The ocean. The wind. The dunes. What had it sounded like, she wondered now, the singing sands?
Laila stopped. She saw a gray lizard crawl out of a crack in the ground.
Its head shot side to side. It blinked. Darted under a rock.
Laila pictured the beach again. Except now the singing was all around. And growing.
Louder and louder by the moment, higher and higher. It flooded her ears. Drowned everything else out.
The gulls were feathered mimes now, opening and closing their beaks noiselessly,
and the waves were crashing with foam and spray but no roar.
The sands sang on. Screaming now. A sound like... a tinkling? Not a tinkling. No. A whistling.
Laila dropped the books at her feet. She looked up to the sky. Shielded her eyes with one hand.
Then a giant roar. Behind her, a flash of white. The ground lurched beneath her feet.
Something hot and powerful slammed into her from behind. It knocked her out of her sandals. Lifted her up.
And now she was flying, twisting and rotating in the air, seeing sky, then earth, then sky, then earth.
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