"Leave me be! I dunno nothin'!" she cried. She backed away as I stepped forward.
"It's all right, Maree. I'm not going to hurt you. Please, just tell the truth and everything will be all right. Tell me who made you steal the book."
She shook her head. "No. No." Tears streamed down her face and her nose oozed a thick green sludge. "Leave me be. Go away!"
"Maree-."
"I said go away!" She ran at me, teeth bared, cap falling to once side. A knife in her grasp.
She hadn't been ringing her hands in her apron, she'd been polishing the blade.
I gasped and put my arms up to cover my face.
"Emily!" Jacob's shout sounded strange in my ears, not like him at all. High, strained.
Scared.