The Beak Speaks by Jeremy Strong

Author:Jeremy Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

9 Dinah: Spot the Dog

Are they deaf? Are they totally brain-dead? I tried to tell them, over and over again. I rattled my bars. I banged my beak. I gave myself a massive headache trying to get them to understand. I thought humans were supposed to be intelligent! I mean, there was Divine, right under their noses! The very woman who had almost killed me with a vacuum cleaner. And she knew who I was. Oh yes! I’d seen the way she looked at me.

I tried to tell them and what did they do? Did they listen? Did they say, ‘Ooh, dearie me, Dinah says you’re a nasty piece of work and we mustn’t listen to you’? What did they do? They shut me up!

Oh yes! Very clever, I don’t think. Humans, eh? What do you do with them?

Anyhow, once they’d got the cover on I thought I’d better sit there and listen. I might learn something. I might find out what she was up to. And I did. She’s going to start with Tammy. She’ll get her claws on her and then she’ll lure them over to The Dark House somehow, and that will be it – trap sprung!

Why couldn’t they see what was right under their noses? All they saw was how gorgeous she was, how beautiful, and didn’t she smell wonderful? Well no, actually, she didn’t. She stank. She stank of dead and dying animals.

I was in such a state of shock by the time Divine left that Mark took my cover off to see if I’d died or something.

‘What was all that noise about?’ he asked. ‘Why do you keep saying “darkuss”?’

‘House,’ I said, clearly and slowly, and I fixed him with one eye. ‘Dark House.’

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