Lizard's Tale by Weng Wai Chan

Author:Weng Wai Chan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2019-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

A Bullet Hole

There was a grunt of surprise as the door met resistance from the bolts of silk on the floor. Then the door was shoved open and Lizard was alarmed to recognise the man in the doorway as the one who had put the gun to Katsu’s head.

He was not as big as Katsu, but his closely shaved head made him resemble him so much that Lizard found himself thinking of him as Little Katsu. The man stood there, staring at the empty cage and then at the three by the window until he recovered and yelled something over his shoulder.

He turned back to look at them. ‘How you get out?’ he said.

More loud steps thumped up the stairs, and the hooded man appeared in the doorway. He pointed at Lili. ‘You! Who are you? How did you get in here?’ He moved towards her menacingly.

Lizard jumped in front of Lili. ‘Run!’ he gasped, pointing at the door.

Lili dodged Lizard and snap-kicked Little Katsu in the stomach.

‘Oof!’ he grunted and grabbed at her, missing.

Lili swung round with a sweeping kick and smacked Little Katsu in the face with her foot. He stumbled back and tripped over a bolt of silk, falling heavily on his back. Boxes crashed to the floor.

Georgina jumped over the bolts and headed for the door, but the hooded man was in her way, and she stopped short. In a split second she picked up a skinny roll of silk and rammed it hard into his stomach. The hooded man doubled over. Georgina dropped the bolt and ran past him, but his arm shot out and he grabbed her around the waist, shoving her back into the room. The bolt she had dropped rolled under her foot and she tripped and fell. She sat there, gasping.

Meanwhile, Lizard had picked up a box and smashed it over Little Katsu’s head. Dozens of colourful reels of cotton burst out and clattered across the floor. Little Katsu rose up with the inevitability of a tidal wave, and reached out for Lizard.

‘You dirty animal!’ he snarled, grabbing Lizard by his shirt front. He shook Lizard until the little bones in his ears rattled.

Lizard was terrified. He knew this man could snap his neck as easily as a used satay stick if he wanted to, and he was pretty sure he wanted to.

‘Let him go!’ shouted Lili, as a loud blast shook the room. She turned to see the hooded man pointing a smoking hand gun at the ceiling and a newly created bullet hole in the plaster above him.

‘Amusing as it is to watch Nobu fighting little children, I must insist you all stop,’ said the hooded man. He dipped at the waist, and stretched his hand, gun still in it, towards the cage in a mock gesture of invitation. ‘Please enter this humble abode.’

Little Katsu, whose name was actually Nobu, flung Lizard into the cage. Then he seized Lili and pushed her in. Georgina, not wanting to be touched by the brute, stumbled in by herself.

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