The Supervillain High Boxed Set: Books One - Three of the Supervillain High Series by Gehrke Gerhard

Author:Gehrke, Gerhard [Gehrke, Gerhard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lucas Ross Publishing
Published: 2017-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

15. Meat

Torben wasn’t going anywhere. He settled in at the front of his hut. The heat of the day weighed heavy, and most of the other villagers had returned and were in a similar state of languor. Lucille and Brendan sat on the sand in front of Kim’s hut. Brendan tried to keep an eye on the warlord while not looking directly at him. The man was nodding off. Kim had brought Torben water and a platter of fruits and goat meat.

“Let’s get out of here,” Lucille whispered.

“Don’t be crazy.” Brendan nodded towards some of the other villagers. “If they see us go, they’ll sound an alarm. Torben has them terrorized. He tortures and murders anyone who doesn’t obey him.”

“We can’t just sit here.”

“For now we can. We’ll only get one chance. It has to be the right one. Even the older villagers are stronger than us.”

Lucille looked at the platter of food by the warlord. “Maybe they’re going to starve us to death.”

As if in answer, two of the village women brought Lucille a small bowl of cut-up pieces of squash, green pepper, and green beans. There was no utensil, and Lucille started eating with her hands. When Brendan reached for the bowl, one of the women snapped, “It’s not for you.”

They sat attentively as Lucille ate. She picked up each piece of vegetable as if admiring it before popping it in her mouth.

Brendan caught her attention. “Did you…?” he began.

“Did I what?” she asked.

“Do something to them?” he hissed.

Lucille waved him off.

He shook his head in disgust. He tried to ignore his own stomach’s grumblings. One of the women brought Lucille water in a stemmed wine glass. The other left and returned with a garland of tiny white flowers that she draped around Lucille’s neck. She smoothed out Lucille’s hair and finger-combed it. It was unkempt from her swim and the day’s exertion.

“I don’t suppose you have any conditioner?” Lucille asked.

A third woman brought a large bowl with a cloth. The bowl held water with some kind of sweet herbs floating in it. The woman dipped the cloth in the bowl and proceeded to wash Lucille’s hands and feet along with an angry welt on one of the girl’s knees. Lucille allowed them to tend to her, a smile on her face. She was enjoying it.

Brendan couldn’t take his eyes off the blue tattoos the village women wore.

“Grapes?” Lucille asked.

One of the women fetched a small bowl of the green fruit. The others finished up their ministrations and set down a clean blanket for Lucille to sit on.

“Now if they only had air conditioning,” she said. One of her hands absently played with the garland.

Torben stirred. He gave some curt orders to one of the men. The sun was now low in the sky, the weight of the afternoon heat waning ever so slightly. Kim brought Brendan some water and a pomegranate.

“What’s going on?” Brendan asked.

“He’s not heading out today,” Kim said. “That’s the good news. But he’s going to have an ownership ceremony.

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