The Journey of Joenes by Sheckley Robert

Author:Sheckley, Robert [Sheckley, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

The hunters were too weary to celebrate the Beast’s defeat. They went silently to their cabins.

The witch doctor said to his assistants, “I hope you’ve had the sense to learn something from this. When skull exorcism is called for, the prepared skull, or aharbitus, must strike the center of the Beast’s chest. No other blow will do, but will simply augment the fury of the creature. Tomorrow we will study three-bodies exorcism, for which there is a very pretty ritual.” Then he left.

Joenes lifted the still unconscious Laka and brought her back to his own cabin. As soon as the door was closed, Laka came to her senses and showered Joenes with kisses. Joenes pushed her away, telling her not to do violence to her feelings, nor to arouse his. But Laka declared that she was a changed woman, even if the change were only temporary. The sight of the Beast, she said, and of Joenes’s bravery in rescuing her, had moved her to the depths of her being. Also, poor Lunu’s death had shown her the value of passion in an ephemeral existence.

Joenes had his suspicions about these reasons, but there was no denying the fact that Laka had changed. Her eyes gleamed, and with a sudden leap reminiscent of the Beast’s spring, she fell upon Joenes and toppled him on to the bed of pine boughs.

Joenes decided that, little as he knew of men, he knew, even less of women. Also, the pine boughs hurt his back abominably. But soon he forgot his pain and his lack of knowledge. Both became exceedingly unimportant, and he did not think about them again until dawn flooded the cabin with light, and Laka slipped away to return to her own cabin.

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