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A MERLIN VOCABULARY GUIDE
An ancient forest. "- winds rushing through leaves, branches clacking and cracking, needles crunching underfoot. The odd sensation stemmed from none of these things. Or perhaps it came from all these things combined. A sound. A smell. A dimly lit grove. Above all, a feeling. That something was watching me. That a strange whispering, much like what I had heard in the shell, was now happening all around me. I spotted a knobby stick, nearly as tall as myself, leaning against the trunk of an old cedar. A good staff might help me work my way through the dimly lit groves of this forest. I reached for it. Just as my hand was about to squeeze its middle, where a cluster of twigs protruded, I gasped and pulled back. The stick moved! The twigs, joined by others above and below, began churning like little legs. The knobby shaft bent as it clambered down the cedar's flaky bark, over the roots, and into a patch of ferns." (p.104-105).
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S. M. Smoller, Cullen Memorial Library, Higgins Middle School, Peabody, MA. June 2004 |
