Hunted (Eden, #2) by Louise wise

Author:Louise wise
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: first contact, series, Beauty and the Beast, sci-fi romance, science fiction, adventure sci fi, romantic science fiction, soft sci fi, syfi, louise wise, survival stories, fast reading, action and adventure
Publisher: Louise wise
Published: 2013-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty Seven

Jenny pulled Diana off her breast and laid her down, covering her with a fur. Melinda and her baby were asleep next to her. An arm thrown out and a hand circled around her baby’s ankle, as if to ensure the baby would stay by her side. The tiny creature had begun to grow a down of fair hair all over its body, but despite the fur it still looked incredibly human.

Day five. Jenny drew in her knees and hugged them to her chest. She glanced towards the mouth of the cave. There had been constant activity all through the night, but it’d been unlike the usual activity of the night-time hunters. The honnards had been quiet and instead of bringing back the normal prey to eat they brought home larger animals with antlers or horns.

Jenny crawled to the entrance and pushed back the foliage curtain. She started with surprise in seeing so many honnards in the camp. They was sitting in groups all doing different chores: removing horns and antlers from dead animals, crushing bone and rock, sharpening bone and rock, skinning, peeling away sinew, cutting away hooves, skinning... nobody was talking. It was all very serious.

Jenny stood up and let the curtain of vine fall behind her. She walked around the camp and other than a few ‘chuff-chuffs’ of greeting the silence ensued. There were piles of bloody antlers and hooves, and severed animal legs that several honnards were scraping away at. Other honnards were bringing dried sinew out into the open and pounding the strands over rock. The result, to Jenny, was like dental floss. Others were cooking a syrup-like soup as they chewed on the dental floss. They spat the floss into the syrup, fished it out with sticks and handed the gloopy mess to a waiting honnard who used it to attach sharpened bone to wood. These newly-made spears were placed in the sun to dry.

Native-wolves began to fight over the body of a dismembered animal, breaking the strange silence until one ran off with part of it in its mouth. A honnard stood up and bellowed at the remaining wolves and they ran away.

‘Chi-Chi, huff, Che-lers, huff-chuff.’

Jenny looked round. It was Bo; the injury on his chest was uncovered and it looked to be scabbing over.

As he came towards her, she indicated the supply of stone and wood. ‘What’s going on?’

We’re making weapons.

‘Do you think the Jelvias will come back?’

We need to be cautious.

As Bo walked away, Jenny scanned the site. More large animals with antlers or horns were being dragged in. Honnards were organised into a kind of weaponry production line, and the piles of spears and hand weapons were growing steadily.

‘Oh, my god!’

The honnards weren’t just preparing for another visit from the Jelvias, they were preparing for war.

Melinda’s baby began to cry from inside the cave, the noise woke Diana and she let out an angry wail. Jenny crouched and peered inside the cave as Melinda scooped both babies up in her over-long, hairy arms.

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