Sink or Swim (FEMME FATALE MONSTERS) by D.J. Russo EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: D.J. Russo
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OONA
Eat or be eaten. A mandate every living creature in the lagoon
understands. And unfortunately, it’s looking like I’m the one about to
be eaten today.
I stare down at the emerald python, my blood rushing in my ears as she
squeezes my chest so tight I hear, and feel, something pop. After thirty
minutes of thrashing about in the shallow waters of the lagoon, I’m spent.
And as the only one of my kind, I have no family to mourn me. Or avenge
me.
This sucks.
This is how my species finally dies out. I can’t even make a sound to
utter any last words. Pathetic. You know, perhaps it’s for the best that no
one else is around to witness my failure.
But I’ll give it one last hurrah and try to go down with a fight. With a
final display of ferocity, I open my mouth wide and thrust my fangs into the
scaly hide of the boa. The coppery tang of blood floods my mouth as she
writhes in agony, splashing water everywhere, and eventually releases her
hold on me.
I’m free. I’m actually free. Not wasting another second, I spring into
action and jam my leg down onto the python’s wriggling body, pinning it in
the muddy waters. Being nearly crushed to death is exhausting. I won’t be
able to hold her for long, and I can’t rely on my claws in this situation, so I
look around for something hard and blunt to strike her with.
The snake thrashes beneath my foot as I grab a rock no bigger than my
hand and whack it into her skull over and over, until her struggling ceases.
Her body goes limp. Dead at last.
Wiping my chin of the excess blood, I lean down to hoist the python
over my shoulder to make the short trek back to the tree house. A butterfly
the color of azure skies lands on my shoulder, and I surprise myself by not
shooing it away. It’s welcome company in a world that, from the second I
was hatched into it, has been determined to kill me.
As I wade through the water, a few smaller snakes glide across the
surface. These are too small to bother with, though had I grabbed fistfuls of
smaller snakes instead of going after the forest’s queen, maybe I wouldn’t
have almost died. But you don’t get stronger by only going after the easy
prey, and I can’t afford to rest on my laurels out here. It’s shit, but it’s home.
With the snake draped across my shoulders like a morbid trophy, I sink
deeper into the lagoon. The temperature drops with each step, but it doesn’t
bother me. When I’m out far enough, I slip below the surface just in time to
see a massive alligator lunging for me.
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