by Flavia Bujor
“Didn’t you ever come to see her before?” she asks.
“Once,” he says bitterly. “Let me see her,” he pleads.
The nurse thinks about it for a moment.
“Go on in,” she says gently, “but don’t be long.”
I don’t know if Eli will come. But I look at the sun in the palm of my hand and I believe. I believe in the impossible, I believe in my dream, in my vision of the future. I believe in Elyador. I’m still hoping. Simply hoping.
Death is nearby. Too bad. She’ll wait.
I’ll live. Because I have to. Because I want to. I’ve been dreaming. Now, I’d rather live, even if it comes to the same thing.
My dream gave life back to me. Now I must give dreams back to life.
Copyright
First published in France by Éditions Anne Carrière in 2002 as La Prophétie des Pierres
First published in Great Britain in hardback by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2004
First published in Great Britain in paperback by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2005
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Copyright © Flavia Bujor 2002
English language translation copyright © Linda Coverdale 2004
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EPub Edition © AUGUST 2010 ISBN: 978-0-007-37504-2
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ISBN-13 978 0 00 716114 0
ISBN-10 0 00 716114 X
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