Carol Emshwiller by The Mount
Author:The Mount
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-10T22:35:03+00:00
I make Little Master stay back with Jane so I can go down to those three young ones that I cut loose. They move closer to each other and away from me. The way they look at me youâd think I was older and wiser, but they have got to know a lot more, and more important, things than I do.
First I sitânot too closeâand donât say anything. They donât, either. They all three have painted-on mustaches, though it looks as if two have beginnings of their own real ones. I guess not good enough yet. They donât have misshapen mouths as my father and the older mounts mostly do.
Then, finally they askâand itâs my fatherâs question over again. âWhose side are you on?â
And then, âAre you a Wild or a Tame?â
And, âThat guard that almost killed you was our captain. Sheâs as bad as a Hoot gets.â
âI know that.â
âWe wouldnât have put up with her here.â
âI know.â
They all sputter a little but nothing like my father. And even to me they use signs. They take for granted that I know them. I pretend I do.
âHow did you get to be guardsâ mounts? What did you do?â
âWe were incorrigible.â
They leer. Theyâre proud of it.
âWeâre worse than any Wilds.â
âStill are.â
They start to laugh and snarl and make gestures as if theyâll leap-and-choke me, but I donât flinch. I donât like people to think Iâm a Wild. They think Wilds donât know anything, which they donât. I pull my lip up and out to prove Iâm not, and then I ask, âSo what did you do that was so bad?â
âRevolt. Big one.â
âWe killed Hoots.â
âAll of us did.â
âWhat about you?â
âYou mean me?â
âYou took a pretty good hit. Looks like maybe top-to-bottomâ
I have a lot on, but my leggings are too short. You can see my calf and ankle, and my cheek and my neck down to my collarbone.
First I feel proud, and I donât know what kind of lie to tell. I should have practiced one. But Iâm not on their side anyway. Only sort of, when it comes to what they wear, and how they march, banging down with their metal heels. I guess Iâm on a very small side, with only Little Master and me in it. I might as well stick up for us.
I point my chin up to where Little Master isâsitting on Janeâs lap now. It looks as if sheâs telling him a story, too. âI saved that baby Hoot,â I say.
The young oneâthat youngestâthe one I wanted most of all to be friends withâ¦.
Talk about fast as a rattlesnake or the leap-and-choke. He punches me. Two punches. One two. Before I have time to even think one. I fall back, about as hard as when my father threw me, but this time I get up fighting. Except heâs trained for it. He knows tricks and nasty punches to the wrong places. And he kicks. And he knows how to block. I donât come close to hitting him. Not even once.
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