The Feral Sentence- Complete Box Set by Shade Owens

Author:Shade Owens [Owens, Shade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

“So it’s true?” Arenas finally asked.

It was like she’d been holding the question in ever since we’d found the dead bodies. She’d probably kept her mouth shut to keep the vomit from coming out. That hadn’t worked for everyone, though.

I was glad we were out from underneath that bloody scene. I’d learned to cope with dead bodies, but mutilated ones, that was a different story. And by the amount of bile that had come out of the women, they weren’t all that used to it either.

“The whole ‘Ogre’ thing,” Arenas pressed, forming air quotes beside her dark-skinned face.

“Ogre?” came Jack’s voice. With her fingers, she formed a hollow zero and placed it over her eyes, obviously trying to portray a one-eyed creature. She then let out a stupid laugh and stomped the weight of her body from one leg to the other.

What was she doing? She looked like a complete idiot.

“That’s actually a misconception,” Hammer said, matter-of-factly. The playful smile on Jack’s face vanished, and she dropped the whole one-eyed look and stared at Hammer. “It’s folklore,” Hammer continued, “and all it means is a man-eating giant.”

Jack, who seemed unimpressed with Hammer’s amount of knowledge, made her eyelids go flat.

“Gotta admit,” Coin chimed in, “Hammer’s right. Plenty of two-eyed ogres out there. Sounds to me like you’re generalizin’, girl.”

Jack rolled her eyes like a kid who’d been told to stop making funny faces because they weren’t funny.

I glared at all of them, but Johnson must have been the first to notice. In a sharp whisper, she said, “We aren’t safe yet, so shut up, all of you.”

The markings on the trees became inconsistent until finally, I couldn’t see any more. I slid my arrow back into my quiver and fastened my bow around my back.

“We may be off Ogre territory,” I said, turning to the women behind me, “but we’re still on Kormace Island. Stay focused.”

The jungle’s wildlife seemed to amplify as the women became quiet. Leaves rustled overhead, and I glanced up in time to see a capuchin monkey hopping from one branch to another. The air was hot and sticky as it usually was toward early afternoon. Fortunately, the greenery around us was far too dense for the sun to sink its rays into our skin.

Why hadn’t we seen an Ogre, anyway?

Were they hiding?

Did they only massacre women who were defenseless?

Cowards.

And who were those women we’d seen hanging from above? Our own? I couldn’t imagine they were, being that we were still pretty far from the Village. Murk wasn’t the type to let women venture far away from the Village.

Murk, I thought, remembering how her defeated body leaned forward, her arms strapped by the wrists. If only I’d had the courage to fight Zsasz—to kill her where she stood—I could have rescued Murk. But then, rationality kicked in, and I realized that even if I’d miraculously won a fight against Zsasz, there had been countless Northers outside, in front of the mountain.

How was Murk doing, anyway? Had

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