Curse of the Chakka Chakka by Dionie McNair

Author:Dionie McNair [McNair, Dionie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction
Publisher: Finch Books
Published: 2017-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

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“What happened?” her da asked.

As they walked together, Brianna gave him the most important details. Tears showed in his eyes when she told him about Latidon.

“We all wondered what had become of him after the disease took hold. He fled, not wanting to infect others. It must have been absolute hell for him to become such as a Gomahra. I understand he would have wished to die every sun cycle having to live with such inherent evil, to fight it, to maintain a skerrick of goodness despite the transformation.”

“I feel bad, Da. He was my uncle.”

“No, Brianna, he had been Gomahra for many years. A fraction of Latidon had survived somehow, but not enough to say he was Latidon—just enough for regret. You must not worry yourself, for now you have a more pressing problem.”

Her da strode ahead then to warn her mam they were bringing an injured Sokomara.

She waited at the door with her healer’s bag over her shoulder. “Your da said you had an injured Sokomara.” She held her hands wide. “I do not see a Sokomara.”

“I have him in my pocket, Mam. I shrank Koshi so I could save him, only I got distracted and made him very small.” Brianna pulled the unconscious Koshi out of her pocket.

“Oh, by the Luna Goddess, Brianna, how do you expect me to do anything with that? He’s almost gone. Bring him inside and I’ll see what I can do.”

Brianna laid the tiny Sokomara on a towel in the middle of the kitchen table. “I’ll make him a little bigger, Mam. About Oke’s size.”

Brianna spun the restoration spell. Koshi grew and grew until he was a little larger than Oke. Then she revoked the spell.

“That’s much better.” Her mam out her healing equipment. “Amon and Conal, please get me some water from the well and bring some more firewood inside. Lek, my love, can you check on Sayard, then find me two pieces of light timber from Tryton’s workshop for splints?”

“What should I do, Mam?”

“You can hand me what I need and thread the needles so I can stitch his wounds.”

Amon and Conal returned with the wood and water, then after Amon had stoked the fire they went outside, leaving more room for Katrina to work. Oke climbed out of Brianna’s jerkin, scrambled down her arm and sat on the table beside Koshi.

Koshi remained unconscious as Katrina applied a powder for disinfecting the gashes then stitched the bigger of the cuts. The smaller ones she just dressed with bandages. Then she inspected his back. She shook her head. “I don’t think his fur will ever grow back here. He’s burned right down to the flesh.”

Brianna flinched. Poor Koshi. So much pain, and he’d had such pride in his bright orange fur.

Katrina applied salves to his burned flesh and laid a special wekaza web bandage over the salve. “It won’t stick to the burns, and will help keep it clean.”

Brianna nodded. When her da returned, the three of them splinted Koshi’s broken wing.

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