Haven (The Breadwinner Trilogy) (17 page)

Epilogue

Veronica stirred in her sleep, rolling over in the massive king sized bed.  As flashes of lightning filled the room she rubbed her eyes, confused by the dream she’s just woken from.  She had been running with her brother through a forest of dead trees, everything around her was on fire.  She couldn’t keep up with
Isaac; he was too fast for her.  They’d finally reached a clearing in the trees and there she found her father, only it wasn’t her father, it was an eater, and he was eating the flesh from Samson’s corpse.  The head on Samson’s corpse looked up at her slowly, opened its mouth unnaturally wide and screamed.  But the scream wasn’t his, it was a woman’s. 

Veronica sat
up in the bed and shivered, a chill running down her spine.  The wind outside howled, slamming rain into the balcony door and windows.  Thunder boomed in the sky and she wondered if it was the storm that had infiltrated her sleep.  The woman’s scream that had emanated from Samson in her dream left a knot sitting in the pit of her stomach as she lie back down in the bed, pulling the covers up to her chin, listening for any sign that something could be wrong.  After a few minutes she began to feel drowsy again.  Her final thought of the evening was that they were safe; there was no reason for anyone to be screaming on the 24th floor of Emerald City.

She closed her eyes and gave no further thought to the waking world.