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- Author: Amy Plum
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JUNEAU
I CROUCH LOW TO THE GROUND, PRESSING MY back to the ancient
spruce tree, and raise my crossbow in one hand. Keeping my eye on the
precious shard of mirror embedded in my weapon, I inch it out from behind
the tree. In the reflection, I spot something moving behind a cedar across
the snowy clearing.
From the cracking of branches to my right, I sense that another foe lurks
nearby. I can’t see him. Can’t see his inevitable scars and pockmarks—
damage from the nuclear radiation. But I know he’s there. I’ll have to take
my chances. You have to be tough to survive an apocalypse.
I leap from behind the tree, duck as I see a missile hurtling toward me
from a low scrub of holly bush, and simultaneously shoot in front of me. I
hit the ground and roll, leaping back to my feet.
“I hit you!” yells a voice from the bushes. I hear a rustling of leaves, and
then my friend Nome pops out, her hair glowing like burnished gold against
the green and red holly.
“No you didn’t!” I yell back, but then I look down to where she’s
pointing. Gooseberry pulp drips off the sleeve of my buckskin parka. “It’s
just my arm. It wouldn’t have been lethal,” I say, flicking off the fruit
sludge. But I know that though it wouldn’t have killed me on the spot, I
would have been injured. And any injury would slow me down. Nome’s
gooseberry would have meant my eventual death in the case of a true attack
on our village.
Kenai steps from behind the cedar with a moose antler in his hand. He
has painted an evil face on the wide part of the horn, and my arrow
protrudes from its forehead.
“Bull’s-eye,” he says, and begins to make gurgling sounds as his
homemade brigand suffers a painful and drawn-out demise. Trust Kenai to
lighten a heavy moment.
The antler’s death throes are interrupted by Nikiski, who runs up with
his hands in the air. “Cease-fire,” he yells, and then grins widely to show
two missing front teeth. “Juneau, Whit wants you to come see him in the
school. Something about hunting. Something about being low on meat. And
Dennis wants you two”—Nikiski gestures to Kenai and Nome—“to drop by
the library for something about a project he wants you to do.”
“Thank you for that precise and informative message,” Kenai says,
ruffling Nikiski’s hair with his hand as he walks past the boy toward the
village. “Battle officially over,” he calls behind him. “Brigand slain, but
Junebug injured. Ten points to Nome.”
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