Knight, E.E - Vampire Earth 01 - Way of The Wolf by Knight E.E

Author:Knight, E.E [Knight, E.E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-20T08:00:00+00:00

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It was a tired lieutenant who returned to the overlook that evening, having covered fifteen miles on foot in the course of the day. Two hours after sunset, the three lights appeared on the dark lake.

“Thar she blows,” Harper quoted, choosing a curious allusion. Valentine was mentally reciting two on the land and three in the sea, and I on the outskirts ofMilwaukee will be.

Harper poured his flammable liquid on two piles of wood, twelve feet apart on the lakeside of the overlook wall, and set them ablaze. One light on the boat began winking on and off, as somebody opened and closed a hooded lantern.

“Are you satisfied it’s them?” Harper asked.

“Yes,” answered Valentine, trying to make out the lines of the little ship.

“Then let’s go down to the beach, sir, and deliver the mail,” Harper said, kicking out his fires.

The ship bobbed in the small swell of the lake. The waters ofLake Michigan did not roar as they struck the shoreline, but instead gently slapped it. The lake almost seemed playful on this idyllic summer evening, and something about the cool water in the warm evening breeze made Valentine forget the dangers of the night. The men waded out, weighed down with their waterproofed message bags, moccasins tied around their necks.

A tiny dinghy met them, its sides a bare sixteen inches out of the water.

“Climb in sideways,” a boy’s voice said from the stern. “You’ll capsize me if you try to vault in.”

The Wolves threw their packs into the dink and rolled into the little boat. It settled in the water appreciably with their added weight.

Valentine looked into the stern, at the figure with the paddle. What he had thought was a young boy was in fact a young woman dressed in shapeless white canvas. She had a round face and merry eyes, looking at her passengers over freckled cheekbones.

“Nice night, eh, boys? Captain Doss sends her compliments to the representatives of theOzarkFreeTerritory and invites you aboard the yawl White Lightning,” she said, flashing an impressive set of teeth.

“The what White Lightning ?” Valentine asked.

“Yawl,” she repeated. “You know nothing of ships, soldier?”

“Not much,” Valentine admitted.

“It’s a little thing, but seaworthy as a porpoise. A ship not very different from ours made it around the world with only a single man on board. Over a hundred years ago, that was.”

“Good to see you again… Teri, is it?” Harper said, contemplating his soaked deerskin breeches.

“I thought you looked familiar. Aaron… no, Randall Harper. Met you twice before, I recall. But I didn’t see you this spring.”

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