The Crocodile Tomb by Michelle Paver

Author:Michelle Paver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

The lion cub was desperate to leave this horrible land and never come back.

She’d had enough of flies, river pigs and giant lizards. For the boy’s sake, she’d braved the strange humans – even the one who was missing his forepaw and whose mane came right off when he scratched his head. She’d endured many Lights and Darks on that wobbly bundle of reeds which gave her a nasty feeling, as if she was going to sick up a furball, but never did. And when the boy and the girl had got into another bundle of reeds and crossed the Great Wet, she’d seized her courage by the scruff and swum after them.

But now, just as she’d shaken the wet from her pelt, they’d crossed the Great Wet again. She dared not swim after them this time, not even for the boy. There were too many humans over there. She was simply too scared.

Why was everything so chewed up? It was harder and harder to keep the pride together. As soon as she’d got used to the dark boy, he’d left, and now some terrible sadness was gnawing the girl, biting so deep that not even a muzzle-rub could help. What made things even worse was that the falcon was so distracted by all the ducks that it didn’t seem to bother her that the pride was falling apart.

Mewing in distress, the lion cub prowled the bank. The boy hadn’t called for her, and she sensed that he wanted her to stay on this side, which made her feel even more left out.

What was he doing over there? Couldn’t he smell that there were far too many humans? Why couldn’t he stay here, among the lairs of the dead ones, and the ghosts, who were no bother to anyone?

The falcon alighted on her back and companionably pecked off some ticks. The lion cub envied the falcon. She never got scared. Why would she, when she could fly away whenever she wanted?

Besides, the falcon actually liked this awful place.

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