TREASURE KILLS (Legends of Tsalagee Book 1) by Phil Truman

Author:Phil Truman [Truman, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: hidden treasure, Legends, Belle Starr, small town, Bigfoot, Murder, Hillman
Publisher: Deadly Niche Press
Published: 2011-06-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Hill Man Gets a Taste

The creature stood to his full eight-foot height, and sniffed the cool night air intently. As mainly a herbivore he knew every scent of every plant, nut, and root growing in the wooded hills, but this powerful smell wafted alien through his large nostrils. The chemical message his keen olfactory nerves sent to his brain could find no purchase within the vast array of his memory. The only understanding conveyed to his consciousness was that the odor came not from animal, nor did it come from mineral. It came, most definitely, from vegetable.

The scent led him to a place where he had come before. The winter had just passed, so the night air lay warmer this time, but not by much. His breath still came out in billows of whiteness as he stood in the moonlight at the edge of this dwelling place. He would not go near the places where the Others dwelled. By the example of the old ones in his group, at that young time in his life when he had stayed near the group, he had learned this. His kind knew that the Others could be dangerous and should be avoided. Long ago that had not been so hard, but as the winters passed the Others had become more and more numerous, and avoiding them had become increasingly more difficult.

He had never really experienced danger from the Others. Most he had come in contact with frightened easily, and ran away like rabbits when they saw him. But some carried a great power he did not understand. He had experienced that power first hand. On a day many winters past when an Other spotted him and had sounded his power toward him from a distance, he felt a sudden and great pain in his shoulder. Something had gone through him, and he bled from two holes. It took a complete birth of the moon for the holes to heal, and he suffered.

One time he and a male from the Others had come upon each other unexpectedly in the hills. The Other male had pointed the power at him and tried to sound it, but it only clicked. The frightened Other dropped the power he held, and fled while making a loud noise with its mouth. The Other had also left a strong scent of fresh urine on its leaving trail. The creature had gone over to look at the power thing that lay on the ground, and had pushed it around with his foot. Finally, he picked it up and took it back to his shelter.

For some time now, he chose to leave his dwelling only after dark. He could forage in the darkness with little concern about the Others, for they didn’t come out into the night like most creatures of the hills. When he did see the Others in the woods at night, they always sat near a bush of dancing light and heat. They rarely moved away from this

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