SevenRose’s heart was still pounding in her chest. Luckily, she didn’t think anyone had noticed the tears she’d had to wipe off her cheeks more than once.
First Thalia had nearly drowned in that horrible river, and then Fungy had not surfaced for the longest time. She would not have been able to bear it, had anything happened to him while he was saving her sister.
She turned on Thalia, who now sat huddled, shivering, under a rough wool blanket on the ground. She knelt down in front of her and started to vigorously rub Thalia’s arms to warm her, her worry venting itself in a burning anger she was having a hard time controlling.
“How could you, Thalia? I have never been so embarrassed in all my life! I can’t believe you fell in. If you ever do anything like that again, I swear, I will see
