Star Ka’ats and the Plant People by Andre Norton & Dorothy Madlee

Author:Andre Norton & Dorothy Madlee [Norton, Andre & Madlee, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency
Published: 2017-03-16T05:00:00+00:00

He added his voice to hers. The noise was such that it made his ears hurt. But the crabs were going. The plant had toppled forward holding on to Elly Mae, its two-leafed top well above her head.

“Yaaaah!” Elly Mae was not screaming now, she was yelling. Like Jim, she had guessed about the sound, too. “Yaaaah!” Her throat almost hurt as she got that cry out.

The clawed creatures were going. Ripples sped away from where they had attacked the plant. Jim kept up his shouts until he was sure they had retreated.

“They ain’t going to get you!!” Elly Mae’s voice sounded a bit hoarse. She was speaking directly to the plant, which now was slowly straightening up its main stem. But the cords from beneath its leaves still tightly clasped the girl.

“They’re gone—for now,” Jim said, but he kept a wary eye on the water. He did not believe that the crabs could be so easily defeated even though they did not like noise.

Then he felt it. Just as the noise had seemed to deafen him when they had both yelled together, so did this sound shake his whole body. It was as if they were all caught in a huge cage that shook from side to side. He even put out his hands to try to keep his balance.

The plant loosed its hold on Elly Mae. Its root slid back into the water. They could no longer feel its fear. Rather there was another feeling—a good feeling—as if there was nothing to be afraid of now.

The rolling sensation continued, but they really were not rolling at all! It just seemed that way, the sensation spreading up into their bodies through their feet. Jim shut his eyes. He felt as if he was being tipped from one side to the other, just as if he were in a boat.

“What… what…” he heard Elly Mae ask, and opened his eyes.

Hers were very big and she was looking at him in surprise.

“It’s all shaky—everything is shaky.”

Jim made another guess. “No, we just feel that way. It’s a vibration in this.” He stamped one foot against the rock.

Already the sensation was lessening. The plant had settled on the ledge, letting its root trail into the water. It no longer broadcast feelings of fear or of danger. Whatever had happened, they had driven away the crabs, at least for the moment. But they would have to do something before they came back.

Elly Mae was thinking. “We want Mer,” she said firmly, “Mer and Tiro, and maybe Micha. We have to find a way to get them here. Mer told me so.”

“Tiro did, too. We’ve got to see what we can do. But what about—about that? If we leave it here, the crabs will come again.” He pointed to the plant.

“It isn’t afraid now. Maybe the crabs won’t come soon. And we’ll hurry…” Elly Mae was already on her way to the tunnel.

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