7/6/2023 0 Comments Jasmyn by Alex BellThe thought of being packed off to stay with Aunt Agatha again made Stella feel positively sick. Even though she’d begged, pleaded, cajoled, threatened and stormed – none of it had done any good at all. But it was hard to be cheerful when Felix was still refusing to take her on his expedition. She ought to be in the most splendid mood – it was her birthday tomorrow, and the only thing Stella loved more than birthdays was unicorns. Stella Starflake Pearl rubbed frost from the turret window and scowled out at the snow. Into an intimacy from which they never recovered.’ Then – above the panting of the wolves, the trumpeting of the mammoths, the thundering of the unicorn’s hooves, Beanie’s muttering and the shouting of the explorers behind them – Stella heard a faint, dreadful sound. It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer – tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk – but Stella really, really didn’t want that to happen, just the same.
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