The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Author:Steven Hall [Hall, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781847671745
Publisher: Canongate Us
Published: 2007-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

When Scout came back my fat ginger cat dance-pranced along behind her the way he does when he’s sucking up for something. Normally, and I’ve said this before, Ian doesn’t like anyone. I’ve never seen him give another person the slightly embarrassing dancey routine, not even Aunty Ruth. Watching their silhouettes warm up into 3D as they came closer to the firelight, I thought about trust and where it comes from. Why had I followed Scout all the way down here when I knew so little about her? Partly, it was because of my own lack of success in finding Fidorous, but there was more to it than that. From the moment she’d appeared, I trusted her. It just happened. And I had the feeling that whatever came out of her mouth when she sat down by the fire, I would want to go on trusting. Ian’s dance said that as far as he was concerned, she was one of us. I wanted her to be one of us too.

“Are you okay?”

Scout nodded. “I found a friend.”

“Must be because you were so convincing about the tuna.”

She smiled.

We opened a can and fed it to Ian from the back of Scout’s mess tin, filling the lid with a little water for him too.

“I told you he’d come back,” she said, settling back by the fire.

Ian purred, his head bobbing away with greedy chewing.

“You did,” I nodded, and then: “I just thought, I didn’t bring the vodka.”

She winced. “Oversight. It’s okay though, I’m going to attempt this sober.” A pause. “I don’t know where to start.”

“Well – start at the beginning, go on until you get to the end, then stop.”

She did a small laugh which was really just a single hiss of air. “Okay then. The beginning beginning starts way back with an old man called Mycroft Ward –”

With all my interrupting, being confused and asking for clarifications taken out, this is the story Scout told me.

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