Petaybee 3 - Power Play by McCaffrey Anne & Scarborough Elizabeth Ann

Author:McCaffrey, Anne & Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann [McCaffrey, Anne & Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Science Fiction - General, General, Fiction - Science Fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 0345387813
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-01-22T04:54:55+00:00

But Bunny knew she couldn't help Diego or the others by slowing down. She trudged back up the path she had made and then began laboriously cutting through the snow once more. It was heavy work and she was soon so weary that she felt like crying, but her tears would only freeze, making her more miserable. Wouldn't it be weird to have been freed from the pirates and finally return home, only to freeze to death before she could be found? With the new-falling snow masking the fading horizon, help could be quite close and they'd never know until they found her frozen corpse. And the others. It had happened more than once.

"Helllooo, anybody!" she called into the gathering darkness. "Steinte! It's me, Bunny! Is anybody there? Hellooo! Come and get me now!"

Then something that wasn't supposed to be possible happened. She was right out there in the open air, not in a cave or a valley, and an echo picked up her voice, the way it had a few weeks earlier when Phon Tho visited, the way it had at Yana and Sean's wedding.

"HELLOO, IT'S ME, ME, ME, ME..." the echo said.

And then it blended with a somewhat smaller voice, "MEOW MEOW meow!" a cat's mew complaining over and over again.

Bunny called back, glad to hear the cat. Did that mean that Clodagh was behind? But no, the cat was alone, appearing off to the right like a little pinpoint of orange flame at first, crying impatiently for her to hurry forward. When Bunny backtracked to get the others, the cat sat at the end of the trail she had made, waiting for them.

"We're saved!" she told Yana. "A cat came for us!"

"Good," Megenda said. "How do you cook 'em?"

"You don't," Diego said. "You follow them."

"I've heard of a wild-goose chase, but this is ridiculous," Dinah said. Bunny turned her back on them and returned to the end of her trail. As soon as it saw her the cat sashayed forward, tail held low to protect the tenderest parts and brushing the snow. Single file, they slogged forward after it.

The distant lights of Tanana Bay appeared just about the time some of the party were thinking that perhaps they'd do better for a bit of a rest, despite the fact that night had already fallen and the air was growing colder by the minute, knifing through their skin until at last they were too numb to feel the pain. Only the luminous eyes of the cat guided them when it turned in its tracks to regard them with impatience. Didn't they realize it had supper waiting and a nap to take?

The feeling in Bunny's legs had drained away some time earlier, though she continued to piston them in and out of the snow while the others followed. Once they spotted the cabins, the cat cast her a glance, then scampered away to disappear into the town.

The welcome sight of cabins revived the flagging energies of everyone in the party.

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