Sacrificing Sapphire by Mia Thompson

Author:Mia Thompson [Thompson, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635761696
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2017-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

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Sapphire opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was a giant moose head staring back at her. She sat up, her breath lodged in her throat, and looked around.

Location: unknown bedroom. Body: seemingly unharmed. Company: dead mounted moose.

Sapphire shot out of the bed and grabbed the first weapon she could find: a cut-off elk antler. Gross.

She had no memory of getting out of the trap. She’d passed out from hanging upside down, and her last memory showed nothing but a cloud of white coming toward her. So who brought her here? Mer? No. She’d be tied up.

Sapphire was just about to open the window, when she looked outside. There was a massive blizzard going on. Blizzard + no phone + in the middle of nowhere = Bad. Shelter + possible phone + possible food = Good?

She didn’t have time to strategize more before the door opened and a small old man, who looked like he could answer to Jebediah, Jeremiah, or Jim-Bob, stepped in.

“Why good morning,” he smiled, then shouted over his shoulder. “ESTER, SHE’S UP!” He turned back to Sapphire. “Hungry?”

“Uh…”

“ESTER, SHE’S HUNGRY!” He turned back and nodded to the elk horn in her hand. “We’ve got elk hash for dinner. Good thing since you seem to like elk. Come on out.” He shuffled out of the room. “ESTER!”

“I heard you the first time!” a woman shouted back. “You don’t have to shout, Jebediah!”

Jebediah. Nailed it. After a moment of thought, Sapphire put down the elk horn, and peeked out of the room and into the small cabin.

“If you weren’t deaf!” Jebediah shouted, shuffling into the kitchen, “I wouldn’t have to shout!”

“Deaf?” Ester, a little old woman with a hooked back, shouted as she stirred a skillet at an old-fashioned stove. “I’m not deaf. I’d hear you just fine if you didn’t have such a mousey voice.”

“Mousey?!” he shouted. “Does this sound mousey, YOU DEAF COW?!”

The two glared at each other, ready to throw down. Ester’s eyes moved to Sapphire in the doorway. She smacked Jebediah in the chest, and they both smiled at her.

“Hello!” Ester yelled. “Have a seat!”

Sapphire sat at the table in a chair, and watched Jebediah shuffle over.

“You’re one lucky girl,” Jebediah said, sipping coffee from a cracked cup. “I found you just before the worst of the storm hit. You would’ve died. You have to be careful not to step on snares around these parts.”

“And where exactly are these parts?” Sapphire asked

“Tarts? We don’t have any tarts!” Ester yelled as she scuffled up to Sapphire with the skillet and dumped two pounds of elk hash on her plate. “You know, you have to be careful not to step on snares around these parts!”

Jebediah turned to his wife. “I just said that, goddamnit!”

“MILK?” Ester screamed into Sapphire’s ear.

Sapphire put her finger in her ear to ease the pain, then nodded. “Could I use your phone?”

“There’s no cellular reception around here,” Jebediah said, “and we don’t have a landline. This is just our hunting cabin.

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