Queen of the Night
Will has a very special power: she can control electricity. Therefore she can also talk to appliances of all kinds. The little cleaning robot K-zero-one is almost like a little dog and very helpful when the girls come to visit the curious glass dome.
Egmont Kids 2006
ISBN 978-91-7130-701-9
“Hello,” whispered Will, “welcome!”
It seemed in a way natural to wish the Queen of the Night welcome, even though she was just a flower. The flower cup had the kind of whiteness that almost looked green. Ice-green. Like winter ice on a sunny February day.
“Oh how beautiful you are. Why can’t you flower more often?”
She wondered what had caused the ugly, prickly cactus to suddenly start flowering. What had awakened it? After twelve years?
It is not just the cactus that has been sleeping. On an island far away a girl lies sleeping. She has slept for five long years in her coffin of glass. The people who keep her asleep are themselves prisoners within a glass bubble deep in the jungle. Inside it they live their artificial lives with pills in place of food and enforced periods of exercise in the gym. Around the bubble felled cacti lie dead. The question is why?
Cover and illustrations: Manuela Razzi
