Lost In Kragdon-Ah by Shawn Inmon

Author:Shawn Inmon [Inmon, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Time Travel
Publisher: Pertime Publishing
Published: 2020-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

A Race Against Time

As Werda-ak fell, the egg flew from his hands. It smashed against a rock in front of him and green and gray goop oozed from it.

Alex and Senta-eh rushed to the boy. Alex lifted his head up and pulled his eyelid back. His eye was rolled back in his head.

“Hold the torch over his leg.”

Senta-eh moved her torch and illuminated Werda-ak’s left leg below the knee. There was a long scratch there, and an angry red blotch was beginning to spread.

“Damnit! That thing got him. We’ve got to get him back to the village and see if there’s anything they can do.”

As he watched, the poisonous scratch began to swell up.

“If we don’t do something, he’ll already be dead by the time we get there.” Alex took his knife out of its sheath and held it against the flame of the torch for long moments. When he thought it was sterilized, he took two deep, cleansing breaths and placed the sharp edge of the knife against the wound. He made two quick incisions, making an “X” where the swelling was the worst.

Angry-looking pus erupted out of the wound. Werda-ak, who had been unmoving since he had collapsed, awoke with a fury, screaming his pain, then lapsed back into unconsciousness.

Alex put his fingers on either side of the oozing wound and pressed them together, like popping a pimple. More pus leaked out.

“I hope that’s enough to give him a chance,” Alex said. As gently as he could, he picked the boy up and laid him across his shoulders in a fireman’s carry.

Senta-eh put her arm on Alex’s shoulder. “Perhaps I should carry him. I am the strongest of us.”

“I won’t argue with that, but we’ve probably got three miles to get back to the village and neither of us is strong enough to do that on our own. Not with any speed, anyway. We’ll take shifts.”

Senta-eh led the way, illuminating the path back to the village with the torch. She watched Alex over her shoulder and adjusted her own pace to what Alex was able to do while carrying Werda-ak. After a few hundred yards, Alex was flagging. Senta-eh stopped, lifted the boy off his shoulders and onto hers, handing Alex the torch.

They did this relay all the way back to the village. Alex noticed that Senta-eh was able to keep up her steady pace while carrying the load for much longer than he could. If Senta-eh noticed the same thing, she did not say anything.

When they reached the outskirts of the town, a group of villagers was waiting for them.

Alex recognized Jabril-ak among them. “Hurry! Run and get your medicine woman. Werda-ak was spiked by the dandra-ta. Have her gather whatever cures she’s got!” Alex stumbled under the weight of the boy. Senta-eh reached to take him, but the villagers stepped forward and said, “Let us. We will carry him.”

So exhausted they could barely put one foot in front of the other, Alex and Senta-eh trailed behind as the villagers sprinted ahead with Werda-ak.

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