05 Syren by Sage Angie

Author:Sage, Angie [Angie, Sage,]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-13T02:50:16+00:00

Wolf Boy scraped a spot of rust off with his fingernail. But it is. You know, he said, it reminds me of those stories about people in olden times who used to fly to the moon in things like that.

Everyone knows theyre not true, said Lucy. How could you possibly fly all the way up to the moon?

Yeahwell, of course theyre not true. Obviously.

Lucy stuck out her tongue.

But I used to like the old stories all the same, said Wolf Boy, tapping the side of Miarrs boat. It rang like a bell. We had a nice Chief Cadet for a whilebefore they found out that he was nice and put him in a Wolverine pit for a week. Anyway, he used to tell us moon stories, and they were all about things like this.

The Red Tube lay cradled between two metal lattice platforms that came halfway up its sides. It was, Wolf Boy guessed, about fifteen feet long, and had a line of tiny, thick green glass windows punctuating the sides and a larger one in the front. Through the glass Wolf Boy could just about make out the shapes of high-backed seats that were unlike any seats he had ever seen before.

The Red Tube rested on two sets of parallel metal rails. The rails extended for about twenty feet and then took a steep turn downward and descended into the dark, toward the sound of the waves. Wolf Boy and Lucy peered down, and the lamplight caught the glint of metal rails disappearing into black water.

We cant possibly go in that thing, said Lucy, her voice echoing in the cavern.

But how else are we ever going to get off this lighthouse? asked Wolf Boy. Swim?

Crumbs, Lucy said before falling uncharacteristically silent.

Miarr walked shakily through the red door and joined them on the metal platform beside the Red Tube.

Please open the pilot hatch, he said, pointing to the smallest and farthest of four hatches ranged in a line along the roof. Push on the black button in front of it and it will open.

Feeling as if he were in one of the Chief Cadets stories, Wolf Boy leaned over the rescue boat and pushed a black circle of some rubbery kind of material that was set flush with the metal of the roof. With a faint whir, the oval hatch flipped open smoothly, and a smell of iron and damp leather came from inside of the capsule.

Catlike, Miarr jumped onto the Red Tube and disappeared down through the hatch. Lucy and Wolf Boy watched through the thick green windows as the fuzzy shape of Miarr strapped itself into the tiny seat in the nose of the Red Tube and then, in what seemed to be a well-practiced maneuver, began turning an array of dials in front of him. Slowly Miarrs hatch closed, and Lucy wondered if he was going without them. Looking down at the stomach-churning drop, she thought that she really wouldnt mind if he did go without them.

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