The Time of Green Magic

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Her lips tasted salty

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Question 2

Lately it had begun to have a sound to it, a soft echo when you opened the pages, like the ocean sound in a seashell.

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Question 3

He did it with such admirable cheerfulness and calm that very soon the injured ones stopped feeling like woeful victims and became instead very pleased with themselves, fine adventurers and heroes all.

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Question 4

Even more, in her new tiny bedroom, where she could not even escape with books without feeling guilty, because she was the only one with a room of her own.

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Question 5

The rocking horse was yet another problem.

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Question 6

Mum means we’re going to have to move house

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Question 7

Beside the front door was a lantern straight out of Narnia, wrought iron and glass panels.

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Question 8

You can get another fifty pounds, but I can’t even get another signed Harry Potter book.

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Question 9

Where they had lived before they’d had so little space that everyone always knew where everyone else was to be found.

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Question 10

Some days the business actually earned money, or would have if its owners hadn’t immediately rushed out and spent it on bike-repair and car-cleaning equipment.

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Question 11

She found a tunnel in the yew hedge, wriggled through, and discovered the old graveyard.

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Question 12

Do you think she reads too much?

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Question 13

How will I tell him that I have to go away?

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Question 14

She’s found you a babysitter!

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Question 15

She brought her art work back with her, and when it was spread out on the kitchen table, she became entirely absorbed.

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Question 16

And the feeling of living in a guarded space, cloaked in green ivy leaves.

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Question 17

Still, he longed for a letter of his own.

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Question 18

The parrot left its perch to fly, grass-green wings, coral-red beak, dark primary feathers spread like a fan against the sun-bleached sky.

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Question 19

It was all wet, dark with water, and the pages buckled with damp.

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Question 20

How, how, how, he wondered, to make a nowl find his ivy?

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Question 21

The cat-thing sank down, deep and heavy on the bed.

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Question 22

It was a picture of a bus balanced half over a cliff.

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Question 23

Your cheesy sneakers that you left at my house are in the bin.

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Question 24

There were no bolts on this time, nothing to hold it except the lock, but he grabbed the table (spilling the salad) and managed to wedge it with that.

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Question 25

He couldn't look at anyone, so he concentrated on opening the oven and lifting out the macaroni cheese.

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Question 26

He didn't know if it was the best night of his life or the worst; it was impossible to tell.

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Question 27

Yes, but do people ever come in because they've had accidents with books?

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Question 28

Shouldn't you have got the chimney swept first?

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Question 29

Deep in the dark, she woke to find sand on her pillow and a new seashell in her hand, white, speckled with caramel markings, rose pink inside.

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Question 30

And now this squirrel on his pillow.

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Question 31

Little more chalk, little more water, then again.

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Question 32

None of those words say "elephant"!

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Question 33

You opened my letter!

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Question 34

She'd never been alone in the house before, nor realized how big it was.

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Question 35

I was, she realized gradually, the wind in the open window, sucking the curtains in and out.

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Question 36

I am needing my money today, sill vous plait.

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Question 37

It was a sound so deep as to be more felt than heard, a rumbling vibration, an immense echo of comfort, half lullaby, half drumroll.

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Question 38

There he stretched out two irritated sets of hooked black claws, and with a lovely canvas tearing sound, he sliced eight long protesting rips into the patchwork bedside mat.

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Question 39

It was just a dry fragment, but it might have blown from a winter tree in Amsterdam.

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Question 40

Do you believe me?

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Question 41

He's gotten very big.

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Question 42

Is he real enough to touch?

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Question 43

It wasn't nice to be alone in a shrouded room, stuck between a sheet and a dark wooden wall, with the evening black outside the windows.

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Question 44

She had snow on her hair!

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Question 45

He found her bent double and icy.

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Question 46

The air was filled with the smell of soot: sour, tar-tasting and dusty.

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Question 47

He whacked the quilt and my leg was underneath.

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Question 48

I left my window open so he didn't scratch the door again, and I put down a bowl of milk.

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Question 49

Which book?

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Question 50

At first he managed quickly, finding handholds and toeholds easily amongst the knotty stems.

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Question 51

He moved higher and higher, until he reached the overhand of his bedroom windowsill.

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Question 52

Then, after a bit of calling and hunting, they discovered that his bedroom door was jammed.

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Question 53

A whole huge stem of ivy detached and swung down from the wall.

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Question 54

To cover his sudden awareness of this frightening and yet wonderful situation, he pulled her art book his way and began studying the pages.

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Question 55

Tres cool, she added, with a laugh in her voice as she tucked it behind her ear.

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Question 56

Bison, twenty or thirty at least, with lighter-colored young ones galloping beside.

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Question 57

I think maybe you say thirty thousand years?

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Question 58

He was covered in incomprehensible white dust.

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Question 59

You hear a voice, and it calls you back.

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Question 60

Now, for a third time, he had warmed her heart with his hesitant, Do you mind?

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Question 61

Only an ivy leaf left in the hall, dropped from her hair as she hurried.

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Question 62

At half past one they brought their pillows and quilts out onto the stairs.

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Question 63

In an incredibly short time, the large bear snore and the small bear snuffle resumed.

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Question 64

It was one of the two places where it was possible to avoid the school's mobile-phone signal blocker.

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Question 65

You'll have to go into the art college and find her.

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Question 66

I've been sorry for ages, he said truthfully.

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Question 67

She hardly knows I exist.

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Question 68

And then, beyond all hope, the door was opened, and he tumbled inside, gasping, shaking, and yet again in tears.

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Question 69

Did you come back on your own?

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Question 70

That's where he belongs.

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Question 71

His great amber eyes were gazing into the dimly lit cave of a room, at the huge image of running deer and the rocking shadow over them.

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Question 72

The house was calling them back.

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Question 73

He did suppose returning a thirty-thousand-year-old full-grown spotted mountain lion to its rightful place in time might be called a sort of tidying.

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Question 74

He thought he would wait quietly until they woke up, but after the day that had just happened and the night on the stairs before, it wasn't very long until he was asleep as well.

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Question 75

He began practicing hairstyles and cool, but non-smiling, expressions for passport photos.

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Question 76

He'd done it, the whole letter, with terrible words like "smiling" and "photograph" and "purple."

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