Generation Z: The Queen of the Dead by Peter Meredith

Author:Peter Meredith [Meredith, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

She didn’t need a break, she needed a cure. For ten years she’d been able to put off the worst aspects of her mental aberration by keeping to herself, by reducing her stress levels and by taking her carefully preserved stockpiles of pills. These three crutches were gone now.

“I don’t want to delay us,” she told Stu.

“You’re either taking a break or we’re going back.”

And have two hundred more murders on my conscience? she thought. “I’ll compromise. I will take a break and catch up. Leave Mike with me if you’re worried.”

He was worried and Mike stayed, leaning against the Ryder truck as nonchalantly as he could manage. It wasn’t as if he were afraid of the slip of a girl…not exactly. She was dangerous, that was true enough. In fact, when he considered it she was probably the most dangerous person he had ever met, mostly because you just didn’t expect violence from someone with such large innocent appearing eyes.

She sat on the stoop of a Kinkos with her eyes closed. He grew bored in two minutes. “Whatcha doing?”

“Silent meditation,” she answered without opening her eyes

“What’s that?”

She slumped, her eyes coming open. “Just something I’ve been trying. Without success.”

“Sorry. I can be quiet. Though I should know how long you plan on doing this for.”

“Don’t be sorry and don’t be quiet. In fact, I want you to talk to me about sailing. How to sail, in particular.”

The request made him distinctly uneasy. “Why?” he asked, unable to hide the suspicion in the single word. He had a perfect picture in his mind’s eye of Jillybean absconding with the Saber and leaving them stranded.

“Not to steal our boat, I assure you. I don’t need to know how to sail to steal it. I could let the current carry me. No doubt I could let it carry me right out to sea with minimal activity on my part.”

“Oh, I doubt you would get that far. There’s far more to steering a ship than just current. Gerry the Greek used to go on and on about angles.” Mike adopted the voice of an imbecile, “The angle of the wind will cancel the angle of the tide if the angle of the rudder is pitched just so many degrees and the sails are canted at blah, blah, blah. It’s all very mathy the way he describes things.” He gave a thumbs down while holding his nose. Then he remembered that Jillybean liked math. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” he added hurriedly.

“I take it you didn’t learn from Gerry?”

“Oh no. My dad taught me back when I was a kid. I was lucky I got to learn on the Calypso while everyone else was learning on this junky little sunny. My dad was a great sailor even though he was self-taught. He didn’t talk about angles, he talked about feeling the boat, like it was a part of you.” Mike broke off with a long look at a very old sunset that only he could see.

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