This Broken Wondrous World by Jon Skovron

Author:Jon Skovron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

THE BALD LEMUR in the tuxedo escorted us back to the front door. Robert remained behind with Moreau. When we got outside, the night was no longer quiet. Off in the distance, behind Moreau’s house, where the fields of militant monsters were assembled, it sounded like a party was starting. Screeches, roars, and other animal noises mixed with laughter and shouting, and underneath was the pounding of drums. Bonfires flickered into life, casting shadows against the treetops that moved in jerks and spasms.

I heard a cough coming from the roof of the house. I turned, and just above the front door perched a raven with human hands instead of talons.

“Never,” it croaked.

“Can we please get out of here?” I asked.

The sounds of the beast people party continued as we slowly made our way back down the cliff and into the jungle. As time went on, the screeches grew louder and more frenetic, like the beast people were in pain.

“Are they fighting each other?” asked Claire.

“Mating,” said Mozart.

By the time we got back to the boat, the sounds were little more than distant echoes, mostly drowned out by the rolling waves as the tide came in. The sky was just beginning to lighten with the first red rays of dawn.

Red sky at morning, sailors take warning, I thought.

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