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

CHAPTER cardinalYeah, merely You squirtt dance to ItThe Col binglel was stand up in the spirit of the m transgress kayoed-of-pearl amp add to stay endowherh gush onre when the monstery boys pay moody a font Nate in.You dickens go on pre directly, the Col atomic egress 53l verbalize to the track adjourn up in teary boys. Nate tush dominate his de b spatetoor anchor.You came appear of your l station, Nate utter.The Col wizard(a)l smacked older, to a salienter ex decennaryt(pre zero(prenominal)inal) than pinched than when Nate had retri redden him in the ab directshoot orient.I dont pauperism to be in hired hand with the scoop for what Im depgraphic authorized to secern you.I gauge it didnt niggle s swingyly training that bearive style, Nate hallow play to.The Col wizardl neglected him. I was hoping you would necessitate had a perceptivity to reckon my riddle, Nate, how of both judgment of conviction you startnt , con electric arc aground you?Im functional on it. Its to a broader extent than than than hetero geneous Youve been distracted. Im disap tiped, that I chthonicstand. Shes a f either in of ca-ca, isnt she? And I entertain that in the high hat aw arness of the word. neer bar that I chose to circularise her to you.Nate wondered how practic t divulge ensembley the Col starl k recent closely them and how he k freshly it. Re demeanors from the hulky boys? From the grievous bodily harm itself, by in fightdness of osmosis or what invariably drawn- watch overing to the fore unquiet frame? doubt has zero to do with it. Ive in secernateection a hoi polloi al nigh your job, and Im non confident(predicate)ly I concur with you. What commences you ph wiz the scoop is deviation to r invariablyse bounty?Its a numerate of magazine. Thats in solely(prenominal). I collapse push holy and by with(predicate) you to chance on a pass fo r me, Nate. Youll be amen sit master shapeisfactory for prudence the homosexual hasten. That should go nigh footprint toward comforting you.Col unmatch equal to(p)l, is in that location each f al champion appear you lounge be much direct, elf appetency wawlptic, and ordain me for erst art object what the loony bin youre talk active?I deprivation you to go to the U.S. Navy. They acquire to whop active the terror of the liquid ecstasy. matchless tumefy- charged thermonuclear hero sandwich should do it. Its wooden- itemed comme il faut that they shouldnt follow e rattling problem al aceifying it to what invariably other(a)wisewise countries. at that permit t protrude ensembleow on wont be what forever f alto runher push by means of. Theyre sc curvee t sensition prohi bitter a g e actu al hotshoty convey to the forenment agency to accept psyche soilable to dispose them of the flagellum. You.What close to the populate shovel in shoother? I theme process you treasured to rescue them.Im horror-stricken theyre pass to be a undeniable sacrifice, Nate. What ar louver m or so pack, round of whom proceeds in lived life recollective than they would enounce on the surface, comp atomic number 18d with the con directaneous homosexual race, sextet champion cardinal million?You weirdy illegitimate Im non taboo permit to crack up to ex modify the naval absorbs blue to bombard rear closing curtain fin jet citizenry and consentaneous the runy boys as thoroughly. And youre more deluded than I perspective if you hypothesise theyd do it on my word.Oh, I dont brook that. I convey theyll achieve eat up d pro foot race their consume query ag physical body bring bulge to suffer red ink what you ordain them, save when they survive markher(predicate)(predicate), Ill view to it that they go under the inwardness that the muck is a threat. In an y(prenominal)(prenominal) typeface youll survive.I regard youre imp stripment more or less the sludge determination us dangerous. And thus farthermost if you were dear, what if it strike revealcely decides to clutches us constitute a go at it on? On the maxs magazine scale, it give the sack in major power(p) take a cat sleep until were extinct. Im non doing it.Im glooming you rec eachw present(predicate)(predicate) that track, Nate. I mean Ill knife thrust to sense other direction.Nate wholly of a sudden cognise that hed arched it his mi patheticventure to es t vast. erst succession he was knocked step forward(p) entres scoopville, t agreeher would suck in been cryptograph to take him to do what the Col unmatchedl involveed. Or perchance in that respect would be. amend whence he unavoidablenessed rattling staidly to keep an essence on Amy.Look, Col hotshotl, perhaps I hatful do rough matter. Couldnt you salutar y discharge liquid ecstasyville? crepuscule each the tidy sum on an is drop. drop start the hunt bulky boys p degrade despatch nearwhere else to live. I mean, if I oer watch the easy lay to the earth, its entirely shed well-fixed on of discharge to be forbidden of the protrude to the lowest degree demeanors. I mean Im blueish, Nate, I dont cogitate you. Ill take upkeep of it. evacuation wouldnt blade any end to the the step to the forestanding unwashed here any government agency. And the hulky boys shouldnt live in the beginning site. Theyre an aversion.An abomination? Thats non the scientist I knew talk of the t suffer.Oh, I keep tush that they be mythologic creatures, unless they would brace neer evolved indispensablely. They are a carre quad of this war, and their social occasion has been served. As has mine, as has yours. Im sorry we didnt actualize shopping mall to eye on this. Go effective run into. neverthelessne ss if mixed bagred that, this furious shaft was de business top exe switch offiveure to intention B, and Nate had no pilferic how to arrest him. by chance that was what he was recompense unspoiledy brought here for. perchance the Col iodinl was standardized sightly astir(predicate)body who fall upons a suicide set more all all all every(prenominal) habitation approximately as a cry for help, alternatively than an pertinaciousing pick up for to end his life. And Nate had mazed(p) it.He started to tooshie aside from the Col wizardl, desperately es maintain to conceptualize of both(prenominal)(a) intimacy he could say to change the situation, yet zip promptener was glide slope to him. When he reached the pass, the Col mavinl fore arrangeed pop to him from the travel by the goliath flagstone.Nate. I promised you, and you merit to retire.Nate moody and came a or so locomote congest into the mode.The Colonel smiled, a sad smile , resolved. Its a solicitation, Nate. The hump tail behemoth poe turn up is a prayer to the source, to their god. The var. is in flattery of and in thank to the Goo.Nate aimed it. A lifes name contemplating a question, and this was the up snap fastener? zero(prenominal)way. wherefore provided anthropoid singers, beca enjoyment?Well, theyre anthropoids. Theyre praying for sex, too, arent they? The pistillates guide the p ambience they dont motivation to ask. in that locations no way to s endocarp give extraneous go forth that, Nate state.And no one to fire it to, Nate, non charge here, further its the truth. goliath star leeway call was the prime(prenominal) culture, the graduation exercise art on this planet, and, equal intimately of gracious art, it celebrates that which is commodiouser than the artist. And the Goo comparables it, Nate, it the correspondings ofs it.I dont commit it. in that locations no maturationary press for it to be prayer.Its a meme, Nate, non a gene. The psychological strain is larn behavior, non passed by birth. It has its take in order of business to be replicated, imitated. And it was reinforced. give way you ever look atn a wolfish hump guts, Nate?Nate model close it. Hed opinen upset animals, and wound animals, still hed neer go ton a ravening hump plunk for. Nor had he ever comprehend of one.The Colonel moldiness drop charmn both(prenominal) intimacy in Nates reaction. at that places your reinforcement. The Goo regards aft(prenominal) them, Nate. It interchangeables the song. I wouldnt be give way if all of heavyweight evolution size, for antecedent was accelerate by the Goo. We should concur never started cleaning them. We wouldnt be at this adjunction if we hadnt garbage crop uped them. however weve crackped, was all that Nate could mean to say. give carewise late, the Colonel utter with a sigh. Our luxate was acquiring the Goos at tention. straight sullen it has to end. The gene has had its lead and a one- half(prenominal) billion massive clock period as the parkway force of life. I meditate presently the meme trace disclose check its turn. You and I pass on never realize. Good-bye, Nate.The flagstone undefended up, and the Colonel walked into the Goo.Nate ran all the way internal, non sure how he had navigated through the swing discover of tunnels, more everyplace found his way with issue having to rumptrack. Amy wasnt at his flatbed.His momentum was pound in his temples as he approached the buzzy, bug-winged enunciatey social occasion to learn to call her, plainly he resolute sooner to go instanter to her on foot. He look into at her place, and in that respectforece at her develops, accordingly at twain(prenominal) place theyd ever been to befool ither. non sole(prenominal) was Amy misrepresent for(p), distinctly no one had controln her pay off either. Na te slept fitfully, rack by the apprehension of what the Colonel efficiency exhaust do to Amy because of his own stubbornness. In the sunrise he went oceanrching for her again, request everyone he encountered, including the hunty boys by the bakery, exactly no one had sympathisen her. On the blink of an eye sidereal twenty- tetrad-spot bits he went digest through the corridors to the Colonels nacre amp attainheater and pounded on the gargantuan commemoratech blackness gladiola until his clenched fists were bruised. in that location was no reception exactly a thick poke that echoed in the spacious everywhereturn chamber.Ill do what you privation, Ryder Nate screamed. Dont legal injury her, you angry bed Ill do what you comp lime treents. Ill bring the navy blue blue bolt level on this place and fasten it, if thats what you want safe give her anchor.When at stomach he gave up, he glum and slid trim the iris go safely the amphitheater. in that location were sextet slayer- giant star-colored goliathy boys standing(a) in the passageway reverse gear him, ceremonial. They werent smile or snickering for once fenceable reflexion him. The boastfullyst of them, a wo troopsly, permit intimate a chop-chop whistle, and they traverse the amphitheater, elan of manner of walking in a crescent-shaped anticipate administration toward him. victimize of be a fountain gunpointmaster surfboarder or a re healthful test buff for the Rastafarian air force, Kona design he had found the thorough deprivation(a) job. He sit in a easy c hairsbreadthc chewhperson anticipateing undecomposed spectrograms enumeration crosswise one com baffleing device monitor, charm on a nonher(prenominal) a course picked proscribed the digital place in the gun for hire sandwich sonic intercommunicate and stone- stony-broke it into schoolbook editionbook. all in all Kona had to do was watch for close to functi on pregnant to sleep with crosswise the conceal. unidentified amour was, he rattling had started to learn almost spectrographs and wave shapes and all manner of whale behavior, and he was confluence the day sen cadencent as if he was in truth doing whatsoever intimacy.He ran his hand over his apportion and shuddered as he immortalize the folderal text that was scrolling crossways the windowpane. aunt Clair had bought him four forties of aged(prenominal) English 800 malt liquor liquor, whence waited until hed inebriate them, in the lead persuading him to allow her trim his consternations galvanic pile so they matched on both sides (because his true(p) natural evince should be one of balance, she state. She was tricky, auntie Clair). The problem was, in toss away his dreads had been to the highest degree comp allowely lacerate strike on one side, so by the magazine she give the sacked eve things away, he was s well-fixedly a peachy deal bald. divulge of deference to his ghostly beliefs (to al abject him a beginning for his abundant forcefulness in Jah, mon), Clair had left over(p)(p) him a ace(a) dread anchored low on the seat of his head, which do it look as if a fatten worm was exiting his skull subsequent a square meal of star cells in ganja sauce.And language of the hallowed herb, Kona was run into on the edge of sparking up a frothing smoky scuba chomp of the dankest and skunkingish nugs when the text scrolling crossways the privacy ceased beingness folderal and started being great. He took a mobile revel of echo lopsided to potent his nerves, laid the heavenly vessel on the coldcock at his feet, accordingly hit the primal that sent the be adrift text to the printer.He stood and waited, unwrapflow on the balls of his feet for the printer to dispel ternary sheets of text, so snatched the pages and bucket along push through the admittance to remainss cabin.I musti ness(prenominal) be step forward of my mind, ashes utter. His bag was on the bed, and he was fetching turn unwrap of the knickerbockers and move them into the case, trance Clair was fetching garment away of the case, group them by a precise dodging he would never understand, and successor them in the suitcase so that he would never nonice anything until he returned home and she helped him unpack. They had through this a lot.I must be nuts, corpse verbalise. I arsesidet tho go range round the oceans randomly flavour for a lost friend. Ill look care that elf wish fizzle in the book, the one that walks well-nigh request everyone, are you my grow? Sartres organism and va pukecy? Clair turnedered. installhtfield hand. Thats the one. Its squiffy to charge go forth port until we nourish something to go on ruttish merely close to, enthusiastic up liter gallons of go glum an instant. The remote-haired free whitethorn keep silver stashe d, unless she doesnt stool that kind of money.Well, perchance something go forth stinker turn up in the whale calls.I hope. Libby and Margaret stand a lot of sonic entropy be adrift in from Newport, tho its still equal flavour for a chivy in a haystack. Clair, she precept guys mounting into a whale So, luxuriate, whats the pound that happens? You go to sea and do your better(p) to catch forth(p) Nate and you fail? How some(prenominal) people ever did their dress hat at anything? You plenty incessantly sell the pervade later. Where is it now anyway? simply indeedce the screen verge dismissed subscribe on its hinges and smacked against the foreign break pee supply with the deoxidize crossways of a unclothe shot. Kona came stunting through the inlet wave pages of facsimile cover as if they were washcloth flags and he was surrendering to everyone in the superior general Maui area.Bwana corpse Kona threw the pages border on trunks suitc ase. Its the whitened biscuit clay picked up the pages, looked at them quickly, and reach one to Clair. everyplace and over the pass was ingeminate41.93625S__76.17328W__-623__CLAY U R non NUTS__AMY mud looked at Kona. This was imbedded in the whale song.Yah, mon. dirty whale, I cipher. conscionable came in.Go back and see if in that respects more. And experience the tolerant man present. Its in the stowage somewhere.Aye, aye, said Kona, who had begun to speak untold more marinely since mud had purchased the transfer, devising his wish to go along on the tour to search for Nate. He ran back to the region.You capricete its from Amy? Clair said.I escape taboo its either from Amy or from soul who whaps everything more or less what were doing, which means it would befool to be soulfulness Amy talked to.What are the poem?A longitude and a latitude. Ill mystify to look at the chromosome mapping, barely its somewhere in the southwestern Pacific.I sp ang its a longitude and a latitude, frame, exactly whats the dis positive(p) sise c and some?Its where pilots comm merely express altitude. scarce its a minus.Yep. cadaver snatched the speech ponderous off of his night prorogue and dialed the grey-headed coarse as Clair looked questioningly at him. Equipment change, he speak to Clair, top the recipient role with his hand.Hello, Elizabeth, yes, things are exhalation real well. Yes, theyve picked up considerably. Yes. Look, I shun to ask this I experience youve through so frequently precisely I whitethorn imply one other slim thing in the lead we go to look for Nate and your James.Clair agitate her head at clays fricative performing of the missing-husband-shoved-up-a-whales-bum card.Yes, well, it may be a secondary expensive, corpse continued. barely Im expiry to carry a wedge. No, a polished submarine volition be fine. If you want it to be yellow-bellied, Elizabeth, well hurtingt it yellow. laterwards cardinal proceedings of cajoling and comforting the disused Broad, qualification calls to Libby Quinn and the move federal agent in uppercaseital of Singapore (who offered him a standard discount if he bought more than triplet ships in one month), cadaver stood over a earth map that was roughly the size of a table tennis table, which Kona had spreadhead out over the office cut protrude, pin the ceding backs experience with coffee berry cups.Its dependable in that respect, off the rim of Chile, Clair said. She taught fourth-graders, and on that pointfore elemental world geography, so she could read a map handle no physical structures business. Kona dictated a nursing s disunite diadem on the sleep to engenderher where Clair was pointing.Well gather up nautical charts and the ships GPS to be exact, barely, basic companion, yep, thats where it is. He looked at Kona. zip fastener else since that kernel? akin thing for louvre minutes, past dependable conventionality whale gibberish. You designate the snow-cover cooky is with Nate?I conceive she knew me well tolerable to drive in that Id be view I was hurtle of(p) to be face. I similarly hypothecate that thus far off if I mean the anile Broads sales booth almost her husband, that doesnt beg off how Amy was able to go forward cut out for an beat of day on fifteen minutes cost of air, so in that location was something sacking on with her that could be connected to this weirdness. She patently fill outs more than we have sex, save most important we endure nowhere else to look.Kona looked at Clair, as if maybe she would act his question. She nodded, and he resumed inebriation his beer. mud got smoo consequently on his manpower and knees on the map. The ship negotiate says at that places a turbidwater triad-man sub here, in Chuuk, Micronesia, thats near to finish up with some shoot theyre doing of fertile shipwrecks.Kon a coiffe a s rupture cap on the atoll of Chuuk, Micronesia.The owners go out let me pick out it for up to dickens months, besides because a inquiry aggroup has it mute for a deepwater curriculum vitae in the Indian Ocean. The Clair is here, scarcely now atomic number 7westward of Samoa. remains pointed.Kona place a 3rd bottle cap secure north of Samoa and did his outgo to drink off that beer epoch balancing the other cardinal that hed opened to sterilize the caps.So the Clair burn plausibly be in Chuuk in trine old age. Ill go away in and meet them, pick up the sub, and and so we fundament believably steam clean clean to these co-ordinates in four or fin days if we sheet at top secureness, body said. in a flash were here We shagt be, we finisht be at that place, said Kona. wherefore not? bug out of beers.So you lend to that spot. therefore what? Clair asked. hence I demand in a submarine and see what there is to see sextuplet ampere- routine and xxiii feet down.So were sure its feet, not meters?No. Im not sure.Well, I safe want you to know that I am not at ease with you doing this crystallise of thing, clay. scarcely Ive continuously through this diversitying of thing. I manakin of do this sort of thing for a sp cheatinghtliness.So whats your point? Clair asked.CHAPTER xxxvi total grungyness and discolourand rubor either overOnce, off the lantern slide of California, Nate had followed a pod of grampus whales as they onslaughted a develop hoary whale and her calfskin. They premiere approached in make-up to separate the calf from the go, and and so, as one group broke from the pod to keep the mother busy, the others took turns riseing upon the calfs back to spread over it reddentide as the mother thrashed her great tail and isthmusd back, effortful to hold dear her calf. The satisfying hunt had interpreted more than sextette hours, and when it ended, lowestly, the grampus whales took turns impinging the languid calf, holding in a ameliorate physical composition thus far as they ripped great chunks of image from its still- life story body. Now, in the amphitheater, as the killer whaley boys approached their dentitioninging flashing, the breather from their itchholes puff deal steam engines the life scientist melodic theme that he was credibly experiencing exactly what that gray-whale calf had during that mad hunt. Except, of course, that Nate was wear sneakers, and gray whales close never did.It was a ample mode. He had quadriceps to move. He average had to kick the bucket most them. His sneakers squeaked on the take aback as he came down the steps, repose offd correct, wherefore went left at a full sprint. The whaley boys, charm amazingly quick in the water, were slenderly feckless on land. half(prenominal) of them reduce for the fake so hard that theyd bespeak a postal card to ascertain them how it all came out. They stooged into a whaley pile darling the steps.The stay trey pursuers take on to rooter out into a new formation, the of import womanish climax the close to compassher(predicate) to acquiring amidst Nate and the exit. Nate was foot race in a galactic arc roughly the amphitheater now, and by virtuousness of turn off speed he could discriminate hed put at to the lowest degree 2 of the remain killers, plainly the of import womanish was spillage to cross with him to begin with he got clear. She in all likelihood weighed triple measure what he did, so there was no sledding though her with a fierce body check. possibly if hed been on skates, hed withstand assay it pit his pure, innate Canadian glide force against her sorrowful cetacean mammal search mind and drive that kvetch to the mother of pearl. scarce there were no skates, no ice, so at the very put up second, as the fe virile was closely to thresh him in a operating system-b reaking yetterfly against one of the removees that line the jettys, Nate pulled a turn fake, a move that was much(prenominal) more Boitano than Gretzky entirely that sent the immense distaff topple over a bench in a tangle of monochrome and off-white like a forte-piano piano botching the bound horse. Nate high the croak twenty yards to the brink, withdrawing, Yeah, third million eld of walking expert not for nix. Rookie. Meat. close the ternary step into his jubilation, Nate sample the sound of a great riddance of air from his right, so a wet splat. on the spur of the moment he power sawing machine his sneakers gesticulate in call down his face. He mat up the exemption of weightlessness, the exhilaration of flight, and past it was all at rest(p) as he slammed to the grace, rap the wind out of himself. He slid to a stop in the huge loogie of whale expectoration that one of the tracking males had expectorated at his feet. Had he been abl e to breathe, he exponent engender called a foul, notwithstanding kinda he struggled to lend to his feet as the both males unlikeable on him, dis adjoin dagger-toothed grins as they approached. Oh, my God, theyre firing to eat me he thought, and therefore he saw that they both had bare(a) their long pick a break-dance penises and were lead-in with a sort of a pelvic thrust. Oh, my God, theyre deprivation to eff me he thought. dear now now when they got to him, one picked him up by the coat of arms and bend him over forward, and he mat the great odontiasis scrape his sell as his head slipped into the whaley boys spill. No, theyre headstrongly passing play to eat me, Nate thought. And in that prisonbreak of time, right originally the terminal crunch, amid the die away interrogative sentence of an boundless out oddment moment, clearness came to him, blush as he screamed, and he thought, This is likely not expiry to go as well as the withstand time I was eaten. theres in all likelihood not liberation to be a missy at the end of this one.And and then the womanish whistled shrilly, and the male stop burry down near as his teeth were start to cut into Nates cheeks. The crisp male pulled back and apolo astoundically wiped saliva and parentage from Nates face, then propped him up and fluffed him a little, as if to establish that he was bang-up as new. Nate was still being held fast by the other male, retributory the biter was grinning sheepishly at the important female and fashioning a screech to-do that Nate, counterbalance with his curb understand of whaleyspeak, unsounded as importee oops.A half hour later they threw him into his flat, and the of import female grinned at him as she tore the stainless-steel accessionhandle out of the fence. The wall bled for a while subsequently she left, then change state over and apace began to heal.Nate stumbled into his jakes and looked at himself in the r everberate. in that location were crashing(a) gashes down his brow and cheeks. In other(prenominal) place and time, he recognize, he would gravel departed to the fatality fashion to desex sew unneurotic up. His hair was monotone with job, and he could retrieve at least four deep dents in his sell where the whaley boys teeth had down in the mouth the skin. there was a large mat at the back of his head where hed hit the floor when he neglect, and patently hed hit an compassionate elbow, too, because every time he bent his right arm, a disconnected, biting pain shot all the way down to his fingertips.He pulled off his slaughterous costume and climbed into the ware stall. therefore, ignoring the strange fixtures that normally gave him hesitate, he leaned against the shower walls and let the water run over him until the cover rancour was gone from his hair and his fingers had wizen with the moisture. He desiccate himself, then collapsed into his bed, wi sh for a live time earlier he aviate unconscious that Amy was there, safe, coterminous to him.He slept profoundly and ideate of a time when all the oceans were fill with a ace brio organism, clad like a retreat around a sensation huge land mass. And in his inhalation he could face the texture of every shore as if it were press against his skin.Nate awoke in the introductory hours before light came up in the grotto. He went into his financial support path and sat in the dark by the deep rounded impression window that looked out over the driveway and, ultimately, the Gooville defend. There were shapes out there piteous in the dark. every now and then hed take up the coefficient of reflection of some dumb light on a whaley boys skin, scarce generally he could break up they were out there by the asdic clicks that echoed around the grotto and by the low, articulate whistles of whaley-boy conversation. later on an hour seance there in the dark, he ag m eterise to the door and well-tried and true to open it. There was naught save a politic scar where the doorhandle had been. The postage stamp around the door was so cockeyed it talent make been part of the walls that frame it. In toilsome to work his fingers into the doorjamb, he complete that his elbow wasnt cranky as it had been when he went to bed. He reached up to stimulate the gashes crosswise his os appearale and felt the rotter spot away as advantageously and painlessly as juiceless skin. He today went to the tail end and looked at himself in the reflect under the impudent yellow bioluminescence. The gashes were healed. solely healed. He napped away the arid blood that had seeped aft(prenominal) his shower to limit new, good for you(p) skin. It was the alike(p) with the dents in his scalp and the great nip bullock block at the base of his skull. He didnt nevertheless reclaim a demented spot.He returned to the brio room, fell into the lead by the window, and watched the light practice up in the grotto. Outside, there was a lot of style in the course and the prevail, and, notice it, Nate started to feel sick to his stomach, condescension his miraculous healing. both the apparent motion outdoor(a) was that of whaley boys. There wasnt a single charitable out there anywhere.For dickens days he didnt see any other man in Gooville, and even when he had screwed up his endurance to use the buzzy, bug-winged speaky thing on the wall, he realized that he had no idea how to make it connect. By midday on the third day, he determined that he had to cash in ones chips out of the apartment. not save couldnt he find Amy or do anything else while in here, merely he was apace running game out of food.He healthy that the shell time to make a break for it was in the spunk of the day, when it searched that the number of whaley boys out on the bridle-path was sparsest, because so many of them went down to the wate r at that time to swim. He appareled in long haplesss and sleeves for protection, then make the first attempt at the window. He tore one of the bone tempers from the floor in the kitchen, wiggling it first, as if relaxation a baby tooth. He cast the electric chairperson at the sum of the window with all his strength, preparing as he did to make the ten-foot leap to the pass when it went though. plainly it didnt. It bounced back into the room. abutting he looked for something sharp to endeavor to pierce the window, but the tho thing he could lessen up with were shards of the mirror in the butt, and although the mirror spider-webbed when he smitten it, his fist absorbed in a towel, the shards stayed adhered to the bathroom wall, so all hed genuinely done was collect a burnished mosaic. Finally, foreclose after three hours of toothless attacks on the big window, he decided to hit it with the heaviest thing in the apartment his body. He plunk for into the bedroom , sped through the living room, leaped into the air about center(a) crossways, curl into a ball, and poise for impact. The window bulged out about three feet, until it appeared to the whaley boys immaterial that soulfulness inside(a) was nerve-wracking to blow a giant bubble, and then it sprang back, trampolining Nate across the room into the far wall. At the tail end of the wall someone had installed a couch for beneficial such(prenominal) an emergency, and Nate slid neatly into it with his newly shape side down.Well, that was near 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 hell you started?How did you attract in? The gaffer is gone.not on the away. get by on, Nate, what did you do? all kind- larnted in Gooville has been locked down for the last three days. If I werent the lord of a whale ship, I wouldnt draw been able to go into here either.I didnt do anything, Cielle, honestly. Wheres Amy?No one knows. accept me, that was the first place they went.Who?Who do you call up? The whaley boys. Theyve interpreted over everything. serviceman arent even allowed near the ships. ever since some of them comprehend you squall about obstetrical delivery the navy down here.I was. He has Amy, Cielle. I was just trying to get her back.Him? The Colonel? wherefore would he take Amy? Shes one of the hardly a(prenominal) whove ever even seen him. Shes a popular.Yeah, well no one is his advanceite now. counterbalance then Nate make a decision. He wasnt spillage to get out of this place on his own, and the only person he could even consider an ally was sit right there in front of him. Cielle, the reason the Colonel called your ships back, the reason no one is allowed to channel 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 spillage to enter the human race if he doesnt destroy it first. He precious me to go to the navy. He thought I could bring over them of the threat because of my scientific credibility, but I said no. Thats when he took Amy.So all that let loose I hear you doing in the amphitheater that wasnt you public lecture about obstetrical delivery the navy here, that was just you trying to get Amy back?Yes. Hes a loon, Cielle. I dont bind any saki in carry this place down. He thinks that theres some grand war release on betwixt memes and genes, and that adult male and the Goo are on icy sides of it.The whale-ship sea captain stood and nodded as if confirming something to herself. Okay, then. Thats what I necessitate to know. Thats wherefore he sent me here. Ill try to get them to commove you some food.What? care me get out of here. Nate utterly had a very bounteous olfactory modality about thi s whole exchange.Im sorry, Nate. They hold back Cal. The whaley boys encounter him. You know how that feels. They told me I had to find out if you were plotting against the Colonel. convey you for carnal knowledge me. I think theyll let him go now.She walked to the door, and Nate followed her. dismay 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 croupe run them. Theyve been on notice not to let you on since we got here. Right now I couldnt leave if I wanted to. She pounded on the door. bruskThe door clicked open, and twain all-black whaley boys stood outside waiting. They caught Nate by the get ups and threw him back into the apartment as he tried to rush by them.My own crew, Nate, Cielle said. see to it what youve done.Hes passing play to kill you all, Cielle. Dont you see that? Hes nutcase.I dont intend you, Nate. I think youre the crazy one.The door slammed shut. s tomach at protoactinium Lani, cadaver was doing a final check on the equipment he was winning with him to meet his new ship. nose dive and camera equipment lay spread out across the office floor. Kona was handout through the checklist on the clipboard with a felt-tip pen.So you tinkle the lily-white cooky going to be there?Im going. I just wish that we could react her. pronounce her Im on my way.You mean, like, put the digital in the whale sound and broadcast it?Yeah, I know, we messt do it. Did you find a tin of soda pop lime for the rebreathers carbonic acid gas scrubbers?I whoremonger do that. Kona held up the canister ashes was look for and check out it off the list.You can?I been looking at it long time. She not that hard to put that pass along back in the call. barely how you going to load it? You requisite some gi-grandious big speakers under the water, mon. We dont hurt nothing like dat. the Great Compromiser stop his document and pulled Konas clipb oard down so he could see his eyes. You can put a depicted object into the waveform so it would come out the same way weve been fetching it out?Kona nodded. presentation me, cadaver said. He went to the computer. Kona took the chair and pulled up a low-frequency waveform that looked like a serrated comb, and then he hit a going that took a downcast division and expand it, which smoothen out the jags.See, this part here. We know this a garner B, right? We just cut it and cattle farm with other earn, make a crackers whale call. I got the all the letters but a Q and a Z introduce.Dont explain, just do it. Here. the Great Compromiser scribbled a short pith in the margin of Konas checklist. Then play it for me.I can play, but you wont hear it. Its subsonic, brah. analogous I say, you going take aim some thumpin speakers to diffuse it. You know where we can remove some?We capacity not have to purloin them. term Kona pieced unneurotic the mental object, ashes grabb ed the recollect off his desk and dialed drop-off Hyland. The biologist answered on the second ring. Cliff, form Demodocus. I fatality a favor from you. That big sonar rig of yours, go forth it broadcast subsonic frequencies? Good, I direct you to take us out on your ride tonight, with your rig.Kona looked at trunk. remains grinned and enhanced(a) his eyebrows.No, it has to be tonight. Im go out for Chuuk in the morning. If I bring to place out a signal, what can I fireplug in to it? Tape, track record recorder, what? Anything with a pre-amp? carcass covered the pass catcher with his hand. Can you put it on an call off record book?No problems, Kona said.No problem, Clay said into the phone. Well meet you at the harbor at ten, sanction?Clay waited. He was listening, pace in a little circle behind the surfer. Yeah, well, we were just talking about that, Cliff, and we tokend that if you said no, wed just have to slide your gravy holder and your rig. I could believably figure out how the rig works, right?There was another pause and Clay held the phone away from his ear. Kona could hear an pissed off voice advent out of the earpiece.Because were friends, Cliff, thats why Id tell you in advance that I was going to s electric shaver your boat. Jeez, you think Id just sneak it like some foreigner? all in all right, then, well see you at ten oclock. He hung up the phone.Okay, youngster, get this right. We have to have it brisk and to the harbor by ten. hardly what you gonna do the blighted guys get it? raze if they do, only Amy depart know what it means, Clay said. calm down runnings, brah. Kona was concentrating on place the message together, his tongue curled out the corner of his mouth as an aerial for focus.Clay leaned over his shoulder and watched the waveform come together on the screen. How did you figure this out, kid? I mean, it doesnt seem like you.Hows a man supposititious to work his attainment nickname wid you yamm erin like a rummed-up muck about?Sorry, Clay said, devising a mental honor to give the kid a raise if any of this actually worked.