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Ice Maiden by Sally Prue (view source)
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Franz isn't popular in the village. It's 1939, and the German boy is on an extended holiday in England. Unsurprisingly, the local boys don't appreciate an enemy in their midst. Franz isn't happy at home either - he mistrusts his Nazi parents and he remembers the rounding up of the disabled, the gypsies and the Jews, and the smashing glass at night. Lonely, Franz spends a lot of time on the common, observing the natural world and the wildlife, in all its beauty and cruelty.
And on the common, someone watches him, filled with hate and disgust, but also with an indescribable hunger. Edrin is of the Tribe. She is fierce and beautiful, a huntress. She worships the stars and she detests the foul, lumpen, crashing demons. Yet somehow, she can't stop watching this demon calf, this Franz, the only human with no slave vines of love and friendship shooting out from him to enslave and betwich bewitch others. Edrin can't imagine anything worse than the slave vines, but she too is alone - hated by the murderous Sia who sees her as a potential competitor for Larn's affections.
Sometimes, two lonely people are drawn together, no matter what.