Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo & Joshua Swanson

Author:Robert Liparulo & Joshua Swanson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Remodeling & Renovation, House & Home, Family, Action & Adventure, Paranormal Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, ebook, Paranormal, Fantasy & Magic, General, Science Fiction, supernatural, Dwellings, Siblings, Fiction, Science & Technology, Time travel, Brothers and Sisters
ISBN: 9781441777621
Publisher: Playaway
Published: 2009-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

thirty - one

“Try this one.” Xander pointed his thumb at the tent with the waiting room stones.

David flipped open the flap. Four soldiers sat or lay on tables. One of them was getting his arm stitched. A nurse tugged at the thread. She stopped to address David. “Life threatening?”

“No, sorry.” He backed out. “Come on,” he told Xander. He went to the next tent and peeked in. A man was sitting on a cot, slipping a leg into a pair of pants. David said, “Excuse me.”

From outside the next tent in line, he heard a man screaming. He turned to Xander, who was watching the soldiers at the head of the camp. “This is it!”

“Hurry.”

David pushed through. A man lay on a table, convulsing.

Blood jutted from a wound in his neck. His screams became gurgles. A woman in a nurse’s hat and blood-covered smock pressed a cloth to another injury in the man’s chest. She looked up quickly.

“Boy!” she yelled. “You must fetch Dr. Scott. Two tents down. Hurry!” Her head gestured toward the rear of the camp.

“Got it!” he said, and ran out. He hooked right and shot to the second tent over. He threw open the flap and stomped in. “Dr. Scott!” he yelled.

Men occupied six cots. Bandages covered various parts of their bodies. A nurse knelt close to one. She was holding a spoon to his lips and whispering to him. Her back was to David, but something about her sent an icy-footed centipede scampering up his spine. He froze in place, watching her try to coax the man into taking a bite.

“Dr. Scott is not here!”

The woman’s voice jarred David out of his trance. Another nurse sat on a cot on the opposite side. She held a folded cloth to a patient’s head and was staring at David.

He said, “But . . . we need him!”

“He left ten minutes ago,” the nurse said. “I don’t know where he went.”

He pushed out of the tent.

“Can we go now?” Xander said.

“He wasn’t there,” David said. He ran back to the tent with the severely injured soldier.

“He’s not there!” he yelled at the nurse. “Where is he?”

“I don’t know!” She closed her eyes and shook her head. When her eyes opened, they pierced David. “Try his quarters,” she said. “Last tent on the left.”

He spun out of the tent. The blanket snagged on the flap and slipped off his shoulders. He didn’t stop to retrieve it.

Behind him, the nurse yelled, “Tell him it’s Major Rawlins!”

Xander grabbed his arm. “Don’t run,” he said, and looked toward the front of the camp. A group of about ten soldiers had gathered. All of them had eyes turned on the boys.

“Great,” David said. “Stay here so it doesn’t look like we’re escaping.” As fast as he dared, he walked to the last tent on the other side. “Dr. Scott?” he said and pushed the flap aside. A man with a trimmed silver beard rested on a cot. A bloody smock lay crumpled on the dirt floor next to him.

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