![]() ![]() Rye is too young to go, but first his oldest brother, then the second one, leave and do not return. Then the Warden calls for volunteers to leave the walled city and find out who is sending the skimmers, and how they can be stopped. The people cower in shuttered, darkened houses, listening to the terrifying attacks, powerless to stop them. He prayed that he, his mother and his brothers would not wake, like those ill-fated families in Northwall, to find skimmers filling the house, and death only moments away.Įvery night vicious flying creatures – Skimmers – attack the city of Weld, flying over its towering walls and eating anything alive they can get to. He prayed that the wings would pass the house by. Rye lay in the room he shared with his brothers, listening to the rush of wings outside the shutters, the occasional scrabbling of claws on the roof. ![]() What else was there to do, when sound was dangerous, and the smallest chink of light might lead to a skimmer attack? ![]() Like all the other citizens of Weld in skimmer season, Lisbeth and her sons went to bed early. ![]()
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