(eng) Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill by Arcanum 101

Author:Arcanum 101 [101, Arcanum]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Tomas’s plans for the evening had pretty much gone out the window now. When he’d thought—and Dios! It seemed a lifetime ago!—that this was going to be all a way to scare everybody, he’d planned on giving VeeVee a hard time for believing in it, then making it up to her by being nice, not rubbing it in too much, maybe getting her off alone for a little before the chaperones hauled them all back to their tents.

Now though—she was mad, and even if he hadn’t been seriously shaken by what had happened, the last place he wanted to be was anywhere near her. He’d never seen her like this before. Annoyed, si. Even a flash of anger now and again. But not mad like this. He only hoped Mr. Songmaker could cool her out because… oh man this was the kind of mad that could bust out in bad ways.

The other three guys crawled into the tent right after him, Kurt, who shared it with him, looking seriously shook, the other two, puzzled. “I don’t get it—” Ethan said. “I mean, Jeezus, you’d think me and Brian had done something—man, VeeVee is wound way too tight—”

Tomas saw Ethan still didn’t get it. OK, yeah, VeeVee was wound tight, but she had a good reason to get a mad on. Listening to Mr. Songmaker and he still didn’t get it. “Look, cholo, you messed up.”

The tiny lantern showed Ethan’s face pretty clearly. He looked as surprised as if Tomas had just starting reciting Shakespeare or something. “But all we did was—”

“You unbalanced the tires, man!” Tomas shook his head. “You ‘member what happened when Señora Davies showed us unbalanced tires an’ how they can wreck things? Mr. Songmaker balanced the tires with us when he paired us up, so’s we could cover blind spots. You went an’ unbalanced the tires, an’ the car just about rattled itself to pieces.” He shook his head. “Man, that—That could’a been bad. Anyway, I bet that’s why she’s mad.”

“But the teachers—”

“An’ what if that thing had got them before it got to us, huh? What if it had friends? You can’t count on nobody if you can’t see ‘em, and sometimes even if you can.” He thought about all the people that might have turned on him and given him to the cops. Okay, these kids weren’t like that. But—things happened. “Somethin’ like this, muy loco stuff, you don’t know, so you gotta stick to the plan so at least everybody knows where everybody’s supposed to be.”

Now how VeeVee knew that, and how she’d guessed what that thing was and how to bring it down… well, maybe it was luck and maybe it was something else he didn’t want to think about right now. But he knew it was true.

Ethan, at least, was nodding and now looking as guilty as Brian. Tomas punched him lightly on the bicep. “Get some sleep,” he said. “It’s a long hike back in the morning, no? I’m beat.”

Ethan nodded, paused, then wordlessly crawled out of the tent with Brian behind him.

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