Wish You Were Here by Tom Holt

Author:Tom Holt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-11T17:41:40+00:00

‘Sssh!’

‘Oh, shut up,’ Wesley hissed back over his shoulder. ‘It’s all right for you, you’re a ghost. You don’t weigh anything, and if you fall off it won’t actually matter. In my case—’

‘Look!’

Wesley craned his neck over the lip of the ledge, and peered as far as he could into the cave. ‘Oh, skit,’ he whispered.

‘You found him!’

‘Yes,’ replied Wesley, thoughtfully. ‘So I have.’

‘And he’s about to eat the girl.’

‘Could be. Could be. However, let’s not jump to—’

The ghost hopped up onto the ledge, drew his bow and shot three arrows in the time it takes to blow one’s nose. ‘Look at that grouping,’ he sighed. ‘You could cover all three with a quarter. Pity.’

‘Yes,’ Wesley agreed. ‘Quite.’

The Indian flattened himself against the rock. ‘OK,’ he said, ‘your turn. All you’ve gotta do is sneak up behind him with that chunk of rock and flatten him.’

‘That’s all, huh?’

‘Sure. Ain’t life just full of anticlimaxes?’

Wesley reached out and wrapped his hand around the chunk of rock indicated. ‘I’m not sure about this,’ he muttered, ‘ecologically speaking, I mean. I’m sure I read somewhere that eagles are protected.’

‘Not this kind. I refer you to the Protection of Birds Act 1977, section 42, subsection 4(b). Go get the fucker.’

‘Right,’ sighed Wesley. ‘Here goes.’

Rock in hand, he crawled forward.

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