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wanted to see.’
She smiled wryly. ‘Really? Sounds as though you’ve got a job for me, Tom.’
‘I do.’ He put his hand inside his coat and pulled out the black canister. ‘I need you to hide this.’
‘Where?’
‘That’s the point – I don’t want to know. I don’t want anyone to know where you put it.’
Lady Naomi nodded and held out her hand for the canister. She looked at Tom solemnly, her face calm and perfectly detached – a strange look of trust and obedience mixed with understanding that the less she knew about what she was doing, the better for everyone. The safer.
As Lady Naomi wrapped her long fingers around the canister, though, that calm seemed to flee from her. Her eyes widened, her mouth dropped open in a gasp, and if Lady Naomi had been a cat, Amelia was sure her tail would have been sticking out straight like a bottlebrush.
‘Lady –’ Tom stepped toward her to take the canister back, but Lady Naomi pulled herself together and tucked the canister under her arm with a short, shaky laugh.
‘I’m OK – really! I’ll –’ She smiled tightly at Tom. ‘I’ll take care of this, I promise.’
And without another word, she walked out of the hotel and into the night.
Amelia and Charlie gazed at each other. What was that?
Amelia’s mum, Grawk, Tom, Trktka, Frrshalla – none of them had reacted in any way to the canister. But Leaf Man did. And now Lady Naomi …
Dad was right: everything was moving way too fast. Secrets were unravelling all around them, and each secret was bigger than the last.
A war had come to Forgotten Bay once. And now Amelia had seen with her own eyes the canister that might very well start a new one.
The Time Shifter
published in 2016 by
Hardie Grant Egmont
Ground Floor, Building 1, 658 Church Street
Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia
www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au
This ebook is also available as a print edition in all good bookstores.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers and copyright holders.
A CiP record for this title is available from the National Library of Australia
eISBN 9781743583999
Text copyright © 2016 Chris Morphew, Rowan McAuley and David Harding
Illustration and design copyright © 2016 Hardie Grant Egmont
Illustration by Craig Phillips
Book cover design by Latifah Cornelius
We welcome feedback from our readers. All our ebooks are edited and proofread vigorously, but we know that mistakes sometimes get through. If you spot any errors, please email [email protected] so that we can fix them for your fellow ebook readers.
She smiled wryly. ‘Really? Sounds as though you’ve got a job for me, Tom.’
‘I do.’ He put his hand inside his coat and pulled out the black canister. ‘I need you to hide this.’
‘Where?’
‘That’s the point – I don’t want to know. I don’t want anyone to know where you put it.’
Lady Naomi nodded and held out her hand for the canister. She looked at Tom solemnly, her face calm and perfectly detached – a strange look of trust and obedience mixed with understanding that the less she knew about what she was doing, the better for everyone. The safer.
As Lady Naomi wrapped her long fingers around the canister, though, that calm seemed to flee from her. Her eyes widened, her mouth dropped open in a gasp, and if Lady Naomi had been a cat, Amelia was sure her tail would have been sticking out straight like a bottlebrush.
‘Lady –’ Tom stepped toward her to take the canister back, but Lady Naomi pulled herself together and tucked the canister under her arm with a short, shaky laugh.
‘I’m OK – really! I’ll –’ She smiled tightly at Tom. ‘I’ll take care of this, I promise.’
And without another word, she walked out of the hotel and into the night.
Amelia and Charlie gazed at each other. What was that?
Amelia’s mum, Grawk, Tom, Trktka, Frrshalla – none of them had reacted in any way to the canister. But Leaf Man did. And now Lady Naomi …
Dad was right: everything was moving way too fast. Secrets were unravelling all around them, and each secret was bigger than the last.
A war had come to Forgotten Bay once. And now Amelia had seen with her own eyes the canister that might very well start a new one.
The Time Shifter
published in 2016 by
Hardie Grant Egmont
Ground Floor, Building 1, 658 Church Street
Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia
www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au
This ebook is also available as a print edition in all good bookstores.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers and copyright holders.
A CiP record for this title is available from the National Library of Australia
eISBN 9781743583999
Text copyright © 2016 Chris Morphew, Rowan McAuley and David Harding
Illustration and design copyright © 2016 Hardie Grant Egmont
Illustration by Craig Phillips
Book cover design by Latifah Cornelius
We welcome feedback from our readers. All our ebooks are edited and proofread vigorously, but we know that mistakes sometimes get through. If you spot any errors, please email [email protected] so that we can fix them for your fellow ebook readers.
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