Confessions of a Physical Wrac (Rosie Dixon, Book 6) by Rosie Dixon
Author:Rosie Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007544554
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-01-09T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER SEVEN
âItâs sort of spooky, isnât it?â says Penny.
âYes,â I say.
It is half an hour later and Penny and I, clad in drawers, cellular, green â and suitable overgarments â are feeling our way through a dripping, tropical rain forest. The humidity is so great that it is difficult to breathe and the dense vegetation brushes against our clothing like one of those horrible men I always seem to sit next to in the cinema. It does not seem possible that we are in the middle of Penge. I look through the trailing tentacles of a flowering creeper to my right and catch a glimpse of the Majorâs worried face peering through a section of the steamed-up glass panel that divides us from the outside world.
âDo you think they have snakes here?â I say.
âI should think itâs totally authentic,â says Penny. âSnakes, spiders, leaches, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn â you name it.â
âI wonder where the others are?â I say.
âThatâs whatâs worrying me too,â says Penny. âIâd rather curl up with a tarantula than our Scots friend with the aereated smile â oh for Godâs sake! Stop sniffing!â
âI just want to know when something happens,â I say. âThe suspense is the worst part. I wouldnât mind so much if I knew when they were going to let it off.â
âYouâre never going to be able to tell,â says Penny. âNothing can top the pong of this rotting vegetation. The whole place is falling apart.â She stabs her toe at a tree stump which crumbles like a sodden sandcastle.
I donât reply because something happens that makes my blood freeze â even in this torrid atmosphere. Something is crawling up the back of my leg! Something large and slimy. Something with sharp pincers that suddenly dig into my flesh. I have prepared the scream long before I have to use it but the leap into the air and the wild backwards slap are totally impromptu.
âDinna take it amiss, lassie. I waâ jusâ havinâ a wee feel, the noo. We might as well get acquainted afore we haâ ter ba prised apart anâ aw thaâ.â Private MacMillan is revealed rubbing his cheek where, luckily, I have caught him a stinging blow.
âParting is such sweet sorrow. Thatâs what the poet says, isnât it?â says Moon Face agreeably.
âShutyerface unless yer wanâ me ter pit the heed in!â says MacMillan savagely. âWhen I want any oâ your blather Iâll ask foâ it!â
It is at this moment that I have a horrible suspicion that the gas has been introduced into the chamber. Normally, the spectacle of the pint-sized Jock bristling like an angry polecat would be repulsive in the extreme but I suddenly find an aspect of his mindless aggression rather attractive. It must be some form of return to the past when we were all ruled by primitive instincts and the strongest won his mate by brute force. Damn clever, these Chinese.
âI wanna get in yaâ knicks, gal!â The man is clearly no more averse to bringing his
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