Two
We get to find out how special the book is once the traders have left and we’re back in the warm living room. I’m glad they’re gone, it was strange having other people on the island. Especially the girl. Even thinking of her gives me a funny feeling in my stomach.
“It’s about bears,” Arnold announces as soon as we’re all sitting. “It’s the Ursa Chronicles.”
Maybe our feeling of excitement this morning wasn’t about the traders after all. Maybe it’s connected to this book.
“But they were never printed,” Bertrand mutters sceptically. “They were passed on from bear to bear, from parents to children. That’s why they got lost in time and only fragments remain nowadays. It was too dangerous to write them down.”
“That’s why they haven’t made it obvious,” Arnold smirks and shows us the cov
