I sat alone for a few minutes, taking deep breaths and scolding myself for lashing out to someone I just met ten minutes ago. News like that could have been explained way better through a civilized manner.
Not like Miss Peregrine wanted to know anything.
I didn't get it, in this situation we could just be extra cautious with Miss Peregrine, to make sure she wouldn't even be caught in the first place. Or better yet, set a trap for when the weights try to ambush us!
Sure, those plans had some holes in them, but nothing we couldn't figure out with a bit of planning!
I eventually decided on a proposal. I would offer to read the story to Miss Peregrine, and she could decide whether or not she would use the information. I just hoped she would use the information.
I then waited until Jake and Miss Peregrine got back.
A few minutes later, they walked in. Miss Peregrine looked at me.
"Better now, Miss Perine?"
"Much." I replied.
The headmistress smiled. "Miss Bloom, would you mind drawing Mr. Portman a bath? He seems to be encrusted with dried filth."
Emma appeared from the hallway and took Jake with her the other direction.
I made my move. "Miss Peregrine, I would like to make an offer. I want to read the story to you, but then I won't do anything else. You can decide what to do with the information."
Miss Peregrine stood still for a moment, then said, to my great surprise and shock, gave in. "Very well, Miss Perine. But you must absolutely not, under any circumstance attempt anything without an order from me."
"Of course," I said. I meant it. "Should I start now?"
"I suppose we should begin." Miss Peregrine withdrew a pocket watch and consulted it. "We still have many hours until my next duty begins."
So I took my book and opened it and read. Miss Peregrine sat silently, listening hard.
I read until I got to the end of the first segment, or book, because my book could show many books at once. Then I accepted a drink and turned to Miss Peregrine.
"What do you think we should do?"
"You should keep reading." She answered.
So I did and I read for hours, until I had finished the last sentence of the last book.
We sat in silence for who knows how long, the Ymbryne in the chair next to me as quiet and as still as stone. It was clear she was processing.
Then she finally spoke.
"If it weren't proven that that book contains the future, then I would have said that that was full of undiluted balderdash."
A beat.
She opened her mouth as if to say something, but the words seemed to crumble in her throat and she stood. I assumed she'd been imagining the endangerment of her loop, but not the endangerment of all peculiardom. I should have warned her with more detail.
"Excuse me for a moment."
Then she exited quickly and rushed up the stairs to what I assumed was her study.
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Thin Ice (MPHfPC Fanfic)
FanfictionAugust thinks her life is settling down in Cairnholm went she meets Jake, a boy not much older than her, who came looking for the old children's home. She knows nothing about a home, but agrees to meet with him later. But she soon realizes that, bas...
