Thunder Run by Daniel José Older

Author:Daniel José Older [José Older, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2020-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

“THAT DUDE IS so weird,” Mapper said as Bonfouca carried them through the midnight streets of New Orleans.

Old Rose laughed. “He is indeed, young Mapper. He is indeed.”

Tiny dinos scurried through puddles, tumbling and squeaking at each other, chasing rats and scrounging for scraps. It was a cloudy night, and the darkness seemed to consume everything. Dim gas lanterns glinted on each corner; shadows ruled the city.

Magdalys’s mind moved a million miles an hour. What had it all meant? She’d never been able to talk to someone so deeply about her abilities. She’d never been able to make sense of them. It had all felt like trial and error, stumbling through the darkness. It must’ve been like that for most people who could do what she could. Connecting to dinos was just a magical power of old or whatever. Seemed like most people hid their skills, like Hannibal had. It was only now governments were starting to recognize the military potential of having a true dinowarrior on their side. And of course, the Confederates were ahead of the game on that.

“You’ve known him a long time?” Mapper asked.

“Oh, child … almost my whole life,” Rose said. She sighed. “Nearly killed him a few times.”

“Go on …”

But now Magdalys had a chance to learn, really learn, and understand the power she wielded. She felt woozy with the thought. Sure, asking him to teach her had just been a ruse at first, and she still planned to convince him to join her crew somehow, but … he had answers! He was a candle in the night. And if she started learning this young, who knew what she could do….

“Ah, those were different times,” Rose said. “We’ve seen so many times in this little city of ours, you know. Been a tumultuous start, you could say. But we’re still here and we’re not going anywhere. I don’t have any plans to kill that old goat anytime soon, so hopefully you can learn a few things from him.”

“Wait, did you guys fight on opposite sides of a war?” Magdalys asked, suddenly interested. There hadn’t been a major war since the forties, when the US invaded Mexico and captured a huge chunk of their territory. But there were always small battles erupting here and there.

“Heh, no, dearie, there are other things besides war that make people want to strangle each other.”

A moment passed, and the sound of Bonfouca’s clomping feet and the rattle of Old Rose’s cooking equipment filled the warm night air amidst Minuette’s quiet snores.

“I don’t mean, ah, actually strangle, you know,” Rose said into the quietness. “I mean metaphorically, of course. Just, ah, to be clear.”

“Sure you do,” Mapper said.

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