Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy - Plot & Excerpts
The third this week since the first two. Not two hundred metres away from us this time.“Bitches,” I hear Davy spit, getting to his own feet and looking back down the road.My ears are ringing and my body’s shaking as I get to my feet. The bombs’ve come at different times of day and night, at different spots in the city. Once it was an aqueduct that fed water to the western part of town, once it was the two main bridges to the farmlands north of the river. Today, it’s–“That’s that caff,” Davy says, trying to stop Deadfall/Acorn from bolting. “Where the soldiers eat.”He gets Deadfall to heel and climbs back up on the saddle. “Come on!” he barks. “We’ll go see if they need help.”I put my hands on Angharrad who’s still frightened, still saying boy colt boy colt over and over again. I say her name a buncha times and finally get back up on her.“Don’t you go getting no funny ideas,” Davy says. He takes out his pistol and points it at me. “You ain’t sposed to leave my sight.”Cuz that’s also how life’s gone since the bombs started.Davy with a gun on me, every waking minute of every waking day.So I can’t never go looking for her.“The women certainly aren’t helping their own cause any,”
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