Western Lights · #6
A Tangle in Slops
STRANGE DOINGS AT ORKNEY FARM...
Round a corner of the house it came – a huge, ungainly form, shambling along on its four oddly-curved, paddle-like limbs. A deep-voiced growl could be heard rumbling in its throat.
The moon's silvered beams were shining full upon it, when of a suddenty the monster reared up onto its haunches and stood a while observing us.
"We must have our revenge!" sang out Stroppy, who of the lads appeared the more inebriated. "For the Foud's sake, have a taste o' this, ye brute!"
In a fit of courage he drew an object from his pocket and hurled it at the beast – a large, well-aimed object, which sailed like a shot from his hand and struck the looming giant square in the face...
Round a corner of the house it came – a huge, ungainly form, shambling along on its four oddly-curved, paddle-like limbs. A deep-voiced growl could be heard rumbling in its throat.
The moon's silvered beams were shining full upon it, when of a suddenty the monster reared up onto its haunches and stood a while observing us.
"We must have our revenge!" sang out Stroppy, who of the lads appeared the more inebriated. "For the Foud's sake, have a taste o' this, ye brute!"
In a fit of courage he drew an object from his pocket and hurled it at the beast – a large, well-aimed object, which sailed like a shot from his hand and struck the looming giant square in the face...
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The Western Lights books are set in an Ice Age America that might have been, had historical – and prehistorical – events taken a different course. The imagined landscape of the series encompasses the western coast of North America, from what is now lower British Columbia to approximately San Diego.
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