Neville slowly got off him and the boy sat up and shifted backwards on the sand, looking from Neville to the girl standing not far from them.
His eyes stayed longer on the dark-haired girl whose long hair covered one side of her face, hiding off one of her eyes.
He traced his eyes down her knee-length satin dress, over her bandaged leg and down to her feet, then back up to her face. He kept his eyes on her face and she, herself, was looking back at him with her one visible blue eye and the other one covered by her hair.
He shifted backwards again as he looked at the weird panther boy, then back at the girl who was still looking at him.
It's her.
The girl with the strange-looking two-coloured eyes.
The girl he had cut with his sword back in Shenon.
He searched through his head for he
