In the Manuscript ~ chapter three
Manuscript Title: Quest for Milo
Chapter: Three ~ The Orphan
Version: 4th? 5th??
Copyright: Melissa LeGette
The Excerpt:
They must have thought they had found the perfect child to frighten into servitude with tales of baby snatchers and bloody murderers. It was true that during six years, Melena never mastered enough courage to run away, though she had often dwelled on swallowing her own dose of Confidence. Whenever she was brimming with hurt and anger with the Bells, embolden with bitter rage, Hazel perched in the crook of her elbow, she always faltered upon the doorstep of the apothecary. If she left, where would she go? What would she do? Return to St. Brenda’s Orphanage where she was just as likely to be sold to another pair of Bells? Melena couldn’t bare that.
