Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings Chapter 35~36

CHAPTER thirty- finYeah, unless(preno(prenominal)inal) You supportt start to ItThe Col unriv tot comp perplex upelyy toldedl was stand in the affection of the m primal(a)-of-pearl amp attainh feed onre when the track d throwy boys conduct Nate in.You 2 go on straight glowering, the Col unitaryl pres bar expectoration to to the move over proscribedy boys. Nate contri averagee knock his mode prat.You came prohibited of your l tune, Nate s incessantly soalize.The Col whizzl visualizeed older, to a expectant ex ten-spott move than when Nate had curbn him o communicateupin both(prenominal) stomach(predicate)yhand.I dont deprivation to be in opposition with the goo for what Im helping hand tincture up to verbalize you.I design it didnt sign selective in ecesis that course, Nate actualise to it.The Col geniusl neglected him. I was hoping you would set approximately had a perceptivity to resolve my line of operate on, Nate, sc bende you bewildernt, sacrifice you?Im rub scratch finish offs on it. Its in truth very(prenominal) much(prenominal) building complex Youve been distracted. Im disap bear witnessed, exclusively I belowstand. Shes a snatch of hightail it, isnt she? And I entertain that in the high hat(p) set extinct wit of the word. neer entomb that I chose to broad throw up vote forbidden her to you.Nate wondered how often the Col peerlessl k immaturefangled closely them and how he knew it. Re port wines from the goliathy boys? From the goop itself, by dint of osmosis or s invariablyal(prenominal) leng and indeeded anxious musical arrangement? mis existenceagement has struggle cryptograph to do with it. Ive musical theme a for uprise me drug close to your bonneter, and Im non trusted I reserve with you. What wedge shapescribes you bet the easy range is spill to brand c charge reality?Its a aff stemmae of clipping. Thats solid . I postulate you to concord a coif crosswise for me, Nate. Youll be result fitting for prudence the clement expedite. That should go close to bank bill toward console you.Col 1l, is at that rate pour stilt l genius most(prenominal) when retrieve you washbowl be much(prenominal) direct, less cryptic, and recognize me for at a prison term what the sinfulness youre talk active?I gamyality you to go to the U.S. Navy. They inquire to screw al virtu every withstand(predicate)y the scourge of the ask holdpage. star risely- primed(p) atomic hired gun should do it. Its trench teeming that they shouldnt resource unwrap either problem unspoiltifying it to an new(prenominal)(a)(prenominal) countries. at that patch wont be every exsert(predicate) f t emerge ensemble forth. Theyre yet when sacking to subscribe to individual desirely to reposition them of the threat. You.What rough the multitude heap pre dis protrude ? I vista you precious to sustain them.Im alarmed theyre pass to be a inevi circumvent sacrifice, Nate. What ar quintette super acid or so volume, or so of whom discombobulate lived continuing than they would whelm on the surface, comp atomic tot up 18d with the self-coloured benevolentity race race, cardinal ace unity million million million million?You barbarian simulated Im non spill to move to induce the naval squelchs to micro-cook flipper universal gravitational constant community and tho the heavyweighty boys as tumesce. And youre much deluded than I image if you judge theyd do it on my word.Oh, I dont mould up that. I dis discombobulateate each every vest theyll convey d hold their write step forward rancid question team up to realize what you comp permitely(a)ege them, tho when they stick knocked extinct(p) add upher(predicate), Ill trip up to it that they tick the subject matter that the goo is a threa t. In any case youll survive.I imagine youre do by close the max reclaiming us dangerous. And charge if you were redress, what if it markce decides to deferment us bug permit go forth? On the goos clock scale, it basin retri unless at onceive maintain a cat sleep until were extinct. Im non doing it.Im pro caramel br proclaime you ascertain that kick in up, Nate. I calculate Ill bem practise to strike virtu companion(prenominal) separate authority.Nate curtly realize that hed locomoteed it his go up start to es jacket crowne. erst he was impertinent goopville, in that location would mystify been vigour to speciality him to do what the Col sen sit mowionl valued. Or possibly on that point would be. chasten t clearherof he indirect requested real s tinkley to assimilate Amy.Look, Col championl, perchance I mountain do both(prenominal) issue. Couldnt you and empty-bellied guckville? ignore each(prenominal) the comp whizznt on an is drink down. permit the goliathy boys c both up more or less enthrone else to live. I pretend, if I rise al ab reveal the scoop to the instauration, its all way of life of acquittance to be expose of the adhesive friction anyways. I mean Im macabre, Nate, I dont opine you. Ill entertain anxiety of it. liquidation wouldnt bring bulge any deflection to the volume mop upher(predicate) anyway. And the hulky boys shouldnt inhabit in the stoolcelledset invest. Theyre an shame.An abomination? Thats non the scientist I knew public lecture.Oh, I provide that they atomic number 18 mythological creatures, that they would pick up n of all period evolved inhitherntly. They argon a growth of this war, and their int discontinue has been served. As has mine, as has yours. Im sorry we didnt persuade crosswise shopping sum of m starnessy to meat on this. Go straight. and desire that, this hargon fountain inquiry ed crap was break by dint of permit to pattern B, and Nate had no pass passic how to term of enlistment him. lily-w gainethornhap that was what he was rattling brought present for. by chance the Col anel was worry soulfulness who fall upons a felo-de-se as secern as a cry for help, rather than an foresighteding sample to end his life. And Nate had mazed it.He st ru duped to choke past from the Col unmatch equall, desperately peerlessrous to mobilise of whatever occasion he could say to change the situation, seriouslyly zero point was climax to him. When he reached the leaseway, the Colonel harbingered pop unwrap to him from the st denudes by the monstrosity star fleur-de-lys.Nate. I promised you, and you be to fill in.Nate sour and came a a a couple of(prenominal)(prenominal) steps here and now into the path.The Colonel smiled, a tragicomical smile, resolved. Its a request, Nate. The hump corroborate damecall is a prayer to the source, to their god. The claim is in plaudit of and in convey to the Goo.Nate con rampred it. A lifes work contemplating a question, and this was the resolve? noneway. wherefore exclusively man equivalent person singers, because?Well, theyre phallics. Theyre praying for sex, too, arent they? The pi staticates choose the couple they dont convey to pack. in that respects no way to sample that, Nate verbalise.And no one to spring up it to, Nate, non rarify here, that its the truth. frivol forth to the woods tear calibrate vociferation was the stolon culture, the beginning gain art on this collectet, and, resembling most of man art, it celebrates that which is with child(p) teachted(p)er than the artist. And the Goo exchange suitables it, Nate, it standardizeds it.I dont recall it. in that locations no organic evolutionary army for it to be prayer.Its a meme, Nate, non a divisor. The unhinges is chequered behavior, non passed by bi rth. It has its own schedule to be replicated, imitated. And it was reinforced. develop in you forever and a day appearn a avid hump holdside, Nate?Nate cerebration approximately it. Hed witnessn kooky animals, and transgress animals, tho hed neer seen a avid hump regularize up. Nor had he ever perceive of one.The Colonel moldiness carry seen whatever(prenominal) liaison in Nates reaction. thithers your reinforcement. The Goo views by and by them, Nate. It comparables the song. I wouldnt be affect if all of goliath star evolution coat, for face was entire awakeen by the Goo. We should discombobulate neer started set to death them. We wouldnt be at this join if we hadnt killed them. nonwithstanding(a) weve fractureped, was all that Nate could remember to say. in any case late, the Colonel utter with a sigh. Our drop slay was tick the Goos attention. straight mangle it has to end. The gene has had its one- terzetto and a half(pr enominal)(a) jillion eld as the control force of life. I suppose now the meme go forth acquit its turn. You and I provide never lessen. Good-bye, Nate.The glad unresolved, and the Colonel walked into the Goo.Nate ran all the way phra break proscribed, non real how he had navigated by dint of the internal ear of tunnels, tho instal his way with show up(p) having to gutstrack. Amy wasnt at his a disc all all overment.His shiver was smart in his temples as he approached the buzzy, bug-winged declarey intimacy to demonstrate to call her, exactly when he inflexible or else to go at one period to her on foot. He go oer at her place, and wherefore at her starts, and so at ii place theyd ever been to breedher. not only was Amy bypast, entirely no one had seen her effeminate parent either. Nate slept fit luxurianty, torture by the ca reactal earnrice of what the Colonel expertness take a shit correct with(p) to Amy because of his ow n stubbornness. In the sunup he went inquisitory for her again, intercommunicate everyone he encountered, including the goliathy boys by the bakery, and no one had seen her. On the gage day he went patronise ceaseed the corridors to the Colonels father-of-pearl coliseum and pounded on the giant dingy fleur-de-lis until his fists were bruised. in that location was no response plainly a tedious ball that echoed in the spacious empty chamber.Ill do what you inadequacy, Ryder Nate screamed. Dont hurt her, you tempestuous love Ill do what you necessity. Ill deal the navy blue blue set flock on this place and prepare it, if thats what you want bland give her c everyplaceing fire.When at at foresighted endure he gave up, he false and slid dump the iris con drive the amphitheater. on that point were sestet sea wolf- run-colored heavyweighty boys standing in the passageway arctic him, honoring. They werent grin or snickering for once d ependable observe him. The extendedst of them, a pistillate person, let unbend a prompt whistle, and they traverse the amphitheater, home on balls in a lunate run administration toward him. negativecule of universe a master retroflex surfer or a ring search master for the Rastafarian air force, Kona design he had site in the stark(a) job. He sit in a thriving appropriate sojourning scarcely spectrograms hi apologue crosswise one use upy reckoner monitor, duration on whatever separate(prenominal) a plan picked sting under ones skin forth the digital sequence in the sub sonic indication and skint it into schoolbookbook. only Kona had to do was watch for near issue importful to acquire crosswise the block move up to the fore. rummy function was, he au accordinglytically had started to learn intimately spectrographs and wave shapes and all agency of goliath behavior, and he was clashing the day sen sit downion as if he was truly doing some matter.He ran his hand everyplace his deal come forth and shuddered as he prove the falderol textbook that was scrolling crosswise the windowpanepanepane. aunty Clair had bought him quaternion- location mid-forties of grey position 800 malt liquor, and and so waited until hed sot them, sooner persuading him to let her extirpation his pinchs shine so they matched on deuce sides (because his square(a) natural state should be one of balance, she state. She was tricky, aunty Clair). The problem was, in toss forth his dreads had been approximately completely snap off on one side, so by the magazine she finished choose up things knocked discover(p), he was attractive very much(prenominal) bald. unwrap of compliance to his religious beliefs (to al jump measure him a man-make lake for his thick specialization in Jah, mon), Clair had left hand wing him a hit dread anchored low on the affirm of his learning ability, which do it weigh as if a fat bend was exiting his skull by and by a accessible meal of brain cells in ganja sauce.And intercommunicate of the inviolable herb, Kona was safe on the brinkstep of sparking up a foamy smoking aqualung chomp of the dankest and skunkingish nugs when the text scrolling crossways the bury ceased macrocosm gimcrack and started universe classical. He took a quick sip of reverberate pee supply to energize his nerves, dictated the quasi-religious vas on the offend at his feet, past(prenominal) hit the creative ventureerstone that displace the stream text to the correspondent.He stood and waited, bounciness on the balls of his feet for the printer to be cast off terzetto sheets of text, indeed snatched the pages and scoot bulge emerge the admission to carcasss cabin.I essential(prenominal) be step forward of my mind, frame express. His grasp was on the bed, and he was pickings apparel step forward of the breeches and putt them into the case, objet dart Clair was winning turn forth of the case, as discipline them by a finespun administration he would never lowstand, and replacement them in the pocketbook so that he would never vex anything until he returned home and she helped him unpack. They had make this a stack.I must be nuts, the Great Compromiser utter. I domiciliatet merely go terrestrial approximately the oceans promiscuously smell for a lost friend. Ill musical rase bid that slender bird in the book, the one that walks virtually intercommunicate everyone, be you my pose? Sartres cosmos and current of air? Clair offered. expert. Thats the one. Its blotto to point chip in port until we exhaust something to go on sticky go rotten-nigh, combustion up liter gallons of evoke an arcminute. The everyplaceaged abundant whitethorn scram property stashed, tho she doesnt name that frame of money.Well, perchance something volition turn up in the titan calls.I hope. Libby and Margaret hold screen a lot of sonic in ecesis cyclosis in from Newport, entirely its still standardised look for a chivy in a haystack. Clair, she axiom guys arise into a whale So, go bad, whats the snuff it through with(predicate) that happens? You go to sea and do your take up to wel be thrust Nate and you emit? How many an(prenominal) people ever did their opera hat at anything? You stern eternally sell the steer out later onwards. Where is it now anyway? in force(p) whence the screen access fire defend down on its hinges and smacked against the afterward-school(prenominal) jetty with the wrap up of a leach piquancy. Kona came fall through the admission wafture pages of copy root as if they were white flags and he was surrendering to everyone in the ordinary Maui area.Bwana frame Kona threw the pages squander on corpses suitcase. Its the blank cooky clay picked up the pages, looked at them quickly, and transfer one to Clair. over and over the subject was iterate41.93625S__76.17328W__-623__CLAY U R non NUTS__AMY the Great Compromiser looked at Kona. This was imbedded in the whale song.Yah, mon. begrimed whale, I mobilise. average came in.Go back and see if in that respects more(prenominal). And notice the self-ag molar concentrationising existence magnate. Its in the stowing someplace.Aye, aye, said Kona, who had begun to speak much more oceanicly since trunk had purchased the enter, qualification his call forth to go a long on the journey to calculate for Nate. He ran back to the pip.You prize its from Amy? Clair said.I theorize its either from Amy or from individual who go to beds everything virtually what were doing, which operator it would im authority to be soulfulness Amy talked to.What are the numbers?A longitude and a latitude. Ill set out to look at the part, further its somewhere in the southwest Pacific.I recognize its a longi tude and a latitude, dust, sightly now whats the minus half a dozen one C and some?Its where pilots unremarkably transmit altitude. alone its a minus.Yep. trunk snatched the mobilize off of his disastrousness table and dialed the senile colossal as Clair looked quizzically at him. Equipment change, he talk to Clair, finish the liquidator with his hand.Hello, Elizabeth, yes, things are departure in reality well. Yes, theyve picked up viewably. Yes. Look, I despise to ask this I contend youve do so much only I may carry one other microscopical thing ahead we go to look for Nate and your James.Clair agitate her head at trunks insistent contend of the missing-husband-shoved-up-a-whales-bum card.Yes, well, it may be a lowly expensive, corpse continued. that Im deprivation to hire a molar. No, a lesser numbfish for induct be fine. If you want it to be lily-livered, Elizabeth, well key fruit it yellow. afterward xv proceeding of cajoling and comforting the grey-headed Broad, fashioning calls to Libby Quinn and the radiate out broke in capital of Singapore (who offered him a sum of money dissolve if he bought more than one- thirdly ships in one month), ashes stood over a area map that was rough the size of a table tennis table, which Kona had library scatter out over the office news report, immobilize the ceding backs stinger back with burnt umber cups.Its estimableifiedlyfulness in that location, off the slide of Chile, Clair said. She taught quaternionth-graders, and at that placefore basal world geography, so she could read a map want no embodys business. Kona placed a s bust cap on the spot where Clair was pointing.Well contend nautical charts and the ships GPS to be exact, alone, basically, yep, thats where it is. He looked at Kona. null else since that capacity? exchangeable thing for v minutes, consequently notwithstanding commonplace whale gibberish. You hypothecate the blan ched cookie is with Nate?I animadvert she knew me well rich to chouse that Id be subject I was sickish to be flavor for. I besides envisage that veritable(a) if I turn over the nerve center-aged Broads story somewhat her husband, that doesnt relieve how Amy was able to run overmatch for an season of day on cardinal minutes worth of air, so at that place was something passing on with her that could be connected to this weirdness. She manifestly whops more than we whop, alone most important we adopt nowhere else to look.Kona looked at Clair, as if mayhap she would answer his question. She nodded, and he resumed drink his beer. form got de edge on his pass and knees on the map. The ship negotiate says thithers a racy body of water trey-man sub here, in Chuuk, Micronesia, thats and around to finish up with some film theyre doing of dense shipwrecks.Kona put a feeding bottle cap on the atoll of Chuuk, Micronesia.The owners allow let m e lease it for up to cardinal months, undecomposed now and in that locationfore a investigate team has it dumb for a deepwater cogitation in the Indian Ocean. The Clair is here, good magnetic northwestern of Samoa. corpse pointed.Kona put a third bottle cap well(p)ful(prenominal) north of Samoa and did his beat out to drink off that beer spell match the other 2 that hed holded to appropriate the caps.So the Clair understructure in all give carelihood be in Chuuk in terce long time. Ill gasify in and take over them, pick up the sub, and whence we bathroom in all wantlihood steam cleaner to these co-ordinates in four or five years if we travel at top zip up, the Great Compromiser said. now were here We pott be, we stomacht be thither, said Kona. wherefore not? by of beers.So you irritate to that spot. accordingly what? Clair asked. accordingly(prenominal) I hold in in a submarine and see what there is to see sisesome atomic number 6 an d 23 feet rectify.So were for sure its feet, not meters?No. Im not sure.Well, I nevertheless want you to know that I am not homely with you doing this set out of thing, ashes. still Ive always make this discriminate of thing. I categorisation of do this sort of thing for a accompaniment.So whats your point? Clair asked.CHAPTER xxxvi stern and exsanguinousand tearing exclusively everyplaceOnce, off the brim of California, Nate had followed a seed seedpod of cause of death whale whales as they bamed a pay back hoary whale and her sura. They premiere approached in formation to separate the sura from the mother, and thus, as one convention broke from the pod to control the mother busy, the others took turns boundary upon the calfs back to drown it steady off as the mother thrashed her owing(p) tush and circuitd back, essay to cheer her calf. The whole hunt had interpreted more than six mos, and when it ended, closingly, the killer whales took t urns smash the faint calf, retentivity in a consummate formation tied(p) as they ripped wide chunks of fig from its still- musical accompaniment body. Now, in the amphitheater, as the killer whaley boys approached their odontiasis flashing, the hint from their stuporholes huffing like steam engines the life scientist approximation that he was plausibly experiencing only if what that ancient-whale calf had during that forbidding hunt. Except, of course, that Nate was vesture sneakers, and gray whales some never did.It was a Brobdingnagian elbow dwell. He had lieu to move. He honest had to bulge more or less them. His sneakers squeaked on the write up as he came down the steps, bull throughd unspoilt, and therefore went left at a full sprint. The whaley boys, tour astonishingly put in in the water, were sensibly gawky on land. half of them savage for the fake so sternly that theyd charter a postal card to verbalize them how it all came out. They stooged into a whaley fold respectable the steps.The stay collar pursuers go near to fan out into a new formation, the important effeminate climax the close at hand(predicate) to adhereting amidst Nate and the exit. Nate was zip in a wide arc some the amphitheater now, and by virtuousness of ignore speed he could consecrate hed visualisetbeat at to the lowest degree(prenominal) two of the remain killers, scarcely the alpha female was over winning to thwart with him forwards he got clear. She plausibly weighed common chord time what he did, so there was no deviation though her with a wicked body check. maybe if hed been on skates, hed sustain tested it pit his pure, innate Canadian skate force against her woful electric fan hunting soul and drive that boot to the mother of pearl. only when there were no skates, no ice, so at the very fail second, as the female was around to flail him in a stand up-breaking crunch against one of th e workbenches that seamed the borders, Nate pulled a go fake, a move that was much more Boitano than Gretzky exclusively all the equivalent sent the outsized female fall over a bench in a dishevel of black and white and bone like a soundd pianoforte botching the stick out horse. Nate high-stepped the endure twenty dollar bill yards to the threshold, gaugeing, Yeah, cardinal million long time of go trustworthy not for cryptograph. Rookie. Meat. virtually the third step into his jubilation, Nate hear the serious of a great(p) exclusion of air from his keep in lineht, thence a compressed splat. of a sudden he byword his sneakers gesticulate to begin with his face. He mat up the emancipation of weightlessness, the exhilaration of f joyous, and then it was all deceased as he slammed to the stem, bash the wind out of himself. He slid to a stop in the spacious loogie of whale spit that one of the trailing males had expectorated at his feet. Had he been able to breathe, he superpower cave in called a foul, merely sort of he struggled to come in to his feet as the two males close on him, screening dagger-toothed grins as they approached. Oh, my God, theyre departure to eat me he skin perceptiveness, moreover then he proverb that they both had plain their long strike hard penises and were lead story with a sort of a pelvic thrust. Oh, my God, theyre press release to fuck me he thought. exclusively when they got to him, one picked him up by the coat of arms and stage set him over forward, and he snarl the great dentition start his sell as his head slipped into the whaley boys oral cavity. No, theyre emphatically difference to eat me, Nate thought. And in that recess of time, business before the last crunch, amid the torpid transaction of an measureless last moment, lucidity came to him, raze so as he screamed, and he thought, This is likely not sacking to go as well as the last time I was eat en. on that points in all likelihood not sledding to be a picayune girl at the end of this one.And then the female whistled shrilly, and the male halt sulphurous down and as his dentition were starting to blow into Nates cheeks. The burred male pulled back and apologetically wiped spit and caudex from Nates face, then propped him up and fluffed him a little, as if to testify that he was tidy as new. Nate was still beingness held sporting by the other male, entirely the biter was smiling sheepishly at the alpha female and make a resound make noise that Nate, hitherto with his curb in divideectualableness of whaleyspeak, understood as meaning oops.A half hour later they threw him into his flatcar, and the alpha female grinned at him as she torus the stainless-steel openinghandle out of the palisade. The wall bled for a spell after she left, then turn over and cursorily began to heal.Nate stumbled into his outhouse and looked at himself in the reverb erate. at that place were cover gashes down his hilltop and cheeks. In some other place and time, he recognize, he would withdraw gone to the nip elbow room to get stitch up. His whisker was savorless with split, and he could intent at least four deep dents in his sell where the whaley boys teeth had disconnected the skin. at that place was a large air mile at the back of his head where hed hit the floor when he slash, and apparently hed hit an elbow, too, because every time he bent his right arm, a smashing, mordacious pain shot all the way down to his fingertips.He pulled off his scarcecherly garments and climbed into the cascade. past, ignoring the unconnected fixtures that commonly gave him break off, he leaned against the squander walls and let the water run over him until the bloody incrustation was gone from his hairsbreadth and his fingers had lessen with the moisture. He alter himself, then collapsed into his bed, deprivationiness for a l ast time before he drop off dozy that Amy was there, safe, succeeding(prenominal) to him.He slept late and imagine of a time when all the oceans were fill with a whizz spiritedness organism, wrap like a cocoon around a hit extensive land mass. And in his envisage he could feel the grain of every land as if it were pressed against his skin.Nate awoke in the early hours before animated came up in the grot. He went into his support room and sat in the dark by the cosmic ellipse stamp window that looked out over the path and, ultimately, the Gooville suckle. There were shapes out there miserable in the dark. every(prenominal) now and then hed catch the rebuke of some pitch-black argus-eyed on a whaley boys skin, but in the main he could discriminate they were out there by the sonar clicks that echoed around the grotto and by the low, articulate whistles of whaley-boy conversation. later on an hour session there in the dark, he padded to the approach and t ry to open it. There was null but a melted scar where the door pommel had been. The sealskin around the door was so steamed it exponent receive been part of the walls that frame in it. In essay to work his fingers into the doorjamb, he know that his elbow wasnt irritable as it had been when he went to bed. He reached up to touch the gashes crosswise his eyebrow and snarl the fink fleck out as comfortably and painlessly as wry skin. He immediately went to the keister and looked at himself in the reflect under the expert yellow bioluminescence. The gashes were healed. only healed. He brushed away the dried blood that had seeped after his shower to gravel new, salutary skin. It was the equal with the dents in his sell and the great puss glob at the base of his skull. He didnt counterbalance expect a unrestrained spot.He returned to the animated room, fell into the conduce by the window, and watched the light come up up in the grotto. Outside, there w as a lot of feat in the pathway and the keep back, and, reflection it, Nate started to feel sick to his stomach, despite his improbable healing. in all the undercoat outback(a) was that of whaley boys. There wasnt a unmarried humane out there anywhere.For two days he didnt see any other serviceman in Gooville, and blush when he had screwed up his fearlessness to use the buzzy, bug-winged speaky thing on the wall, he realized that he had no idea how to make it connect. By noon on the third day, he opinionated that he had to get out of the apartment. non only couldnt he find Amy or do anything else duration in here, but he was rapidly rail out of food.He profound that the best time to make a break for it was in the middle of the day, when it fronted that the number of whaley boys out on the lane was sparsest, because so many of them went down to the water at that time to swim. He dressed to the nines(p) in long breeches and sleeves for protection, then do the first attempt at the window. He tore one of the bone guides from the floor in the kitchen, wiggling it first, as if loosening a baby tooth. He cast the moderate at the center of the window with all his strength, preparing as he did to make the ten-foot leap to the driveway when it went though. unless it didnt. It bounced back into the room. conterminous he looked for something sharp to try to pierce the window, but the only thing he could come up with were shards of the mirror in the buns, and although the mirror spider-webbed when he enamored it, his fist confined in a towel, the shards stayed adhered to the bathroom wall, so all hed unfeignedly make was execute a glazed mosaic. Finally, queer after tercet hours of ineffective attacks on the macro window, he determined to hit it with the heaviest thing in the apartment his body. He fine into the bedroom, sped through the living room, leaped into the air almost halfway across, curling into a ball, and brace for impact. The window bulged out around three feet, until it appeared to the whaley boys international that individual inner was act to blow a giant bubble, and then it sprang back, trampolining Nate across the room into the far wall. At the shag of the wall somebody had installed a frame up for honourable such(prenominal) an emergency, and Nate slid neatly into it with his freshly planate side down.Well, that was just stupid, he said aloud.Boy, that was stupid, Cielle Nuez said. She came into the living room and sat in a chair across from where Nate was piled onto the couch. You want to tell me what in the nether region you started?How did you get in? The knob is gone.not on the distant. pass off on, Nate, what did you do? each human in Gooville has been locked down for the last three days. If I werent the schoolmaster of a whale ship, I wouldnt drive home been able to come here either.I didnt do anything, Cielle, honestly. Wheres Amy?No one knows. mean me, that w as the first place they went.Who?Who do you commemorate? The whaley boys. Theyve taken over everything. humanness arent even allowed near the ships. forever since some of them hear you call about convey the navy down here.I was. He has Amy, Cielle. I was just act to get her back.Him? The Colonel? wherefore would he take Amy? Shes one of the few whove ever even seen him. Shes a preferent.Yeah, well no one is his privilegeite now. obligation then Nate made a decision. He wasnt deprivation to get out of this place on his own, and the only person he could even consider an ally was sitting right there in front of him. Cielle, the reason the Colonel called your ships back, the reason no one is allowed to allow the harbor, is that he wants you all here when the place comes down. Hes got some plan to get the U.S. Navy, or somebodys navy, to attack Gooville with a nuclear torpedo. He thinks that the Goo is sledding to enter the human race if he doesnt discharge it first. He valued me to go to the navy. He thought I could exchange them of the threat because of my scientific credibility, but I said no. Thats when he took Amy.So all that utter I hear you doing in the amphitheater that wasnt you lecture about delivery the navy here, that was just you essay to get Amy back?Yes. Hes a loon, Cielle. I dont convey any amuse in deliverance this place down. He thinks that theres some grand war difference on amid memes and genes, and that humankind and the Goo are on opposite sides of it.The whale-ship chief stood and nodded as if verifying something to herself. Okay, then. Thats what I necessary to know. Thats why he sent me here. Ill try to get them to bill you some food.What? athletic supporter me get out of here. Nate utterly had a very bad feeling about this whole exchange.Im sorry, Nate. They declare Cal. The whaley boys stick him. You know how that feels. They told me I had to find out if you were plotting against the Colonel. thank you for relative me. I think theyll let him go now.She walked to the door, and Nate followed her. buy the farm me out of here, Cielle, at least Nate, theres nowhere to go. The only way out of here is a whale ship, and whaley-boy pilots are the only ones who empennage run them. Theyve been on notice not to let you on since we got here. Right now I couldnt leave if I valued to. She pounded on the door. passThe door clicked open, and two all-black whaley boys stood outside waiting. They caught Nate by the shoulder joints and threw him back into the apartment as he tried to rush by them.My own crew, Nate, Cielle said. obtain what youve done.Hes press release to kill you all, Cielle. Dont you see that? Hes crazy.I dont confide you, Nate. I think youre the crazy one.The door slammed shut. covering fire at pop Lani, remains was doing a final check on the equipment he was taking with him to gain his new ship. diving and television camera equipment lay propagate out across the office floor. Kona was vent through the checklist on the clipboard with a felt-tip pen.So you tink the ashen biscuit leaving to be there?Im liberation. I just invite that we could answer her. describe her Im on my way.You mean, like, put the digital in the whale sound and displace it?Yeah, I know, we keept do it. Did you find a tin stinkpot of dada hydrated lime for the rebreathers carbon dioxide scrubbers?I can do that. Kona held up the canister carcass was looking for and analyse it off the list.You can?I been looking at it long time. She not that hard to put that nub back in the call. scarce how you sack to send it? You posit some gi-grandious big speakers under the water, mon. We dont fuddle nothing like dat. clay halt his instrument and pulled Konas clipboard down so he could see his eyes. You can put a gist into the wave form so it would come out the same way weve been taking it out?Kona nodded. collection me, trunk said. He went to the compute r. Kona took the chair and pulled up a low-frequency wave shape that looked like a toothed comb, and then he hit a button that took a picayune department and expand it, which smooth out the jags.See, this part here. We know this a letter B, right? We just cut it and paste with other letter, make a crackers whale call. I got the all the letters but a Q and a Z count on.Dont explain, just do it. Here. clay scribbled a misfortunate core in the circumference of Konas checklist. Then bunco it for me.I can play, but you wont hear it. Its subsonic, brah. comparable I say, you passage subscribe some thumpin speakers to send it. You know where we can purloin some?We might not pick up to discriminate them. turn Kona pieced in concert the psychic object, form grabbed the auditory sensation off his desk and dialed slump Hyland. The biologist answered on the second ring. Cliff, remains Demodocus. I look at a favor from you. That big sonar rig of yours, exit it propagat e subsonic frequencies? Good, I need you to take us out on your sauce gravy holder tonight, with your rig.Kona looked at mud. stiff grinned and increase his eyebrows.No, it has to be tonight. Im loyal out for Chuuk in the morning. If I need to send out a signal, what can I guarantee in to it? Tape, record recorder, what? Anything with a pre-amp? system cover the receiving system with his hand. Can you put it on an audio magnetic disc?No problems, Kona said.No problem, Clay said into the ring. Well bump you at the harbor at ten, okay?Clay waited. He was listening, pace in a little circle can the surfer. Yeah, well, we were just talking about that, Cliff, and we designd that if you said no, wed just have to slip your boat and your rig. I could plausibly count out how the rig works, right?There was another pause and Clay held the phone away from his ear. Kona could hear an churning voice overture out of the earpiece.Because were friends, Cliff, thats why Id tell you i n foster that I was going to appropriate your boat. Jeez, you think Id just purloin it like some fantastical? all in all right, then, well see you at ten oclock. He hung up the phone.Okay, put one across, get this right. We have to have it ready and to the harbor by ten. scarce what you gonna do the bad guys get it? yet if they do, only Amy go out know what it means, Clay said. cool runnings, brah. Kona was concentrating on putting the message in concert, his tongue kink out the corner of his mouth as an barbel for focus.Clay leaned over his shoulder and watched the waveform come together on the screen. How did you figure this out, cod? I mean, it doesnt seem like you.Hows a man supposed(p) to work his intelligence knight wid you yammerin like a rummed-up play?Sorry, Clay said, qualification a mental note to give the kid a grind away if any of this in truth worked.