CALL OF THE SEA CHAPTER 6 HOW TO

Just get some rest,” Barriss said.Īshla curled up on her side while Barriss pulled the blankets up around her shoulders, guilt making her stomach roll. “You don’t have to talk about it.”Īshla hated how easily the lie slipped from her lips. Tears pricked her eyes then slid down her cheeks. “This looks more like your ‘I cried my eyes out’ hangover, not your ‘I stayed up too late’ hangover,” Barriss said with a frown.Īshla thought of Rex, limp in the tank, his scales falling off. Her friend’s brow was pinched in worry.Īshla shook her head. She must have fallen asleep because the next thing she knew, the mattress dipped and she opened her eyes to find Barriss sitting at her side. Then she went back to her room and laid down with the cloth over her eyes. After a moment, Ashla dragged herself to the bathroom where she swallowed some more Tylenol and soaked a washcloth in cold water. This was her usual reaction after an extended cry, but it never got easier to deal with. She lay back and covered her gritty-feeling eyes with a hand, her head throbbing in time with her heartbeat. She’d had that dream before, but it was usually more coherent. Her sleep shirt was damp with sweat, and her hair clung to her damp cheeks and forehead in strings. She was hiding in the folds of a huge brain coral, a hand clapped over her mouth to stifle her giggles - no, her screams.Īshla sat up with a gasp.

CALL OF THE SEA CHAPTER 6 HOW TO

“You showed me how to make it better.”Īshla suddenly found herself in the coral garden. “This one looks much more defensible than the last one,” her playmate said.Īshla bumped her shoulder against his. Rex swam up to her side, his little legs - no, his tail - propelling him through the water.

The hot sun beat down on her head - no, that wasn’t right - Sunlight diffused by kelp fronds and sea water, dappled the sand and where she’d chosen to play.

Six-year-old Ashla patted the sand into place on her sandcastle and stood back to survey her work.

Call of the sea chapter 6