The REIGN: Out of Tribulation by McClain Jones Jeffrey

Author:McClain Jones, Jeffrey
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Though spring arrived before she had been announced, she seemed in no hurry to leave. The heat of summer would have arrived in April, if spring’s early debut had been a predictor. Instead, the days remained warm, sunny and pleasant, the nights cool and full of the sounds of frogs, crickets and coyotes. It rarely rained during the day, but rained a bit almost every night, a farmers dream.

Socks occasionally spent a dry night outside, presumably with the other coyotes who sang to the moon. Distant farm dogs, of more reputable breeding, answered the coyote song in their own refined accents. Daniel would smile at the sound, thinking of Socks getting out with his friends.

As for Daniel, he had convinced his mother to let him buy an electric scooter, so he could ride into town to visit kids his age. The phenomenon of the disappearing children did not include teenagers, apparently. Though other teens lived in the area, the lack of schools made getting together more difficult. Daniel, who had turned fifteen at the end of March, was sufficiently motivated to make the extra effort.

The available wheels also gave Daniel the opportunity to get some work in town with Dale. He had actually attempted to give Chip, the android, a ride on the back of the scooter, but keeping his balance, and hanging on, seemed too difficult for the mechanical man, who, on the other hand, found differential calculus no problem at all.

On a day when Daniel was working in town, Emma drove in to spend some time with Jenny. Steve was already there looking at prospects for work. Thus, Rodney, who had no paying work on that particular day, had the place to himself.

Being the sort of carpenter who can always find something to do to improve even a well-built house, Rodney had only to decide which project he should tackle first, on that bright and breezy day. While working in the barn, testing beams for strength and longevity, he caught sight of a large black object through the cracks in the ancient barn wall. Curious, he climbed down from the loft, after holstering his hammer. As he approached the barn door, the large black object moved again, its mysterious shape blocking the sunlit cracks.

A hundred questions rolling through his head as he peeked around the doorpost, Rodney laughed when he saw that his mysterious visitor was a cow. A second look, however, told him that, in fact, it was a bull. About the time he figured that out, one liquid eye turned on him, as the massive beast bent around to see who was approaching.

Though he wasn’t a farmer or a rancher himself, Rodney had a history with cattle, from his summers in Nebraska. That history included a couple of narrow escapes under the barbed wire, with an irritable bull targeting his backside. Standing in the door of the barn, Rodney made a quick calculation of how fast he could get back inside and up the loft ladder.

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