The Last Elephant by Justin D'Ath

Author:Justin D'Ath
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742535883
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Colt must have dozed off, but at some point the sound of voices snapped him out of it. Two men were talking. Opening his eyes, he saw tree branches silhouetted against the stars above him. The truck’s engine was still running. But they weren’t moving.

Birdy’s head was lying on his arm, giving him pins and needles. He shook her gently and her eyes flew open. She nearly spoke, but Colt put a finger to his lips.

‘Shhhh! We’ve stopped,’ he whispered.

A chain rattled, then there was a squeal of hinges. Colt pulled his arm out from under Birdy and crawled on his belly to the front of the container. He peered over the edge. The truck had stopped at the end of a narrow gravel road. There was an orange van parked next to it. All around them was bush. A man in orange pushed open a tall, pipe-framed gate. Coils of razor wire glinted evilly in the truck’s headlights, but what caught Colt’s eye was a big orange sign with the familiar DoRFE rat logo at the top:

DANGER

ANTI-CONTAMINATION CENTRE

ABSOLUTELY NO ENTRY

Colt shivered. He had heard about this place from his mother. When the rat flu pandemic first broke out, DoRFE raided thousands of farms, horse stables, dog kennels, bird aviaries, pet shelters and wildlife sanctuaries, and brought everything here to test for the deadly virus.

Not a single ‘tested’ creature was ever seen again.

DoRFE called it their anti-contamination centre. Everyone else called it Death Farm.

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