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I felt another flash of anger at that - the...
Posted on 2010-Feb-10 at 11:57
I felt another flash of anger at that - the old
anger was very close now - and quelled it as best
I couldI watched them work their way around the
circular cap, tearing away the vines and the weeds
as the light faded from the skyA single bird
cruised by with its wings folded
You saw something like that and felt like
checking into the nearest nuthousePreferably for
a long stay
The two of them were working opposite each other,
and as Wireman neared the place where Jack had
begun and Jack neared the place where Wireman had
begun, I said: "Is that speargun loaded, Jack?"
He looked upWhy?"
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Jack and Wireman knelt on one side of the capI
knelt on the otherAbove us, the sky had deepened
to an indigo that would soon be violet"My
count," Wireman saidTRES!" They
pulled and I pushed as well as I could with my
remaining armThat was pretty well, because my
remaining arm had grown strong during my months on
Duma KeyFor a moment the cap resistedThen it
slid toward Wireman and Jack, revealing a crescent
of darkness - a black and welcoming smileThis
thickened to a half-moon, then a full circleHe was checking his
hands for more bugs"I know how you feel," I said,
"but I don't think we have time for you to do a
full delousing
"Point taken, but unless you've omega speedmaster leather chewed on one of
those maricones, you don't know how I feel
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"Tell us what to do, boss," Jack saidHe was
looking uneasily into the pit, from which that
sallow stench was still issuing
"Wireman, you have fired the speargun - right?"
"Yes, at targetsDidn't I say
I was the marksman of the group?"
"Then you're on guardJack, shine that light
I could see by his face that he didn't want to,
but there was no choice - until this was done,
there'd be no going backAnd if it wasn't done,
there'd never be any going back
Not by the land route, at least
He picked up the long-barreled flashlight, clicked
it on, and shone the powerful beam down into the
hole"Ah, omega seamaster de ville God," he whispered
It was indeed a cistern lined with coral rock, but
at some point during the last eighty years the
ground had shifted, a fissure had opened -
probably at the very bottom - and the water inside
had leaked outWhat we saw in the flashlight's
beam was a damp, moss-lined gullet eight or ten
feet deep and about five feet in diameterLying
at the bottom, entwined in an embrace that had
lasted eighty years, were two skeletons dressed in
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rotten ragsBeetles crawled busily around them
Whitish toads - small boys - hopped on the bones
A harpoon lay beside one skeletonThe tip of the
second harpoon was still buried in Nan Melda's
yellowing spine
The chanel handbags shop online light began to swayBecause the young man
holding it was swaying
"Don't you faint on us, Jack!" I said sharply
"That's an order!"
"I'm okay, boss But his eyes were huge, glassy,
and behind the flashlight - still not quite steady
in his hand - his face was parchment whiteShine it down there again
It was one of the Table Whiskey kegs, now little
more than a hump under a heavy shag of mossOne
of those white toads was crouched on itIt looked
up at me, lids nictitating malevolently
Wireman glanced at his watchI'm
thinking maybe fifteen minutes before sundown
Could be a little more, could be less?"
"So Jack puts the ladder into the hole, and down I
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