozens of them.

We held up the flashlight and began to read.

What begins one way must end the same way.

The letters AE were scrawled beneath this line.

“Agnes must have written this,” Julia said.

It had to be part of the enchantment.

“Maybe she’d had second thoughts about the curse,” I said, “and wanted to make sure there was a way to end it.” We studied the line she’d written, and finally it hit me. To undo a spell you needed to re-create it; then it would unwind, like a spool of thread.

“We have to find out exactly what she did.”

We shook hands and agreed.

We would end the curse the way it had begun.

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