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The dream turns terrifying when an unseen force paralyzes her, crushes the sparrow’s body, and leaves Clara jolting back into reality at school. Oscar confronts her bewilderment, while teasing from classmates exposes her witch identity and deepens the mystery of what truly lies behind the impossible “life” and “death” shifts.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \n1. Title Page  \n2. 1 Sparrow Heart  \n3. 2 Badgers and Other Beasts  \n4. 3 Flying High  \n5. 4 A Snake in the Grass  \n6. 5 The Scent of Blood  \n7. 6 Blue-Light  \n8. 7 Falling Hard  \n9. 8 Soul Tangle  \n10. 9 New-Born Life  \n11. 10 Darkest Night  \n12. 11 The Revenant  \n13. 12 Vademecum  \n14. 13 The Grotto  \n15. 14 Oakhurst Academy  \n16. 15 Mrs Stern  \n17. 16 The Village  \n18. 17 Gabriel’s House  \n19. 18 The Jackdaw on the Perch  \n20. 19 The Dead Forest  \n21. 20 Inside the Monster  \n22. 21 Grey Snow  \n23. 22 Revenge  \n24. 23 When Something Has Died  \n25. 24 Home  \n26. Copyright  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nSparrow Heart  \nI was a bird. Tiny, grey-and-brown sparrow’s wings carried me through the air, I darted in and out among twigs and branches, and it was spring, or nearly so. The scent of life and greenness was everywhere, and the trees had tender buds for me to eat.  \nSomehow I knew that I was dreaming. I knew that in real life I wasn’t a sparrow, but a girl called Clara, and I definitely didn’t have wings or a beak, nor would willow buds and insects be my breakfast of choice. Nevertheless I flew through that forest, sensing spring all around me, feeling the effort of moving my wings, my claws curling instinctively around delicate twigs  \nwhenever I landed to plunge my beak into a juicy bud or nip at a passing ant.  \nThen I spotted something on the forest floor. A berry. An orange-red, only slightly shrivelled rowanberry that no one had eaten! It was a rare treat at this time of year, and my small sparrow’s tummy rumbled at the sight. Even so I didn’t dive down to snatch it up at once because the berry was right next to something else, and I couldn’t tell what it was. Only that it was different, that it didn’t belong in a living forest. Dry leaves covered it. No, they were more than just dry, they were dead. Grey husks drained of freshness, skeletons picked clean and stripped of life.  \nLeaves withering and falling from the trees were nothing new. It happened every year, much to the delight of beetles, earthworms and lots of tiny, delicious, crispy bugs. This was…something else. There was no sign of insect life in the stripped leaves, nothing stirring in the deadness.  \nI didn’t like it. But then again…I did love rowanberries. And this particular berry looked increasingly irresistible. Its juicy flesh cried“Yum!”, its scent practically begged me to eat it, everything about it was so crunchy and sweet, and it had been such a long time since the last of the tasty autumn berries had been picked and eaten.  \nI flew down to the lowest branches. The berry was only a few wingbeats away…  \nOh, oh, oh. I wanted it so much    \nBut I never got it.  \nMy wings stiffened. My claws contracted a couple of times, then released their grip on the branch. I tumbled and I fell, and I couldn’t unfurl my wings, I couldn’t move, couldn’t save myself, couldn’t do a thing. My sparrow’s heart pounded in my hollow chest, the blood roared through my veins, and yet…yet I couldn’t move. Something had overpowered me, something invisible yet ravenous and incredibly strong; it paralysed me, squeezing the life out of me, tearing my feathers from my wings, snapping  \nmy bones like twigs. I landed on my back in the dead leaves with a thud, and the last things I saw before my eyes cracked and popped were the upside-down sky, the grey, stripped leaves and the fiery red berry I knew I would never, ever be able to reach.  \n“Clara!”  \nI flailed my arms around and hit something pointed and hard. I realized I had arms rather than wings again. I teetered on wobbly spaghetti legs, and clutched frantically at anything in reach so as not to fall. My fumbling hands closed around a handful of anorak and I clung to the coats hanging on the row of pegs outside the biology classroom at Greenacres School.  \n“Are you all right?” asked Oscar.“Are you ill or something? 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