The Savage Darkness by Scott B. Williams

Author:Scott B. Williams [Williams, Scott B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

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It was mid-afternoon when Lisa woke from her nap. She saw that Mr. Holloway had brought the horses back from grazing, and that they were tethered near the creek bank where he was sitting with a cane fishing pole, his back to her. She’d hoped she would wake and find Mitch there too, but seeing that he wasn’t she felt foolish for her wishful thinking. If Mitch hadn’t made his way back here by now, he probably wasn’t going to. She felt guilty for leaving without at least riding to the town to see what she could find out, but she’d promised him she wouldn’t, and she knew that keeping that promise was what he really wanted from her. Going back now would take two more nights of riding, or an all-day and all-night push like she’d done to get here. If she hadn’t been so tired, she could have made it home to tell the others by tonight too, but now it was too late in the day to leave. She didn’t mind riding the roads at night, but she wasn’t going to attempt the Black Creek Trail in the dark with three horses to worry about negotiating its water crossings and ravines and other obstacles. Like Mr. Holloway suggested, she decided she would stay here tonight and leave first thing in the morning. If by some miracle Mitch was on his way that would give him at least 12 extra hours to catch up She got to her feet and walked down to the water’s edge to talk to Mr. Holloway.

“Did you catch anything?”

“Look over there in that bucket! I never would have thought the fishing would be any good today, but look at them three bass!”

Lisa did and was delighted to see that he wasn’t joking. There were three nice bass in his old 5-gallon bucket; all of them about two pounds each.

“We got our dinner, Lisa. Them three’s more than enough. I’ll quit now and get ’em ready. I was just killing time waiting on you to wake up.”

“Sorry I slept so long. Looks like I missed out on the fun. I’ll help you scale and gut them though.”

Shortly after, just as it was nearing sundown, they were sitting by the fire eating the fish that Mr. Holloway cooked over the coals on an old grate he’d scavenged from someone’s patio grill. It was one of the best meals Lisa could remember in a while, although they had been eating steaks recently from the two steers. She loved fresh creek bass. Uncle Benny had been fishing most afternoons since they’d moved to the camp, but he hadn’t had any luck and blamed it on the weather and the time of year. She knew like everyone else in their camp that he mainly went fishing to get away and think about Tommy though. She sure felt sorry for him, losing his only son like that, and now she felt sorry for Mr. Holloway too. He

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