![]() "Did it go under the raft? Is it under us?"ĭon't look right at it, the colors make you loopy" He had also succeeded in scaring himself. "Next month, yeah," Randy said, and shut his mouth with a snap. ![]() His nose flared with pain, he felt blood run warmly down his face, and then he was able to step back, crying out: "Don't look at it Randy realized he was going to fall over, fall right into it, he could feel himself tilting out- With the last of his strength he brought his right fist up into his own nose-the gesture of a man stifling a cough, only a little high and a lot hard. It rose and fell with the waves and that changed the colors, made them swirl and blend. It came with an oily, frightening speed, and as it did, Randy saw the colors Rachel had seen-fantastic reds and yellows and blues spiraling across an ebony surface like limp plastic' or dark, lithe Naugahyde. Her lips made a pathetic, loose little smile. "Maybe it'll leave us alone," LaVerne said. His short hair was still dripping a little. Then Deke stepped back a little and the raft stabilized, with the left front corner (as they faced the shoreline) dipped down slightly more than the rest of the raft.ĭeke stood thoughtfully, head bent. Deke came to where Randy was and for a moment the raft tilted, scaring Randy's heart into a gallop and making LaVerne scream again. ![]() leave us alone." Deke said, "Maybe pigs will-" "It's moving," Randy said.ĭeke looked at him, his face full of a fierce concentration in the gloom. "If it's under there I've got a good chance." "I'm going to swim for it right now," he said. "If there's a caretaker, he probably pops by here on a bimonthly basis." "Nothing to steal, nothing to vandalize," he said. We're hardly in the middle of the Australian Outback, are we, Randy?" Randy said nothing. "If we have to spend the night out here, we do. "Shut your pie-hole," Deke said absently, and Randy laughed in spite of himself-no matter how many times Deke said that, it always slew him.
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