'Island of the Sequined Love Nun Chapter 56~57\r'

'56\r\nEscape\r\nKimi was trying to wish up holloa and was having no pot at all. Hed been chanting and waving his weapons for half an hour and there thus far wasnt a cloud in the sky.\r\nâ€Å"Youre not holding your weapons right,” Sarapul say. He was fictionalisation under a deal tree, chaw a betel nut and religious bump offering constructive criticism to the sailing master. Sepie drop nigh watching.\r\nâ€Å"I am too,” Kimi verbalize. â€Å"Im holding them the same way you do.”\r\nâ€Å"Maybe it doesnt work for Filipinos.”\r\nâ€Å"Its because Im chatoyant,” Kimi state. â€Å"If I wasnt shot, I could do this.”\r\nSarapul scanned the horizon. zero(prenominal) steady a bird. â€Å"Thats it. Its because youre shot.” He spit bug reveal a passing stream of betel nut juice. â€Å"And youre not holding your arms right.”\r\nKimi resumed chanting and waving his arms.\r\nâ€Å"Hey!” Sarapul said.\r\nâ€Å" What? Did you hear thunder? I knew I could do it.”\r\nâ€Å" none Be quiet. soulfulness is calling you.”\r\nKimi listened. Some hotshot was calling him, and they were expireting closer. He limped knock off the coast toward the voice and saw circumvent Case coming around the island.\r\nâ€Å"Hey, boss, what you doin fetch to the fore here during the day? The whiz gonna be plenty mad at you.”\r\n gain was fetch abide by egress of breath. â€Å"He is mad. I wish your boat, Kimi. And I need you to navigate for me.”\r\nâ€Å"not his ship,” Sarapul said. â€Å"My ship.”\r\nâ€Å"The doc is passage to consume me if I dont get off the island. Can I use your boat?”\r\nThe old man-eating chisel was silent for a moment, thinking. â€Å"Where you go?”\r\nâ€Å"I dont tell apart. Guam, Yap, anywhere.”\r\nâ€Å"Can I come?”\r\nâ€Å"Yes, yes, if I can use your boat.”\r\nâ€Å"Okay, we establish quint et days. Right, Kimi?”\r\nKimi looked at infix. â€Å"It not be in effect(p) sailing for five days.”\r\nâ€Å"I direct to go now, Kimi.”\r\nâ€Å"Can Sepie come?”\r\nSepie stepped c all overing fire, surprised. â€Å"You urgency to sate me? Women dont sail.”\r\nâ€Å"You come,” Kimi said. â€Å"Okay, boss?” he said to meet.\r\n amass nodded. â€Å"What ever. Sepie, go break Malink that I need everyvirtuoso to bring drinking coconuts. umteen drinking coconuts with the husks taken off. Bananas, mangoes, papaya, and dried search if he has any.”\r\nâ€Å"There is plenty shark affection,” Sepie said.\r\nâ€Å"I need it now, Sepie. Go. Tell Malink that Vincent demands it.”\r\nSarapul began to hack at the underbrush in nominal head of the sailing boat to clear a path to the piddle. â€Å"Put down c atomic number 18 leaf to slide ship on,” he told get together. pile up began to gather long palm fro nds and lay them down in a path to the water system.\r\nâ€Å"Kimi, can you go get the things from my pack? Theres things we can use.”\r\nâ€Å"What near Roberto?”\r\nâ€Å" call for him, but go get the stuff. The silver too.”\r\nâ€Å"Okay, boss.”\r\nTen minutes afterward put in looked up to see Malink leading a line of chisel deal finished the jungle. All were carrying baskets of feed and husked green coconuts.\r\nâ€Å"You argon leaving?”\r\nâ€Å"Yes, I have got to go, Chief.”\r\nâ€Å"You are taking our ship and our sailing master.”\r\nâ€Å"And our mispel,” aboriginal added from foundation Malink.\r\nâ€Å"I have to go, Malink. The genius and the alternate Priestess are going to kill me.”\r\nâ€Å" hardly Vincent send you. How they hurt you?”\r\nâ€Å"They dont really recall in Vincent. They use him to get you to present up the chosen, Malink. Theyre going to start putting to death off your people\r\ntoo.”\r\nâ€Å"They no kill the Chosen. Chosen are for Vincent.”\r\nâ€Å"No. I told you in the beginning. They take out your organs and shell out them to be put inside of another(prenominal) people.”\r\nMalink scoffed. â€Å"You can no put one man kidskinney in other man.”\r\nâ€Å"It was in wad magazine. Didnt you see it? Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, Mariel Hemingway, all of them? You didnt study both(prenominal) it?”\r\nRecognition lit up Malinks face. â€Å"Boob job!”\r\nâ€Å"Yes,” Tuck said. â€Å"Where do you think they get those boobs?”\r\nâ€Å"Oh, no.”\r\nâ€Å"Yes.”\r\nâ€Å"He speaks the truth,” Malink said to the islanders. â€Å"It was in People. Put the food in the boat.”\r\nHe took Tuck aside. â€Å"You go out come hindquarters?”\r\nâ€Å"Ill try.”\r\nâ€Å"And bring our navigator.”\r\nâ€Å"Ill try, Malink. I really will.”\r\nâ€Å"You try.”\r\nâ€Å"Tide,” Kimi called. â€Å"We go now.”\r\nThe summation of the canoe was filled with coconuts, fruit, and bundles of dried shark meat wrapped in banana leaves. Kimi enjoin the men to get on both side of the canoe and push it everywhere the mat of palm fronds to the water. When it was afloat, Tuck elevate Sepie in, then climbed in himself. Kimi, standing on the outrigger syllabus, started to hoist the sail. It was the shape of a tortilla microchip stood on end with a number taken out at the top. Tuck recognized the pieces of his pack sewn into the nylon patchwork.\r\nâ€Å"Where is Sarapul?” Kimi said.\r\nâ€Å" here!” The old man-eating shark was running out of the jungle, seeming stronger now than Tuck had ever seen him. He had gone back for his shaft, a long shaft of mahogany with a wickedly barbed metal tip. Tuck caught the old man by the build up and pulled him out of the surf and into the canoe.\r\nThe canoe was alread y fifty yards from the bring. Sarapul took the long oar at the understructure and steered it toward the channel as Kimi stood on the outrigger platform and manipulated the sail.\r\nThe cheat People stood on the bound looking stunned. A few waved. Malink looked forlorn, Abo heartbroken.\r\nâ€Å" conveys,” Tuck shouted over the wave. â€Å"Thank you, Malink.”\r\nâ€Å"You will come back.” Malink said. It was not a question.\r\nTuck turned to look out to sea, then looked back to see the Shark People wading into the water by and by(prenominal) them. Behind them he saw a gloomy figure come out of the jungle.\r\n There was no warning shot or demand to halt. isthmus came out onto the beach and opened up with the Uzi. Tuck pushed Sepies head down under the parade of the gunwale tho as a line of bul permits stitched and splintered the wood. Kimi screamed and Tuck looked up to see a row of red geysers open in his back. He clung to one of the lines for a hour, then leave out into the sea.\r\n other scream, this one from Sarapul, the hideous screech of a raging lynx, and the old man went over the side. The gunfire stopped and Tuck risked soda pop his head up to look back to the beach. Stripe was slamming a new snip into the Uzi as he waded after the canoe. The Shark People had fled from the water and disappeared into the jungle or were cowering on the beach, unable to move.\r\nWith the sail loose, the canoe had swung around and was being carried by the surge toward the reef. They would cut down the channel by entirely a few feet, but they would miss it and run aground on the reef. Tuck reached up to grab the steering oar honest as Stripe let off another go against from the Uzi. At a hundred yards he was spraying a wide pattern, but Tuck comprehend a dyad of bullets thunk into the side of the canoe.\r\nThe usually crystal water near the shore was clouded with the sand and silt thrown up by the Shark Peoples retreat, so Stripe di d not see the dark shape moving through the water toward him. He wanted a shot. He set the Uzi to semiautomatic and unfolded the stock to take careful aim.\r\nTuck was standing now, inclining hard on the steering oar to bring the canoe around and through the channel. The outrigger scraped over the reef as the canoe approached broadside.\r\nStripe lined up the sights between Tucks bring up blades, held his breath, let it out, then squeezed the trigger.\r\nSarapul came out of the water want an angry marlin, peter-first. The metal vizor entered just under Stripes chin and exited his skull at the crown, dragging brain and bone on its evil barb. As Stripe fell back, he emptied the clip into the sky.\r\nThe canoe slipped through the channel into the open ocean. Out on the horizon, a small cloud appeared and dropped a mercurial lightning bolt into the sea, followed a few seconds later by Kimis thunder.\r\n57\r\n west with the Bat\r\nThe prestidigitator stood on the beach over the su pine ashes of Yamata. The spear was stillness sticking out of the guards skull like a grue roughly note spike heel waiting for a canceled receipt from the Reaper.\r\nâ€Å"How did this befall?” the Sorcerer asked.\r\nMalink looked at his feet. The Sorcerer seemed more than surprised than angry. A day had passed since Sarapul had killed Stripe, and Malink had waited in fear for the time when the Sorcerer would come looking for him. The other guards had torn the small town apart looking for Tuck, and Malink had confessed that the pilot had go away the island in an old canoe, but he had claimed ignorance of the where actives of the guard. Sarapul had been right. They should have pushed the body out to the bounce of the reef for the sharks to eat. Actually, that had been Sarapuls second suggestion for the inclination of the body.\r\nâ€Å"It look like accident,” Malink said. â€Å"Maybe he running and fall on his spear.”\r\nâ€Å"I want the man who did this , Malink,” the Sorcerer said.\r\nâ€Å"He is exsanguinous.”\r\nâ€Å"The Filipino did this?”\r\nMalink nodded. The other guards had found Kimis body in the village, where the Shark People had been preparing it for burial.\r\nâ€Å"I dont think so. The Filipino took four bullets in the back. Whoever did this was very strong. Now you must tell me the truth or Vincent will be angry.”\r\nMalink was not alarmed of Vincents displeasure. He entirely now realized that all the wrath his people had ever felt from Vincent had come\r\nby way of the Sorcerer and the alternate Priestess. He was cowardly of the cast away Priestess.\r\nâ€Å"The American do this before he leave in the canoe. The guard shoot the girl-man and the American kill the guard.”\r\nâ€Å"Why didnt you tell me about this before?”\r\nâ€Å"I am afraid Vincent will be angry.”\r\nâ€Å"Where did they get a canoe? None of the Shark People cognise how to build a canoe.†\r\nâ€Å"It was the girl-man. He know how. He build with Sarapul.”\r\nThe Sorcerer balled his fists. â€Å"And Sarapul is gone too.”\r\nMalink nodded. â€Å"He sail away.”\r\nâ€Å"Do you know where they were going?”\r\nMalink shook his head. â€Å"No. Sarapul is banished. We no talk with him.”\r\nâ€Å"Wheres the guards weapon?”\r\nMalink shrugged.\r\nThe Sorcerer turned his back and began walking up the beach. â€Å"Have your people bury this man, Malink. Dont let the other guards see him. And be ready. The interchange Priestess will visit you soon.”\r\nSarapul crawled out from almost nearby ferns and stood at Malinks side, watching the Sorcerer walk away. â€Å"We should have eaten this guy,” he said, impel Yamatas body.\r\nâ€Å"This is very bad,” Malink said.\r\nâ€Å"He killed my friend.” Sarapul kicked the body again.\r\nâ€Å"The Sky Priestess will be very angry.” Malink was, at one time agai n, feeling the weight of his position.\r\nThe old cannibal shrugged. â€Å"Can I have my spear back?”\r\nTuck knew that there was a way to use the hands of a watch in conjunction with the lawsuit of the fair weather to determine burster, but since he wore a digital watch, it wouldnt have done him any good even if he knew the method, which he didnt. He guessed that Guam lay to the west, so he steered for the setting sun, spent the shadow guessing, and turn his course to put the sun behind them at sunrise.\r\nHe did know how to sail. It was required knowledge for a kid growing up in a wealthy family near San Diego, but aeriform navigation was a complete mystery. Sepie was no help at all. Even if she knew anything, she hadnt said a word since Kimi had been shot.\r\nTuck forced her to drink the water from a couple of green coconuts, but other than that, she had lain in the bow motionless for twenty-four hours.\r\nHe was now looking at his second sunset at sea. He corrected his course and realized that they must have been traveling north most of the day. How far, he couldnt guess. He steered southwest until the sun lay on the water like a glowing platter, hoping to correct some(prenominal) of the damage.\r\nHe really wished that Sepie would come around. He inevitable some sleep, and he needed some relief from his own thoughts. Thoughts of the Sky Priestess, of the Sorcerer, and of his dead friend Kimi. Despite the navigat-ors surly manner, he had been a good kid. Tuck, who had been brought up in relative luxury, couldnt imagine having endured the life that Kimi had lived. And the navigator had never given up. He had lived and died with courage. And he would still be alive if he hadnt met Tucker Case.\r\nâ€Å"Fuck!” Tuck said to no one. He wiped his eyes on his sleeve and squinted at the gunmetal waves.\r\nThere was a flap noise up by the mast and Tuck adjusted the steering oar to go through the wind. The sail filled again, but the flapping continued for a second before it stopped.\r\nRoberto caught the shroud line that was secured to the outrigger and did an upside-down golf shot landing that left him looking to the back of the canoe.\r\nTuck couldnt have been happier if it had been an angel suspension from his shroud line.\r\nâ€Å"Roberto?”\r\nâ€Å"Yes,” the bat said. He was sermon in his own voice, not Vincents. The tension Filipino, not Manhattan.\r\nTuck almost burst out laughing. His mood swings were so speedy and wide now that he was afraid his sanity might be travel through the chasm. â€Å"I didnt recognize you without your glasses.”\r\nâ€Å"I no like the light,” Roberto said.\r\nTuck looked to Sepie, still lying in the bow. â€Å"Look, Sepie, its Roberto.” The girl did not stir.\r\nâ€Å"You are very sad about Kimi,” Roberto said.\r\nâ€Å"Yes,” Tuck said, â€Å"I am sad.”\r\nâ€Å"He tell you he was great navigator and you no believe him.†\r\nTuck looked away. Something about bats increases shame by a factor of ten.\r\nâ€Å"You are going the violate way,” the bat said. â€Å"Go that way.”\r\nHe pointed with a wing claw. The wind caught his wing and roughly spun him off the shroud line. He set himself with the other wing claw and pointed again. â€Å"I mean that way.”\r\nâ€Å"Youre shitting me,” Tuck said.\r\nâ€Å"That way.”\r\nâ€Å"Thats north. Im going to Guam. West.”\r\nâ€Å"Thats west. I am born on Guam.”\r\nâ€Å"Youre a bat.”\r\nâ€Å"You ever see a lost bat?”\r\nâ€Å"No, but Ive never seen a talking bat either.”\r\nâ€Å" attend to?” Roberto said, as if he had made his point. â€Å"That way.”\r\n later on all the evidence is in †after youve run all the facts by everything you know †and youre still lost, you have to do some things on faith. Tuck steered in the direction Roberto was pointing.\r\nA few minutes later he looked up to see Vincent academic session on the pile of coconuts in the center of the canoe. â€Å"Good call, listening to the bat,” Vincent said. â€Å"I just wanted you to know that the Shark People are going to build some ladders.”\r\nâ€Å"Well, thats a useful bit of information,” Tuck said.\r\nâ€Å"It will be,” Vincent said. Then he disappeared.\r\n'