Chaos Walking: the Complete Trilogy
“Davy says, throwing me the canister of lime.We never see the Spackle use the corner where they’ve dug a bog to do their business but every morning it’s a little bit bigger and stinks a little bit more and it needs lime powdered over it to cut down on the smell and the danger of infeckshun.I hope it works better on infeckshun than it does on smell.“Why ain’t it never yer turn?” I say.“Cuz Pa may think yer the better man, pigpiss,” Davy says, “but he still put me in charge.”And he grins at me.I s...tart walking to the bog.The days passed and they kept passing, till there was two full weeks of ’em gone and more.I stayed alive and got thru.(did she?)(did she?)Davy and I ride to the monastery every morning and he “oversees” the Spackle tearing down fences and pulling up brambles and I spend the day shovelling out not enough fodder and trying and failing to fix the last two water pumps and taking every turn to do the bog.The Spackle’ve stayed silent, still not doing nothing that could save themselves, fifteen hundred of ’em when we finally got ’em counted, crammed into an area where I wouldn’t herd two hundred sheep.MoreLess
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