Scavengers Box Set by Sam J Fires

Author:Sam J Fires [Fires, Sam J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Keep Your Wits About You

I don’t expect anything, but I hope that my little plan will work, and that the bedsheet tied to the javelin and satchel straps will serve as a parachute or maybe even a glider.

As I take my leap of faith, even though the wind is relatively calm, the sheet immediately fills with air, forming a bubble like a hot air balloon above me. The javelin pulls up right against the strap of the satchel as though it will rip free and fly away of its own.

Relief and exhilaration course through my body. I’m going to get away. The satchel and bedsheet haven’t acted like a glider, I’m still falling but it does function as a parachute of sorts. I continue to descend the wall for a little while longer then at about halfway down I hear a cracking, lightening-like sound. I look up to see the point where Olly and I had previously patched the sheet begin to tear open again. My descent becomes more tumultuous and the tear begins to rip open faster. The perforation continues to tear and the hole grows even larger. I’m about halfway down the wall now and the parachute gives way completely, sending me into a fall. I’m suddenly no more than arms and legs spiraling in the air, a cacophony of chaos rushing to the ground.

I hit the ground hard on my left side. All the air is knocked out of me and I cough and gasp, rolling onto my right side. I’ve never felt a pain like this before, like ice stabbing into my left shoulder and shooting little shards of frost down my back and limbs. My eyesight is becoming blurry but not as though I’m about to pass out. Instead it’s as though the pain radiating throughout my shoulder is interrupting my brain’s ability to interpret visual stimulus.

There’s no time for this. I know the sharks will be down upon me soon. This is a fight or flight moment and my adrenalin kicks in. I’m able to swallow down the icy pain in my shoulder and force it back into the deeper recesses of my mind.

With the sense of pain arrested, I force myself to my feet.

Dozens of sharks have now mounted the imposing wall and are all looking down at me. Luckily the Heap Gate isn’t anywhere near this point of the wall. This was a deliberate decision of mine and Olly’s so that if things ever went pear-shaped, as they have, the sharks wouldn’t be able to come rushing out to waylay us all at once.

I stare up at the sharks a few seconds longer, then one of the them lowers himself and begins to climb down the outer part of the wall. The others follow suit.

I watch in utter disbelief and can’t understand them climbing up the wall on the inside. There are many points of traction for them to grasp, but the side of the wall where I stand, on the outer side of the wall, is as smooth as glass.

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