Ivy And Bean Book Novels & Stories

"And I found a book." She said it the way she said everything — flat, no lead-up, no attempt to make it land bigger than it was. But she didn't set it down right away. She turned it once in her hand first, weighing it, the way she might have checked a tool for a crack before trusting it to hold. Ivy had watched Petra pull a hundred ordinary things out of the ground since they'd made camp here — a broken hinge, a corroded pipe fitting, once a child's shoe nobody claimed — and set every one of them down without a second look. This she kept turning. "That's not how you usually hold junk," Ivy said.