Blood In the Water by Taylor Anderson

Author:Taylor Anderson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-05-12T12:06:24+00:00

A larger group of younglings and females had emerged from the gate in the palisade to help round up the sheep pigs that had scattered. Many stopped and stared at the procession making its way to the village. Chack continued speaking to Kaam, but Courtney waved enthusiastically at the gawkers. “Goodness gracious! How exciting!” he enthused. He glanced back behind them. “A great pity they’re dismantling that amazing creature so quickly, but perhaps they’ll allow me to examine its skull.” His expression turned bleak. “What’s left of it—and after it’s been cleaned, of course,” he added distastefully. He brightened. “I wonder if they’ll let me boil it. But really, Mr. Silva, you should try to be less destructive to the more scientifically pertinent features of the various specimens we encounter, in the future.”

“I’ll try, Mr. Bradford,” Silva replied dryly. “It just seems that them ‘most pertinent parts’ are always the ones most int’rested in gettin’ us.”

“Indeed.” Courtney frowned, but his smile quickly returned. “Still, quite exciting! Was this how it was when you met the Khonashi in North Borno? I so envied you that!”

Silva looked at the broad prairie surrounding them and the isolated, mountainous clumps of gigantic trees dotting it here and there as far as he could see, but they seemed most common along the meandering river. He thought about it. No, this has been a cinch. A lot shorter trip, an’ we haven’t run into near as many bad boogers. An’ maybe we discovered more unfriendly folks this time, along the other river, but we didn’t have to fight ’em. I feel pretty good, he suddenly realized, his aches having begun to diminish once he’d descended from the mountains, an’ I been eatin’ decent grub—instead of raw grubs an’ other bugs. “Not so much,” he finally replied. “The trip’s been easier so far, but folks here seem just as friendly as the Khonashi. We’ll see about that. Seems they know stuff about us too, but they ain’t had any direct contact we know of.” Unlike the Khonashi, who’d made a lost, crippled destroyerman named Tony Scott their king. Silva didn’t mention that. He didn’t know if Tony had turned himself in yet. Prob’ly has, an’ got treated like a hee-ro. But he was afraid they’d hang him for a deserter, an’ I promised not to blow. “Other than that,” he continued, “we gotta still be the better part of a hundred miles from the west coast of the island. We’re smack in the middle of it now, about as secluded as we can get. So I don’t think there’s been any direct contact with our old world here, an’ we ain’t as likely to wind up in a full-blown battle alongside natives armed with bows an’ arrows against a Jap destroyer full o’ murderin’ maniacs.” He grinned back at Courtney.

The first evidence that Silva was wrong on at least one count was revealed almost as soon as they entered the gate, for there, perched atop a wooden

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