Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Page #3

That's fine now, Fiona.

You see. I am a type of peculiar called

an Ymbryne. That means I can...

You can turn into a bird.

Well, I do! Yes.

But that's not very useful.

An Ymbryne's main skill

is the manipulation of time.

We chose a safe place,

a safe day and create a loop.

What do you mean?

A loop preserves the last 24 hours.

Reset the loop and the day

is yours to live in again.

Reset it daily and

you can stay there forever.

Entirely safe from

the outside world.

Right on time Bronwyn, good girl.

And that's why we Ymbrynes are

charged with the care of the young.

And no one ever gets older?

It's best for everyone this way.

I assure you.

Every Ymbryne commits herself to the

creation and upkeep of a place like this.

A Home for Peculiar Children.

You've met the twins.

This is Claire.

Millard, pass the ball.

Millard you've met.

Come on.

And that's Hugh.

Stop cheating, Hugh.

Millard, that's a foul, again!

No, it wasn't! Referee!

If you two can't play without squabbling,

wish you wouldn't play at all.

Do you know referee is?

Good afternoon. I'm Horace.

Delighted to meet you.

We sorely needed

some new blood here.

Super shirt by the way.

Thanks.

You know Emma, of course.

And I think that's everyone.

Didn't Bronwyn have a brother?

Yes, Victor's upstairs.

Wait, where did Enoch and Olive go?

Heaven knows.

Enoch's been off ever since

we went to look for Jake.

Miss Peregrine, there's a policeman

at the door. He says it's about the pub.

We discuss this later, Emma.

It wasn't their fault.

Honestly, just they were

just trying to help.

Thanks. You're not

as bad as I thought.

She's not really going

to kill anyone, is she?

Not if she can talk her way out of it.

Would you help me with something.

Enoch usually does it but,

like I said, he is sulking somewhere.

Is that because of me?

He is possessive.

So... What you need help with?

One of my daily chores.

Put the baby squirrel

back in the tree.

What baby squirrel?

That happens every day?

Like clockwork.

Now, would you mind tying

that rope around my waist?

Uh... Yeah.

Right.

Promise to hold on tight?

I knew we messed that up.

Abe did too... the first time.

This used to be his job.

Emma, I need to tell you something.

He is dead.

I know. Miss Peregrine guessed

and she's always right.

It's okay.

I said goodbye to him

a long time ago.

Were you close?

I thought we were.

For a while.

But I suppose not.

Can I ask, was he like you?

He was like you, Jake.

I need to go change for supper.

Will you be dining with us?

I can't stay out late.

Supper's at 5:
30

Well, that's pretty early.

The fact we are not

all eight years of olds

seems to have eluded Miss Peregrine.

You can borrow

some of Abe's clothes.

His room's in the attic.

Jake.

Come meet Enoch, properly.

Well, you must feel

pretty out of place.

Don't worry.

I am used to it.

I wasn't worried.

Some advice for you though.

Man to man.

If you think you're staying

just because you like Emma,

don't bother.

You see, she swore off romance years ago

when she got her heart broken.

And she's never gonna

change her mind. So.

Enoch, I wasn't...

What are you doing?

Isn't he amazing?

What did you do?

This?

Jake. This is not

even the fun part.

Do you want to see the fun part?

They are like puppets.

Just do anything I tell them.

It is even more fun with people.

You should have seen some of

the epic battles I used to have

at my parent's exequies parlor.

You need a necktie.

So. What did my grandpa do

when he was traveling?

Visited other loops.

Really?

To do what?

Jake, there are some questions

I can't answer, alright?

So it will be a lot easier for me

if you just stopped asking them.

Hey, what are you doing?

Millard, go and put

some clothes on.

Polite persons do not

take the sup in the nude!

Alright! Alright!

You can sit here, Jake.

Look at Enoch. He's jealous.

Why would I be jealous?

Olive can go marry Jake

for all I care.

Do not be mean, Enoch. She doesn't want to.

She's just excited to a visitor.

Nobody is marrying anybody.

Now eat up your food

before it gets cold.

Hugh!

Where's your net?

It must be very strange

for you Jake.

To meet your grandfather's friends.

Visiting another century.

Are there spaceships

in your time, Jake.

Like the Flash Gordon books?

No! No! Olive, what did I say

about asking questions?

We don't discuss the future here.

We enjoy living in

the here and now.

Claire, why aren't you eating?

She's embarassed in front of Jake.

Don't be, please.

So, Jake, what is your peculiarity?

Oh, I'm... I'm not peculiar.

And that my friends is why

he'll not be staying with us.

No matter how hard

we try to persuade him.

We've spoken about this,

Jake is just visiting.

- Do you want... want to stay?

- Don't you want to stay, Jake?

Tonight or...

Forever.

You should stay forever.

Why would he

if he doesn't have to?

He can live out there. Grow older

and have a good time instead.

He'll leave.

Just like his grandfather did.

Emma!

- Excuse me.

- Where she's going?

That wasn't nice, Enoch!

You know perfectly well

why Abe left us.

To join the army.

And then he met a lady. And had a nice

wedding cake. And a lovely little baby.

Children!

I know you'd all like a new friend.

But I'm sure Jake has

plenty of his own back in Florida.

I think you should all get ready

for movie-time while I answer that.

But you always let us stay for it.

Hello. This is Abe.

How is everyone?

Yours has extra marshmallows, Jake.

Millard, put some pyjamas on.

It is too hot in here.

- Stop moaning.

- Excuse me.

My grandpa told me about this.

Horace projects his dreams, right?

He used to listen to the radio.

Gets tedious when you know

every word off by heart.

Splendid, I'll take it.

He dreams about clothes mostly.

Delighted to meet you.

Super shirt by the way.

When did he dream this?

Last night.

Some of his dreams are prophetic.

But mostly they are about clothes.

Prophetic as in,

he can see into the future?

An Ymbryne. Who is she?

Miss Peregrine, do you know her?

Don't be silly. Horace was just

having a bad dream. That's all.

That's quite enough.

Thank you, Horace.

I think probably get going.

You could stay the night.

If you wanted to.

Rather than walk home

alone in the dark.

But the island is

very safe, isn't it?

Of course.

I only meant the path is dreadfully bumpy.

Jake could trip.

Perhaps you could show him the shortcut.

Should he ever need to avoid... bumps.

Won't you stay to see

the restart, Jake?

It is really quite spectacular.

- Yes. Yeah.

- Yes, yes.

Run rabbit, run rabbit.

Run! Run! Run!

Don't give the farmer his fun!

Fun! Fun!

He'll get by without his rabbit pie.

So run rabbit, run rabbit.

Run! Run! Run!

"URGEN Miss Alma Peregrine."

What was that?

It was my phone.

It's been dead the whole time

in the loop. I guess now...

Your phone?

Yeah, you know... like it... a telephone.

You can call people...

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