Key Weirder by Robert Tacoma

Author:Robert Tacoma
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789085241522
Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Published: 2004-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Sara

Sara tried to relax, but she was still anxious. There were a lot of things she needed to know if she was going into the Everglades by herself to find the old treasure hunter Mr. Willie told her about. The evening before she’d spent at the home of the two Willie’s, eating some fine food and listening to stories about boats and the sea. Along with the sea stories were some detailed instructions on navigation and boat engines.

They stayed up late, and when she finally got to sleep on the lumpy old couch, her dreams were of Charlie and the powerspot where the monument had been.

♦

Willie had never seen Key West so busy. People were buying his shells at a record pace, and he hardly had time to think about much else, but he did. He thought about Sara and their talk the night before. At first, there were some serious doubts in his mind about a woman going into the Everglades by herself, but he soon realized this particular young woman was different. As they sat around a low table on the screened porch, he found her to be an excellent student, totally concentrated on everything he said.

“This be a chart. Shows this Key West and Keys here, and all this up here what they be calling Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades. They no cities at all in this whole area here. No stores, no roads, no houses and no people even. They no bathrooms, neither.”

Willie wanted to make it clear what this little woman was getting herself into. Sara just shrugged and kept looking at the chart. She asked all the right questions and more than once he had to call on memories of experiences he hadn’t thought about in years.

His grandson usually paid no mind to his stories, but he sat quietly the whole evening learning about tides, wind, waves, the moon and the sun. Maybe he was starting to grow up a little, or maybe he too could feel something in the air around this mysterious young woman with the two gold idols.

♦

Sara was sitting in the shade behind the two shell merchants, anxiously thinking about her upcoming trip, when Carol and Jeremy walked by. She’d been expecting Carol to come after her, but it was still a shock to see the tall, shapely woman dressed like a lingerie model walking down the street twenty feet away with fat little Jeremy in tow. They didn’t notice her sitting there, no one did.

Arrangements had been made the day before to rent a boat, and Willie was going to show Sara how to operate it after they closed up shop. Since it looked like they were going to be sold out of everything soon, the hands-on lessons might be starting early.

“You ready for a boat ride, little lady?” The senior Willie flashed a big smile full of gold. “It be a mighty fine looking day! We get moving here, you might be getting on the water early enough to go on up today!”

Sara stood up and stretched.

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