Na Akua by Clayton Smith

Author:Clayton Smith [Smith, Clayton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dapper Press
Published: 2016-09-10T23:00:00+00:00

Polunu thought a second. “They got lots of guns.”

“Oh good. Just perfect. So glad I woke up for this.”

“We should have brought lunch,” Polunu mused, staring out at the ocean.

“We’re driving into a band of gun-toting hill people to find a wild, powerful pig-god who’s almost definitely going to rip us to pieces, and you’re thinking about lunch?”

“Dinner, too. What if we’re still up there and we miss dinner?” he sighed.

“I wouldn’t worry too much about it, considering you’ll probably be dinner for a wild pig-god.”

“Nah. Kamapua’a and his pigs, they eat you, maybe, but not me.” He patted his great belly. “Bacon and me, we got an understanding.”

The hills were green and lush as they passed through the center of the island, but the landscape changed again as they wrapped around the southern coast of the harshly sloping mountains, and on the left, stretching toward the peaks, the earth became suddenly barren and rocky and bright, rusty red. The wind kicked up eddies of dirt, forming little red tornadoes that whipped across the mountain. It was quiet, and desolate, and distinctly Martian. Gray was amazed that the land could change so quickly, and so completely.

But that was the left side of the road. The land on the right side was still green, covered with a thick layer of tall grass that swayed in the breeze, all the way down to the rough ocean cliffs.

It was Mars on one side, the Great Plains on the other, with the paved highway bisecting the two halves perfectly.

“It’s beautiful, no?” Polunu grinned, watching Gray’s face. “My Hawai’i is a special place. Nowhere like her on Earth.”

Gray nodded as the landscape unfurled before them. Maui was nothing if not breathtaking in its beauty, and each new terrain was a blunt reminder that the island was in charge.

“How will we know where to find this pig-god? And Hi’iaka?” Gray asked. His moonlit meeting with the gorgeous goddess seemed so long ago now, and he was startled when he realized only two nights had passed since. And if their meeting was ages ago, his own engagement and failed wedding was someone else’s lifetime. A different sort of tragedy that had happened to a different sort of person.

The world had changed so much since then.

“We gotta follow the pigs,” Polunu replied.

“Okay. Sure. Follow the pigs. Makes sense. To find the pig-god, follow the pigs. I am actively deciding to buy into that idea,” he proclaimed aloud, just to prove to both Polunu and himself just how open-minded he was being about this brand-new world of gods and pigs. “And how exactly do we find them?”

“We keep our eyes open. And we hope the gods are on our side.”

Traffic was practically non-existent at this time of the morning, aside from the occasional pickup truck that blasted past them at 70 miles an hour. There were more goats on the road than cars, and more than once, Gray had to ease the Corolla to a stop while they waited for an errant herd to wander across the highway.

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