The Training Master by Mark Crilley

Author:Mark Crilley [Crilley, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-51087-7
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2005-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Dregger was a little startled by my question, as though a response from me was against the rules of his little game.

“Plaptoll,” he said. “What about it?”

“Earthians eat Plaptollian arms for breakfast, you know,” I said to him. “We turn them into sausage. Fry them in oil.”

He looked truly horrified for a moment, then laughed nervously. “She’s a joker, guys,” he said, turning back to the other members of his group. “We got ourselves a joker here!” He stopped following me, though, and that was the last I heard out of him for the evening.

By the time I’d waded through the swamp and crawled into my hole, I thought I’d be asleep within seconds. There was one thing keeping me awake, though: hunger, hunger like I’d never felt in my life. Skipping dinner the previous night had been a mistake. Skipping lunch … well, that had been an act of sheer insanity. When Grunn Grung arrived with my evening bucket of slop, I grabbed it from him and started wolfing it down without even pausing to look at it.

“Seeeeee?” said Grunn Grung. “You eeeaaat. You eeeaaaat.”

I don’t even want to say what it tasted like: moldy cheese, stewed pig livers … nothing’s quite disgusting enough to make a good comparison. But who cares? It was food. I ate every last morsel of it and licked the sides of the bucket clean. I’d have licked the bottom but my tongue wasn’t long enough.

“Gooooooood,” said Grunn Grung when he returned to collect the bucket. “Noooow … you sleeeeeeep.”

I fell back and rested my head on the cold, wet stones.

My first day, I thought. This was just my first day. I’ve got six more to go.

I closed my eyes.

I’m never going to make it.

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