Rumble In the Jungle by Matt Forbeck

Author:Matt Forbeck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781844165179
Publisher: BL Publishing
Published: 2007-12-10T07:00:00+00:00

21

“I DON’T LIKE this,” Dirk said as he helped to row the boat away from the Island of Sacrifices and towards Tobazco Island, “not one damned bit.”

“With Pegleg in the Flies’ custody, I’m the one in charge,” Dunk said, working another oar. “It’s my call.”

“You made a bad one.”

Dunk put up his oar for a moment. The others stopped rowing. “You had a better idea?”

“Sure. Wade into the island and kill them all.”

“That’s barbaric.”

You’re talking to a Blood Bowl player. Hell, you are a Blood Bowl player.”

“We don’t kill unless we have to.”

“I think having most of the team kidnapped qualifies for that.”

“I don’t.”

Dirk stood up and stabbed a finger into Dunk’s face. Before he could say anything, though, Jiminy grabbed the sides of the boat and gave it a good rocking. Dirk tumbled backward into his seat once more.

“Boys, boys, boys,” said Jiminy “I can see your parents had a double handful between you two.”

Dirk started to stand up again, but Jiminy sat him down with a grin. “I can also see you ain’t spent much time on a boat if you’re dumb enough to stand up in one. Try it again, and you may find yourself taking a swim.”

Once Dirk had taken his seat again, Jiminy continued. “Tell me, boys, just why are you here?”

“You mean in the larger sense?” asked Lästiges. “I’ve been wrestling with that a lot myself lately, and…” Her voice trailed off as she realised everyone was staring at her. “Sorry.”

Jiminy’s grin washed Lästiges’s embarrassment away. “I mean, why are you here in Lustria? Sightseeing? Fortune hunting? Vacation? On the run from the law?”

“No,” Dunk said, “nothing like that.”

“We’re here to play Blood Bowl,” Spinne said.

“Really?” Jiminy arched an eyebrow at the woman. “They don’t have other teams back where you come from?”

“Actually,” said Dunk, “we’re here to find our sister.”

Jiminy stared at Dunk and Spinne. “You two are brother and sister? The way you were going at it the other night, I had you figured for something a little less, ah, close, relatively speaking.”

Dunk blushed and pointed to Dirk. “Our sister; we lost track of her and our mother and father back when an angry mob ran our family out of its keep in Altdorf.”

“You boys really know how to make friends.” Jiminy’s good-natured grin kept Dunk’s ire down. “I thought you resembled each other in a family way but if you have the same parents how come one of you’s a Hoffnung and the other’s a Heldmann?”

“It’s complicated,” said Dunk, putting his back into the rowing.

“What in life ain’t? Anyhow, the point here is that if you’re looking for your sister, do that. Don’t worry about the game so much, unless that’s why you’re actually here.”

Sitting next to the singer in the front of the boat, Slick clapped Jiminy on the back. “The man has a point, sons. It’s a simple matter of priorities. Of course, there’s the purse for winning the tournament, and that’s nothing to pish-posh either.”

“No.” Dunk shook his head.

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