Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

Author:Tiana Warner [Warner, Tiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Children's Books, Fairy Tales; Folk Tales & Myths, Literature & Fiction, Children's eBooks, Collections, Mythology & Folk Tales, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fairy Tales, teen, romance, young adult, legends, sailing, first nations, ya, canadian, paranormal, alaska, mermaids, lgbt, myths, new adult, canada, ocean, Fantasy, native
ISBN: 9780988003934
Amazon: B00NHCF4CM
Barnesnoble: B00NHCF4CM
Goodreads: 22718724
Publisher: Rogue Cannon Publishing
Published: 2014-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Captain Dani

A cold hand closed around my arm the moment I collapsed on the deck, but I couldn’t gather the strength to pull away.

I moaned weakly.

“Meela,” said Annith, “it’s me. Get up.”

I glanced sideways, overcome with relief at the sight of her human legs.

“We aren’t sure if they’re really gone,” she said, pulling me awkwardly to my feet. “Dani has an idea, though.”

I walked beside her, taking in the state of the ship around me. Everything was as destroyed as the last time, if not worse, and again my eyes found the huge gash in the mainsail. The boat still rocked, sending overturned barrels rolling, but the wind had eased off.

In the centre of the deck, Dani was yelling herself hoarse.

“Don’t get too comfy, girls! We’re over the nest now. They’ll be back.”

“I bet they’re trying to find a new whale,” I said.

Annith said nothing, but her grip around my arm tightened.

The girls spread out, forming a circle with no more than an arm’s width between themselves. Dani turned to Annith and me.

“Nice of you to join us,” she said. Her eyes blazed, manic and bloodshot.

Before I could spit out the nasty words on my tongue, she added bossily, “Stand in a circle and face the water. We’re going to use a new tactic next time they attack, and it’ll be sure to take out every sea rat that tries to climb aboard.”

“That’s hardly a new tactic!” I said. “It’s the same thing we’re supposed to do in night battles.”

“If it works at night,” said Dani, “it’ll work during the day.”

I looked at Annith in protest, but she just nodded once.

“Some of us need tending to first,” she said, and leaned around Dani to scan the other girls in the circle. I saw a few bloody faces and clothes, and Linoya—I remembered Linoya’s spear wound with a jolt of panic—she was nowhere to be seen.

Dani scanned me up and down, and wrinkled her nose like I smelled particularly bad.

“Fine,” she said. “Take the girls down one at a time to fix them. Start with her. She looks like hell.”

She nodded at me, her pointed face puckered in disgust. Nothing but a scratch on Dani’s cheek threatened to stain her clothes with her own blood. I glanced down at myself and realised how much blood I’d lost. Pain flooded back to me in both arms, and something resembling splattered paint down my front reminded me that my nose had been bleeding. I reached a hand up, confirming it’d stopped.

“Where’s—”

“Linoya’s in the cabin,” said Annith. “She’s not doing so well. It’s not fatal, but she lost a ton of blood and I think the spear might’ve damaged her spine. She keeps saying her legs are tingling. She can’t move them too well.”

I bit my lip, lost for words. The taste of blood met my tongue.

“Akirra’s gone,” whispered Annith. “And Chadri.”

I concentrated on stepping down one stair at a time.

“Anyone else in rough condition?” I said.

“Nothing horrible.”

Two more girls were dead. I felt too numb to cry.

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