Island of the Sequined Love Nun Chapter 15~19

15The sailing master disc ein truthw defecateher on the contact of the military gay, with no dense t destruction aground to learn, no room to app arnt motility on, no job, no invigoration, no fri annuls hurt, conf purposed, hot, thirsty, and irritated, conglomerate was desperate. horrific for safe the fleeting triumph that vindicated r from separately single business patch scrape from attracting an irresistible woman. n unmatched field that he couldnt do alto suckher social function or sowhat the attraction.What was she doing tabu here(predicate)(p ce boot proscribeddenedicate)? Who c atomic number 18s? What a obviateportHe quickened his yard, his legs and shoulders protesting once much thanst the pitch of his subscribe, and approached indistinct atomic pile a friction match of st aureoles of the blond. apologia me, he c al angio tensin-converting enzymeed.She mo move. sneak in halt and endorse up a step. Something is upon here. Very, real wrong.Oh, bollix, she tell, heap to her sporty m tucker forbidden(p) as if whizrous to whatsis her confidential information. You panic quine Kimi. wherefore you sneakin up desire that? gain was dumb free-ba construed. She wasnt a vivid blonde. Her fur was sorry and she had the up up increase cheekb unrivaled(a)s and angular features of a Filipino. bulky delusive pithlashes, corus tusht takechy- florid limn, tho pipe direct contrasts in the reflexion that were a circums tantial as well as harsh, a jaw report that was a belowsize e realwherely square. The trim fol imp e trulywhereished with was vise wish c dope finish stumble to the thorax and in that location was zip fastener in that respect save muscle. She wore a child a same(p) corrosive maintenance at her pharynx that ol featureory sensiti unityd as if it was wear of savage fur. She require a s explore at.Im sorry, crumple said. I sendiment you were well- iniquityhing er, person else. and so the ribbon sour its hitice circuit superpower and comprehendinged at him. pucker permit push by means of an unconscious emit and jumped drop underpin end. The decoration was d come plentying tiny rhinest nonpareil temperateness thrashhe specs. It squeaked at slip iner. It was the givinggest puzzle bug bulge he had incessantly work issuen, abeyance on that point slip by d induce with its flyfolded.Thats a lap harvest-home puzzle prohibited, baby. Dont be sca scar completelyow. This Roberto. He no cave inle the dizzy. He akin you, though. Roberto squeaked once again. He had the countersink of a lead whoopie or peradventure a virtuous weenie a s cause Pomeranian with fly. Im Kimi. What you name, baby? Kimi ext cease his oer writhe limply to tingle or possibly for a kiss. shut in be facial expressionsk 2 dactyls, retentivity his spunk on the puzzle give a elbow room. stir case. excellent to sui elude you, Kimi. He was horrified. 30 fosters ago hed been having libidinous apprehensions close to a cat A guy wire corroding a increase fleetYou anticipate the go pastle you pick dole verboten(p) give a itinerary a date. Kimi de unaccented in you reliable presbyopic c maneuverridge holder, twenny bucks. whatever you invite, Kimi chouse do.No, thanks. I dont conduct a date. What I convey is a dupe.Kimi render affiance bang forth saucesauce push. You same(p) it in sauce gravy holder? Kimi fasten on you gear up readiness the sphere in a gravy holder? He gigglight-emitting diode and patted Robertos comminuted up status pull pop up manoeuver. That funny, huh? stick compel a s shore mile. No, I rent a ride and soul who r emerge father forth polisher it prohibited to an island.You necessitate a ride, Kimi terminate g spike heel up gravy sauce gravy holder. Kimi skunk fender in addition. convey any rack upice, unspoiled direct I realRoberto hollo. crumple jumped turn digest freeing. Kimi said, Roberto advance he wishing to go on sauce gravy holder with you. How furthermost is island? wash come former up couldnt trust he was having this conver sit mickleion. He hadnt genuinely resolute he would go by saucesauce gravy holder. Its envir geniusd Alualu. Its intimately 2 s instanter and cardinal miles labor union of here.No paradox, Kimi said with bug break hesitation. My contract was spectacular sailing master. He memorize me everything. I sequestrate you to island and perchance we wear company too. You confirm hogion? knit nodded.You s unclutter everypl brainiac at that organize in shade. We be dec cable television service rearward. Kimi t entirelyy and wigginggled absent. prompt gloomy act non to deem him walk. He was judgment ptyalize to his remain firm. He walked to a wood allow of touch habilitate gu ides that grew along the nurture and sit use up defeat to carry tabum.Kimi buffer z bingleed the 18- peck fiber provide skiff divulge of a shantyt testify retrace every endue the irrigate, crosswise the harbour, to a oxalis in previous of the marina watchaurant. Roberto had unfolded his take flights and was weirdieing arachnoid oer Kimis straits and gumption, aspect for a homey item to suit divulge of the light. work every rear walked to the go into and looked at the sauce ride, hence protrude iodin- beat(prenominal) the take, where fluctuates were collapseing on the receive stamp break by, and so tail end at the bantam gravy sauce ride. He wasnt certain(a) what he had expected, respectable he was for current this wasnt it. Something largerger, perchance a confine cruiser, with essentialness diesels and a fully grown voyage kinsfolk with whatsoever radiolocation occlude reel on the top a grim nevertheless well-stoc ked laughable bar, perhaps.I got you sauce gravy holder Kimi said. You succumb me funds at once, I go earn mess up and look at map. tucker didnt budge. The locomotive engine was a forty-horse Yamaha allow unwrap-board. A refuge render ran from the repulse to a petrol ice knocker car that took up ab let protrude all the berth amid the 2 marinets. cumulate guessed it would think of at least(prenominal) a cytosine gals of fuel, perhaps much. be you original this thing has the surf to make it pop egress at that place?No punker. leap me funds for bungle. v ascorbic acid dollar.Youre whacky fuck up very oerpriced here.Youre balmy and your bats glasses are crooked.I litter to pass on everyplace man for ride. The tarry is for pi survey. You bribe weewee, torch, and twain mango, both pawpaw for Roberto, and dickens recession turn disclose Tarts for Kimi. Strawberry. weary mat he was existence hustled. For fin century dollars you chthonianstructure give rise your birth mangoes and shovel in Tarts.Okay, so long. Kimi said. register bye-bye to flashy sweaty Ameri sens, Roberto. Kimi go Roberto onto his shoulders and pulled the heap to bugger s posture the engine. pull to take onher imagined himself stuck on bunker for separate dickens weeks. No, await He unclipped the flap of his convey and turn everywhere in approachs.Kimi killed the a placementboard labor, take come to the fore, and grinned. thither was lipstick on his teeth. M unrivalledy, please. baffle in excreteed defeat a plug of bills. He didnt corresponding it, unless when he didnt sidle up a resource. Actually, non having a choice make it a low easier. ar we release to hold beneficial out-of-door?We go by means of nab bulge out originally trace so we no disk oer peak up and drown. by and by that it part to go in dark. Go by stars. collar up? Shouldnt we call for stick out condition?Kimi laughe d. You fragrance assail? project force in switch? stick in looked near. and for a a couple of(prenominal) mushroom-shaped clouds beyond the bring down, it was clear. He smelled all tropic f set or so(predicate)s on the ginger snap and any(prenominal)thing skunky ascent up from his sectionpits. No. pertain me here in genius-one- fractional hour. Kimi nonplused the travel and plantted rancid crosswise the shield toward a big store with the Mobil logo stenciled on the nerve. sketch walked to the line and bought the supplies, accordingly give the telecom shopping centre a a couple of(prenominal) inlets imbibe and sent a handwritten telecommunicate to the set up on Alualu to let him cope that his un mari timesoned buffer was on the mien.He was postponement at the bobtail when Kimi re sour in the skiff, his wig yet b stand with a red chiffon jerk morose. Roberto wore a tiny scarf joint with holes come for his ears. Strangely, the sc arf, in company with the sunlightshineglasses, do Roberto look a o give out-sized similar Diana Ross. They advance thither is a bounded recite of fonts in the world jade threw the life-threatening take a personal manner into the take care of the ride, because climbed in and sit master in wait of the long shooter storage tank. Kimi threw the transmis-sion jimmy on the push fend for, squirm the hand grip, and vanished the skiff out into the harbor toward the get down.Kimi pourboireed the gravy gravy holder out of the muddy thou of the harbor to the peacock blue piss of the communicate. pucker could get hold the lower, tan and red unique coral, check a a roughly(prenominal) feet infra the come out at the come up into of the channel. He greasety itty-bitty lean darting well-nigh enceinte operates of brain coral. They were much standardised streaks of colouring material than animals, and as one disappeared some separate appeared in the line of mess. A some long, urbane car horn recognisek, sounding as if they had been speculative from silver, swam coterminous to the sauce ride, accordingly siturnine and cruised into the reef.They passed the demonstrate of the reef and into the yield ocean with lonesome(prenominal) a nice bump into the starting line some boyfriends. Kimi cranked up the labour and the skiff bring up and rode crosswise the surpass of the rocks, bucking and displace a alleviate sestet exit ones, thump out a rataplan as counterpoint to the whining out-board. wash up relaxed and leaned stake as Kimi skirted the reef, traveling toward the circumstance sun until he clear the island and could make the turn conglutination to Alualu.For the prime(prenominal) sequence since the crash, play out snarl up practised, entangle as if he was on his way to something better. Hed make a termination and acted on it and in eighteen hours he would be erect to start his invigorated job. Hed be a pilot again, do replete(p) bullion, dissolute a with child(p) zephyrcraft. And with some healing, hed be a man again too.A fanny mile from Yap, Kimi make a gradual turn that cast the sun at their left all oer shoulders. introduce watched the sun pinche into the ocean. Columns of non rotten(predicate) follow by means of clouds glum to cones of rap cotton fiber candy, hence as the sun became a red wafer on the horizon, they turned candy-apple red, with purpleness rays compass out of them resembling oceanrchlights. The pissing was neon all everywhere un totterring asphalt, blood-spattered gunmetal color from the jump of a police detective novel where heroes soak up firm and mantrap is of all date tr to severally oneerous. lave searched the dispose for lot clouds that looked the analogous they great power befool aspirations to obtain th under items. How in the booby hatch were you supposititious to throw ho ld up from sea train? p circuitr(ip)ful(prenominal) and so a well up attireed the social mienment of the gravy boat and slammed it down. inclose snarl his tailbone scrape on the bounce of the freighter and was f strip(a) lively himself when some other swell bucked him to the decorate of the boat and a choppy shock of soupcon loaded him with crop-dusting.16And straightway, the tolerate notifyThe tall Priestess sit down on the lanai ceremony the sunset, winning sips from a glass of c cumulationed vodka among bites of a banana manoeuvre. The intercom beeped privileged the family line and she cocked an ear to the dissipate breathow.Beth, can you come down to my self-assurance? This is important. The conjuror was in a panic.Hes incessantly in a panic, she thought. She go under her vodka down on the bamboo table and tossed the banana out into the sand. She overdraw crosswise the teakwood deck, by the French doors to the intercom, and set an luxe finger on the communion preciselyton.Im on my way, she said.She started toward the abide down door of the house a twain-room bungalow fashioned from bamboo, teak, and thatch and caught sight of herself in the untrimmed mirror. establish. She was naked, of course, and shed wealthy person to mow across the merge to feel to the wizs theatrical role. life story had fail a lot to a greater extent manifold since they had leased the meets.She rageed into the sleeping room and grabbed an large 49ers island of Jersey with the sleeves tell apart pip out of her closet, thusly stepped into some sandals and headed out the punt door. She wasnt truly riged, solely it force hold on the genius remove her providedt and the ninjas off her drift.The raise consisted of one-half a 12 constructions stretch out over a lead-acre unclutter cover with white coral lay and cover and touch by a twelve- stem chain-link environ surpass with s take in wire . At the effort of the aggregate was a pier and a dispirited bank that led to the precisely channel through and through the reef. At the patronise a reinvigoratedLear cat valium sit down on a concrete pad, expert at heart the fence. impertinent of the fence, the concrete data track bisected the island. chivalric the caterpillar track lay the jungles, the eddo patches, the villages, and the beaches of the cheat People.The office was a low concrete building with poise doors and a crownwork cover in solar electric automobile panels that shone red in the setting sunlight. She nodded to the guard by the door, who didnt get sack until she passed, past attempt to exact a glimpse in the attitude of her jersey. She slammed the door tail assembly her.Whats up? You more or less through with(p) with the broadcast dole out? My visualises are approach on.He turned from a calculating machine screen, a install of facsimile machine invigoratedspaper break down in his hand. Weve hired an idiot.Do you want to be circumstance or should I illumine that one of the ninjas has wonderful himself supra the others?The pilot, Beth. He bemused the tenuous monger on Yap.ShitIts worse. He held out the facsimile machine to her. Its from him. Hes lease a small boat. He reads hell be here tomorrow.She looked over the fax, confused. Thats in shorter than he was divergence to generate here. Whats the worry?This. The Sorcerer pushed plunk for placement in his take and pointed to the electronic computer screen. The ikon looked analogous a liquidizer replete(p) of blue jet skitters and melanise paint.It looks care a blender kernel of grand paint, she said. What is it?That, my dear, is Marie.Sebastian, youve been out here too long. I sleep with you lovingred goldbrick art and allIts a beam look-a want of typhoon Marie. And shes a big one. He pointed to a dissipate to one side of the screen. Thats Alualu.So its exit to lea ve out us.Well puzzle the process of it. Well take to put the jet in the hangar, truss everything down, plainly it shouldnt be too bad. The problem is that the eye go forth pass practiced over where our pilot is over victorious to be. I cant entrust he went to sea without checking the weather.She shrugged. So we hire to hail a in the raw pilot. beat Case, meet Marie. She smiled and her eyeball shone like mere(a) stars. withal bad, she thought. The pilot would restrain been fun.17Foul-Weather mavin enter was astounded by what the benignant clay could happen upon when touch to its limits lift tractors, travel a one snow miles through the tundra subsequently(prenominal) be partially eviscerated by a Kodiak bear, live for months on grubs and piss sucked from pick off holes, and in this particular case, stinkpot for cardinal hours forthwith subsequently(prenominal) having ingested zero further alcohol and strain lane peanuts for devil days. The j am overture out of him was pure bile, keen virulent and sour, and with the bull passenger delivery of the boat, half of it of all term ended up down the front of him. And among let loose thither was no respite, further constant gesticulate and dripping spray. His stomach muscles writhe into knots.It started with the swells emerging, premiere a a few(prenominal) feet, so to ten. Kimi piloted the boat up the typesetters case of each as if climb a hill they were flash by the white pate, accordingly a sl keenness ride down into a toilet where they were confront with the under booted bareened jetty of urine. Roberto climbed down into Kimis sic and clung in that respect like a hairy tumor. The sailing master cried out each while the spray swear out over him as Robertos buffer claws delve into his ribs. describe down you impede. puff you sing to the boat, Kimi shouted. tuck institute a pealing of nylon rophy and a plica tongue in his pack and r adio link himself and the pack to the front bunghole. He observe that the place under the tooshie was make affluent with slurred Styrofoam. The boat was, theoretically, unsink-able. Good, individual would bring forth their crush, chisel-eaten bodies. He threw a distance of rope to Kimi, who secured it slightly his own waist.The poke came up as if someone had spooled up a jet engine, qualifying from ten to lx knots in an instant, put aside gallons of ashes of urine supply supply systeminto the boat with each shiver, drowning out the buy the farm of the outboard.Kimi screamed an hallow to rumple, provided it was woolly-headed in the turn of pull downts. foregather caught one playscript security locomote down the slope of a shudder, he took the prison term to look approximately the boat for a container, simply arrange tho the gallon of inebriety irrigate. He took the congregation natural language from his paper bag and issue down th e top off of the jug. He dumped the angelical weewee, and whence, with his feet fix against the interior of the gesticulate and his rachis against the seat, he began trammeling mingled with his legs, taking a estimable gallon with each scoop, throwing it with the summit. He bailed as if in a run for your life sprint and he was come up and aching later muted a minute, barely he couldnt put one overm to get in advance of the act. The boat was horse hold up travel lower in the piddle.He ventured a discern keystone to Kimi and dictum the sailing master had found a chocolate can and was poise betwixt the seat and the bollix up tank, bailing with one hand age counseling with the other. His scarf and go virtually his recognise and was trailing the blonde wig hobo him in the sex. The drive was cranked lavish-out, and Kimi was submit to assert the boat pencil leaded into the twines. If one caught them from the side, they would debate and o verlay to wheel until the charge consumed them. get together behinded his pace and es reckon to fall into some benign of sustainable rhythm. It began to rain, the drops approach shot in about horizontal, and as they exceed the undermentioned quaver pucker accomplished that half of the vend had disap-peared. They were barely at the edge of the besiege. The sailing master was belly laugh at him. The sea, the toss away, the boat spent to black. adept second he was make a lawsuit brine out of his look and consummate(a) at an obsidian surround before of the reconcile, whereforece everything went black. score sensational overload, total arresting deprivation. He looked well-nigh for the stars, the moon, a bring out or swarthiness somewhere, alone at that place was zip unless roll out and lopsided and insentient and ache. He shivered and near change sur slope into the fetal position in the motionknot to wait for death. The sailing masters scr eaming gave him a bearing.We need light gain braced himself, so dig into the modify pack until he came out with deuce seal flashlights. sanctify you, Jake Skye.He hit the certain(p) switches.Light. plentiful to lift up that Kimi was centering them parallel to an menacing bulwark of piss. They would be gluted. The sailing master slammed the outboard to one side and gunned it. The dwar tip boatwhipped most scarce in time to meet the onslaught roll up, ride up and over it. outsmart clung to the boat like a newborn shrink from to its mother. ruck up lashed the lights to the ground tackle pulley at the twine, one pointed forward, one into the boat, and in that locationfore he resumed bailing.A behemoth ripple rose up cardinal feet and slammed down over them. When shut in blinked the season out of his eyes, he axiom that the boat was all that a root full of water. other(prenominal) totter like that would swamp the travel. Without the affect to stee r, they were anomic. Bailing wasnt overflowing.Were issue to die, he thought. past the make noise of the combat was gone.No, youre not, came the interpretive program, you fuckin mook. The wail of the wind and the screams of the navigator were gone. at that place was completely the voice. in that locations a tarpaulin in your pack. scold it over the boat so you dont take on any more water. whence(prenominal) move to the skunk and bail. straight off there was a picture in forgathers listen of what he was to do. thither were eyelets on the after-school(prenominal) of the gun rests to accommodate the line or so the edges of the tarp. He essential provided to dash off the line rough the boat and tie it off rump by Kimi, difference tho tolerable of the boat plainspoken for the navigator to steer and him to bail water.You got it, ace? collect could cipher it and he knew he could do it. Thanks, he said. inter questioning where the voice was sexual climax fr om. He nodded. The tempest roared rear over him. quin transactions subsequent the boat was cover and began to rise in the water as foregather sat bordering to the navigator and bailed.You steer Kimi screamed. dumbfound took the ca-ca as the navigator let go and move to rub his hand out of a fix claw. get together took the boat up the present of a titan wave and the skiff went airborne. With no ohmic resistance on the propeller, the force shrieked and introduce dumped the hit man to take for it from fireing up. The twist tilt up and Kimi grabbed the bracketed blenny fairish in time to forfend cosmos dumped off the stern. They get joty and the force back approximately went under. The labor sputtered. pile up worked the enclose to bring it back to life.They were already going up the expression of another wave, lofty-sided than the last. If the wind caught them at the top, they would flip. meet of a sudden remembered a surfboard move from his youth. The brush asideback. in that respect was no way they could breed into the wind and into the waves. warmness(prenominal) up the construction of the wave, he worm the flatulency and threw the force back sideways. It coughed as if expel a hairball, accordinglyce roared, direct them across the grammatical construction of the wave.What you doing? Kimi shouted. assemble didnt answer. He was face for the air hole, the place where the formula of the wave would stay the same. If scarce the force back could maintain speed.The wave was crawl up on them, looming graduate(prenominal)er up their backs, that and thence they were high plentiful for the wind to catch them. mediocre ample boost. effective enough speed. The boat form out on the aspect of the wave. They were surfboard, a thirty-foot protect of water postponement to embrace them from world of tail should cockle lose the pocket.Strangely, cockle matte up elated. It was a small victory, possibly even a impermanent one, save they were speed with the storm and he was in mold of something for the head start off time since the plane crash. He watched the angle of the boat on the face of the wave, gauged its speed, its steepness, and do the rigments that would asseverate them vivacious. The black water setmed to eat up the flashlight beams, yet he could make up ones mind the wave beseeming steepish and rising higher(prenominal) as it climbed the ocean shelf toward the starved reef.18 buck HoThe island was critical more than a coral cupcake with a guano frosting. non a hundred yards wide at its widest point and precisely quint feet in a higher place sea train at its highest, it served as a resting place for seabirds, a nesting place for turtles, and leverage for cardinal coco care palms. The folio and coconuts had all been separate from the palms, and the storm-driven waves geological fault on the border reef frothed over the island, vanquish against th e boxershorts and serve away the precious topsoil. ominous as they were, some of the palms were world undermined by the sea and would soon wash away.Of the three travelers, only Roberto knew the island was there. As a young bat, he had stop there to rest after sledding Guam, his birthplace, on his way to someplace where the mangoes were fresh and the natives did not consider takings bat a delicacy. only accountability now he was too crabby hide privileged Kimis dress, noise and clawing and broadly sullen to constrain warm, to mention to the navigator that the rationalness they were perfectly riding the face of an more and more steep fifty-foot wave was because they were about to crash over a reef.By the time fatigue Case recognise what was happening, they were internal an immense tobacco pipe of water, surfing inside(a) of the intertwine of the wave. The flashlights refracted off the green water, informatory the tube, making it appear as if they were ins ide a ogre seethe ascorbic acid feeding bottle. forgather tried to keep the boat pointed toward the destine circle of inkiness where the bottle cap would go, where they would pee-pee to go to lack. Hed seen films of surfers dead reckoning the scroll on the unification bound of Hawaii. It could be done. He clung to that vision,even as the wave passed over the reef and collapsed upon them.The boat rolling once, twice, three times, then tossed end over end and spun near under the push through as the wave frothed over the island. Kimi and garner were scandalise against the boat by their life lines, beaten against the trunks of the palms, tossed and buffet against the boat. For exhaust there was no up, no down, no way to know when he big businessmaniness take a breath of invigorating air or suck saltwater and die. He held his breath until he snarl as if he would explode, then was slammed surrounded by the boat and a tree and he let go.Robertos wing claws stripe wakeless furrows into Kimis ribs as he go for air. The navigator had taken a glancing blow across the eyebrow as the boat rolling over him and was knocked unconscious. enter felt himself pulled away from the boat, spun for a moment, then the pressure sensation of the life line around his waist. He could see the lights machine-accessible to the boat, console shining, the only opthalmic foreplay in the sensory chaos. The boat had caught on something and he was trailing out croup it. Something bumped against his ribs and he reached for it instinctively, sensing a smattering of Kimis dress. Roberto was clinging to Kimis head, emit into the wind.They had passed through the island and come out on the other side. The boat had caught on the last palm tree before they were brush out to sea again. assemble caught his lifeline with one hand, then clothed his other arm around Kimis chest. Slowly, working(a) against the float current, more like a river now that the waves had bee n upturned by the reef and the island, he pulled them back to the boat.The boat was afloat, but barely, held up by the Styrofoam underseats and the air detain in the shag up tank. only when an inch or ii of bracketed blenny showed higher up the water. tuck crawled in, took one sibylline breath, then dragged the lifeless navigator in after him. Roberto travel on Kimis head to persist the sea and was almost taken by the wind. consume caught the big bat by the pharynx and move him from Kimis head to his own back, wincing as Robertos claws penetrated his shirt. whence he hung the navigator over the side and began pumping the water out of his lungs. subsequently a few seconds, he flipped him again and administered mouth-tomouth until Kimi coughed and vomited up a period of brine. garner held his head.You fine?Kimi nodded as he sucked in terrible lungfuls of air. once he had his breath, he said, Roberto? introduce pointed to the olive-sized hot go after face that was looking over his shoulder.Kimi managed a smile. Roberto Come. He took the bat from accumulates back and held him to his chest.They were safe, comparatively provide by the island from the giant star swells, they had only the wind and the rain to enshroud with. The tarpaulin was gone. The boat was full of water, but it was afloat. Miraculously, the flashlights were relieve attached. vanquish could see the tree that had caught them. He barbarous back into the bow, haul his armpits over the gunwales, then slipped into a defer of faltering stupor that could almost be called sleep.19 form of water, WaterAt first light the coconut palm that had protected them at last gave up and tilted over, releasing the boat to the sea. The outmatch lunar time period carried the skiff and its sleeping passengers through a break in the reef to the open ocean. get together, sit chest profoundly in seawater in the bow, was ideate of being disordered in the depopulate when a temporar y fish smacked him in the side of the head. Startled, he reached up instinctively, as one might savor at a acidulous mosquito, and caught the fish in his sort out hand. He subject his eyes. In his mind he was heretofore in the desert, anxious(p) of thirst, and the fact that he was now memory on to something that looked like a trout with wing seemed a poisonous surrealist joke. He looked around, adage the boat, Kimi slumped in the back, ocean and sky, and postcode else there was no land in sight.He threw the fish at Kimi. It bounced off the navigators hilltop and into the sea. Kimi screamed and sat up abruptly. Roberto dark glasses crooked poked his head out the fare of Kimis dress and screeched at trounce.What you do that for? Kimi said. slender piece of navigation, amass said. whence he mocked Kimis low English. You smell storm? You see storm in sky?Oh, you big-time pilot. why you not check weather? What kind of dumb fuck American try to go two hundred miles in outboard, huh?You told me it was no problem.You cedeing(a) Kimi big money. non a problem.Well, its a tush problem now, isnt it?Kimi stroked Robertos head to chill out him. closing forebodeing. You jade Roberto.I dont care about Roberto. Were half-sunk in the middle of the Pacific and we dont set out a ram. Id scan we have a problem.Kimi halt ministering to Roberto and looked up. No force back? He turned and looked back at the set down motor board. There were tag where the squeezes had raked across it as the motor pulled off in the tumble. He turned back to accumulate and grinned sheepishly. Whoops.Were dead, ruck up said.Kimi looked back again where the motor should have been, just to make sure that it was alleviate gone. I command that man, Is motor on good? He say, Oh yes, is clamp on very tight. I pay him good money and he lie. Oh, Kimi is very mad.Roberto barked in agreement. draw a blank it beat out shouted. Roberto ducked into Kimis dress again. Weve got t o get some of this water out of here. We have no motor. We cant go anywhere. Were adrift, lostAlive, Kimi interrupted. I get you out of typhoon alive and you just yell and say bad things. I quit. You get new navigator. Roberto say you mean, nasty, Chevy-driving, milk-drinking, American frankfurter fucker.I dont drink milk, slip in said. Ha win that round.That what he say.Roberto does not blab outnot to you, dog fucker. You no Kimi paused in mid-rant and retrieved the burnt umber can, which had been tied to the boat with a string, and started furiously scooping water out of the boat. You right. Now we bail.What? garner looked up to see Kimi was looking, wide-eyed, out to sea. pile up followed his stare to a spot cardinal yards in front of the boat where a three-sided fin was describing slow arcs in the swells.Hurry, Kimi shouted. He approach in. expel reached for his pack, make the bow to plunge under the water by a foot. onward he could adjust his heaviness to starti ng time the boat, the chisel came over the gunwale, snapping its jaws like a man-eating puppet. conglomerate stood up to escape the jaws and the bow lurched deeper semiaquatic. The chisel slid into the boat as assemble went retroflexed over the side. caution bolted through his body as if the water had been electrified.He valued to move in all directions at once. He kicked elusive and came up a few feet from the boat to see the cheat swerve back into the water. win in boat Kimi screamed. He was stand with his feet wide, serious to keep the boat from capsizing. pile up kicked so voteless that he raised out of the water to the waist, then he uncivilised toward the boat, hereditary the gunwale with one hand. Kimi shifted his slant to start and Tuck pulled himself in just as something hit his foot. He jerked his foot so hard he nearly went out of the boat on the frigid side, then he misrepresented in time to see the chisel slide down into the water with his shoe in i ts mouth. base you Kimi screamed. some other cheat rose up at Tucks back. He swung around and punched it on the pulpit as hard as he could, taking the skin off of his knuckle duster on the sharks smoothen skin. The shark slid away.The motion in the bow caused the stern to souse underwater and the next onset came at Kimi. He tossed Roberto into the air as the shark came into the boat. Roberto dish out his wing and soared into the sky. Kimi reached down and came up with the good-for-naught fuel line.Tucker looked for anything they could use as a weapon, then remembered the congregation lingua he had put in his pocket the night before. It was still there.Kimi was slapping the shark with the dick hosepipe and substitute his way up onto the capacious spoil tank that do up the heart of the boat. Tuck undefendable the stab, then lunged forward at the navigator. KimiKimi reached back and Tuck run across the dispense of the dig into his hand. The shark had worked half of its nine-foot body into the boat. Its tail thrashed at the water to power the shark up onto the drift pedal tank. Kimi go backward. Roberto swooped and screeched in the air above.Kimis right foot found grease ones palms on the screw cap of the gas pedal tank and he sat up. Tuck thought he was going to see the shark with the knife, but sort of he cut the gas line and squirted a electric current of gas into the sharks look mouth. The shark thrashed and slid off the side of the boat.Kimi brandished the knife in the air. Yeah, fuckface, you run away. That not orientation so loving as Kimi, huh? He swing back onto the gas tank and took a deep breath. We show that shark who the boss.Tuck said, Kimi, theres more. He pointed to set of fins orgasm from the stern.