The Wolfmen of Kielder: Bitten: An Apocalyptic Horror Survival Series (Lycan Plague Origins Book 1) by Rebecca Fernfield

Author:Rebecca Fernfield [Fernfield, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Redbegga
Published: 2018-11-26T22:00:00+00:00

As Lois finishes tearing at the roe deer and makes her way through the woods, Javeen replaces the phone’s receiver. Her hand aches with taking down yet another report of noises coming from the woodlands. The door opens and a man stamps in. His boots leave a muddy print on the mat, his hands rests on the open door.

“Where’s Stangton?”

Javeen forces a smile. Thomas Burdon’s frustration leaks from him. To diffuse the situation, she’ll need to stay calm and be non-confrontational. “He’s out on a call. Can I help?”

“Come out and see.” He disappears back out into the gathering gloom. The sun is sinking rapidly and a mist has rolled in from the forest to settle across the village. As she steps outside, he’s already at his Land Rover. Coupled to it is a low-sided trailer. Javeen can tell from his pursed lips and grim demeanour that he wants her to look inside.

As she approaches, the smell of sheep rises to her nostrils and she makes her best effort not to make it obvious that the stench is offensive. At the side of the trailer, she realises why the reek is so bad. Lying on its bed are three full-grown sheep. Blood has soaked into their wool, clotted and crimson in places, in others a dark pink. The stench of their ruptured intestines, which roll like thick, grey worms from their bellies, clings to Javeen’s nostrils. She moves her head to the side in an effort to suck in clean air.

“Aye, it’s a sorry sight.”

“Are these your sheep, Mr. Burdon?” She knows that they are. Thomas Burdon was one of three hill farmers that had farmed the land for generations in the immediate vicinity of Kielder village.

“Aye. You can see from them markings,” he stabs a finger at the nearly luminous green splodges of dye on the animal’s fleece, “that they’re mine. The ear tags’ll prove it. They’re identified with DEFRA.”

“Have you any idea what did this to them?”

“Have I any idea? Damned right I do. It’s them lynx that were introduced back into the forest. I said this would happen. I told them,” he rages. “I even told them about the one that escaped from the zoo in Wales and went on a killing spree, but did they listen? No, they did not, and this,” he stabs a finger at the sheep, “is what happens. I even went to the National Parks meeting they set up about it and told them. Didn’t listen though, did they. Now look!”

The next half an hour is spent with Thomas Burdon taking his statement, making him a coffee, reassuring him that the matter would be taken seriously, and photographing the sheep, before the farmer went back up to his hillside farm, muttering about compensation, and the ‘bloody idiots at the Lynx Trust putting a bloody bunch of cats’ before his livestock and his family.

Javeen had listened as he’d made his complaints, nodded in the right places, taken notes, and wondered if a lynx could really do that type of damage to a sheep.

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