Skunk Man Swamp by P.D. Workman

Author:P.D. Workman [Workman, P.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: pd workman

Chapter Twenty-Five

Corvin and Damon were not as close as Reg had hoped. Corvin hadn’t given her any estimate, so she had no idea how long to expect. When twenty minutes had passed, then forty, and then an hour, she was very impatient for their arrival.

She didn’t want to be the target of any extra attention, especially from any creatures or malevolent human beings. She wondered if Etienne and Bruce had already returned to their respective homes.

She sat on the boardwalk outside the store, watching the people going by, wishing she could transport Corvin and Damon there by sheer force of will, similar to when she had called Calliopia and brought her and Ruan tumbling out of thin air into her reality. But she didn’t suppose that they would appreciate it very much. They would lose any equipment they were not holding. She assumed they were in a boat flitting over the top of the water to reach her, and had no idea whether calling them magically would bring the boat with them or leave it speeding along unmanned without them. Besides which, there were a lot of people around who would probably not be too happy to have a couple of men tumbling in from the ether. In Reg’s experience, people tended to be irritable and even outright angry when they saw things that could not be explained by their own reality. They would think it was some kind of trick. And anything they couldn’t explain was bound to be classified as dangerous.

Calling them there without knowing how they would all be affected was definitely reckless. Better to just wait for them to arrive.

A woman who came out of the store approached Reg and handed her a water bottle.

“Oh… thank you!” Reg cracked the bottle open without demurring about how she didn’t need it and the woman didn’t really have to do that. She was very hot and thirsty after traipsing through the swamp for so long.

The woman smiled pleasantly and walked away with her friends. Reg heard her murmuring something about homeless people being everywhere as they walked away.

Even after washing up at Etienne’s house, Reg still looked homeless? She looked down at her arms and her clothing. Her hands were a little dirty, but other than that, she didn’t look so bad. Scratches, but no mud and grime. But there were some holes torn in her pants, and the cuffs and knees were in a shameful state. Wrestling with swamp goblins and crawling through the swamp would do that. Reg sighed.

She had nearly given up on Corvin and Damon finding her. They might have gotten lost despite the GPS coordinates, or been eaten by something in the swamp. Reg might have given them the wrong numbers, inverting some of them as she sometimes did, and they could be miles away looking for her.

“Reg!” Damon shouted, hurrying toward her.

Reg got to her feet. Damon grabbed her and held her close in an embrace. Reg went rigid at the unexpected contact.

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