Aliens Stole My Body by Bruce Coville

Author:Bruce Coville
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Aladdin

CHAPTER

13

The Worms’ Turn

NOW THAT ELSPETH HAD POINTED the worms out, you couldn’t miss them. There were worms all around us, and more squiggling our way from every direction. Hundreds of worms. Thousands of worms. Millions and billions and trillions of worms. The land around us had become a squirming, writhing mass of wormflesh. Utterly silent, they covered the ground like some living blanket. Even as Seymour and I stood staring in horror, we could feel some of them starting to crawl up our legs.

“Mommy!” wailed Krixna. “I’m frightened!”

I probably would have said pretty much the same thing, if I had had a mouth. Elspeth didn’t bother with words; she just stood there screaming. Nanda plucked Krixna off the ground to keep her away from the squirming worm horde. Then Mir-van swept Nanda into his arms, to do the same thing. As I saw him standing there, holding his wife who was holding their little girl, it made me wish my dad was there. Not to hold me. (Well, maybe I wished for that a little.) Just so we could fight side by side.

Except how do you fight worms? We could step on them. We could tear them away from our bodies. But not all of them. Not even a tiny fraction of them.

I could feel Snout sending a message: Stay calm, he urged. Stay calm.

But how do you stay calm when you see a writhing flood of worms about to engulf you? They crawled over and around each other, like living spaghetti oozing its way across a plate. Only, unlike spaghetti, the worms were all sizes and colors—from tiny red ones shorter than my little finger to four-foot-long monsters that were brownish purple in color and as thick as a man’s arm. And instead of tomato sauce they were covered with gooey slime.

I wanted to run, but it was pointless—the worms were coming from all directions. To run would have been to plunge right into them.

Seymour and I felt more worms oozing onto our legs. We shook our right front leg, sending some of them flying. But as soon as we set it down so that we could shake another leg, it was covered again.

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