Bradley Denton by Buddy Holly Is Alive & Well on Ganymede

Author:Buddy Holly Is Alive & Well on Ganymede [Alive, Buddy Holly Is & Ganymede, Well on]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781530196951
Google: aHwyvgAACAAJ
Amazon: 080328120X
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 2015-02-24T08:00:00+00:00

RINGO

Ringo caught up with the motorcycle after a twenty-minute run. The Ariel was parked with a black automobile, but no people were in sight.

He trotted to the car's left front window and peered in. Sure enough, Vale was asleep in the far seat...

but in the driver's seat was a woman who was awake.

The window slid down with an electric hum, and Ringo backed away. He remembered the Windex incident.

"I thought I heard someone out here," the woman said softly. "It was the nose prints on the window that gave you away, though."

Ringo cocked his head as he listened. The woman's voice sounded neither afraid nor threatening.

Instead, it was almost like a higher-pitched version of the voice of the man called Boog.

"Are you hungry?" the woman asked.

He wasn't, really, because he was still saving treats from his raid of the night before. He took a step forward anyway.

The woman rummaged in a pocket of Vale's thick outer garment. Vale shifted in his sleep and mumbled.

There was a rustle of cellophane, and the woman pulled out a package of Twinkies.

"Yucch," she said as she turned back toward Ringo. "You wouldn't want this junk, would you?"

Ringo whined. It seemed like the polite thing to do.

The woman unwrapped the Twinkies and tossed one to the dog. He caught it in midair and swallowed it whole.

"I'll have the other one myself," the woman whispered. "Just don't tell bugbrain here. It'd ruin my image."

She bit into the cake.

Ringo watched her for a little while, wagging his stump, and then trotted away. The woman seemed nice.

He was glad that he had broken his rule about getting close to human beings.

He crossed the asphalt strip that cut through the park and then lay down in a clump of evergreens, where he dozed until the sound of an engine woke him. He recognized it as that of the second truck in which he had ridden.

Ringo raised his head and pricked his ears as the truck's headlight beams speared through the trees. It stopped twenty yards from the car and the motorcycle, and as it stood there idling, the smooth-headed drive emerged and stood between the lamps. He was carrying a rifle.

The woman who had given Ringo a Twinkie stepped from the car, and Vale appeared on the other side of the vehicle. The woman looked angry, and Vale looked frightened.

The rifleman cocked his weapon and aimed it. Ringo leaped to his feet, but the man was already squeezing the trigger.

The sharp crack echoed among the trees as the man cocked the rifle again. The black automobile's right rear tire had gone flat, but Vale and the woman were still standing. The rifle cracked again, and the car's left rear tire exploded.

"Run, stupid!" the woman shouted at Vale, and then she sprinted for the black air beyond the reach of the headlight beams.

The rifleman cocked his weapon a third time and swung the barrel toward the running woman.

Ringo bolted from the trees as the man began to squeeze the trigger, and his jaws closed on the man's left forearm.

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