#05 Mother of the Moonrat by Trevor H. Cooley

Author:Trevor H. Cooley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Talon crept through black sludge and rotted vegetation. Rain poured down all around her, leaving deep puddles and sucking mud. She was getting close. There were very few living things this deep into the dark forest. Just vicious biting insects, snakes, and half dead trees. And moonrats of course, but they didn’t bother her as long as she stayed hidden at night. Her pheromones hid her from their sensitive noses.

The bugs didn’t bother Talon much either. She enjoyed the feel of their stings and they were the only thing she could safely eat in this place, flavorless as they were. The driving rain that had begun the day before had been welcome as well. The moonrats didn’t prowl about as much in the rain and for some reason these bugs made her quite thirsty.

She opened her mouth as wide as she could and turned her face towards the sky, letting the water trickle down her throat. Talon swallowed and smiled. This would be the day. She was sure of it. This was the day she would find Mellinda and kill her.

She had been conducting a steady search of the Dark Forest, starting with a search around its perimeter, then circling inward just in case the moonrat mother wasn’t in the exact center. Yet that seemed to be where Mellinda was, for the trees were getting more rotten and most of them were leafless. Several times she passed tall mounds of stinging ants and slid by small clouds of greenish flies.

It was nearing dark before she found her. The rain stopped and the moonrats had come out of hiding. Luckily they were mostly blind and Talon kept her movements slow, avoiding them as much as she could. Soon there were so many of them that Talon was forced to lay against the trunk of a tree as still as possible and wait.

She was grateful for Ewwie’s gift. Her pheromones were powerful enough that a couple times moonrats crawled up her back without noticing she wasn’t part of the tree. Her biggest struggle was resisting the urge to kill them. She promised herself that she would kill them all as soon as Mellinda was gone.

A short time later Talon saw her.

The moonrat mother rose up from the base of an enormous rotted tree not far from the place where Talon hid. Her skin was purest black and glistened in the dying sunlight in such a way that Talon could only make out the outlines of her voluptuous shape. Cascades of black hair fell about her shoulders. Mellinda lounged in the exposed roots of the tree and idly caressed the heads of a few orange-eyed moonrats that stood near her.

Talon’s heart pounded. She was close. As soon as the moment was right, she would strike. She watched the moonrat mother for a while. Mellinda merely lay there, occasionally stretching or crooking her finger for another moonrat to come to her. It was as if she was practicing luring men, much in the way Ewwie had taught her.

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