[While Kenzi and Taradiddle scoop up the treasure, Faye gently plucks the book from Cora's hands and opens it up. She starts reading aloud:]
I told Mrs. Henchal about Big Sister, but she doesn’t believe me. She just whooped me for fibbing. But I know Big Sister is real.
Most miserable day ever. Marcos the boy I liked, the one I told you about a few pages ago, is just like the rest only meaner. He lied when he said he would go to the Solstice Dance with me. He just stood there and lied. And Gracelle was there with him and everyone else laughing at me. I hate them all. I wish they all died. Big Sister says that they deserve it, but I’m so scared ... I wish my folks were still alive....
Everyone wants to kill me—even Mrs. Hench! I had to run. They say I’m a witch. And I think I am one too. I can move things and make fire. I’m evil....
I skinned my knee on some roots and was crying when Big Sister found me. She’s like this old lady (when you can see her), but she somehow reminds me of mom. She gave me this necklace with a big pearl —it’s real pretty —and she took me to her house in the swamp. It was real scary with the wolves and the blackbirds and all, but the scariest was her sister. She’s called Lonni and she’s real tall and pale like a drowned person. She has these teeth like....
Big Sister lives in a magic castle to the Northwest. She says that one day she will take me there.
[Pulling the book back, Faye just shakes her head.]
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I told Mrs. Henchal about Big Sister, but she doesn’t believe me. She just whooped me for fibbing. But I know Big Sister is real.
Most miserable day ever. Marcos the boy I liked, the one I told you about a few pages ago, is just like the rest only meaner. He lied when he said he would go to the Solstice Dance with me. He just stood there and lied. And Gracelle was there with him and everyone else laughing at me. I hate them all. I wish they all died. Big Sister says that they deserve it, but I’m so scared ... I wish my folks were still alive....
Everyone wants to kill me—even Mrs. Hench! I had to run. They say I’m a witch. And I think I am one too. I can move things and make fire. I’m evil....
I skinned my knee on some roots and was crying when Big Sister found me. She’s like this old lady (when you can see her), but she somehow reminds me of mom. She gave me this necklace with a big pearl —it’s real pretty —and she took me to her house in the swamp. It was real scary with the wolves and the blackbirds and all, but the scariest was her sister. She’s called Lonni and she’s real tall and pale like a drowned person. She has these teeth like....
Big Sister lives in a magic castle to the Northwest. She says that one day she will take me there.
[Pulling the book back, Faye just shakes her head.]
Jesus, this shit is creepy.