![]() The Watchers
Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo -- EXCERPT: After walking for about an hour, the tunnel deposited us into a larger cavern. Every inch of space was filled with mushrooms. They were glittering blue patches of bioluminescent light. It was strangely hypnotic and exactly how I imagined another planet might look. Larna dropped her hand from my shoulder. By the soft glow coming off the walls, I could see her admiring the shimmering fungi with her mouth slightly ajar. Upon closer inspection, I realized that not all of the mushrooms were glowing. There was a section of fungi that darkened a spot on the wall where Al had stopped. As I joined him, his voice carried around the cavernous space, making him sound haunted and forlorn. “Bluefoot I plucked one off the wall because I had worked up an appetite, and popped it into my mouth and then Taking a quick swig of water from Larna’s pack, I hissed, “You eat that?” “They taste better cooked,” Al said, his mouth quirking up in amusement. “But they’re great protein. You “I’d rather eat sludge,” I muttered under my breath. The further we progressed, the more claustrophobic I started to feel. Being in closed-off spaces and in the pitchdark for hours was taking its toll on me. I deposited a pebble from the bottom of my shoe back to its home, noticing for the first time how many blisters I had accumulated during this trek. I couldn’t see them, but I could definitely feel them. Mental note: Converse do not make great hiking shoes. I had a pair of perfectly fine boots, but they were swimming with the fish at the bottom of the ocean. That morning, before Larna dropped my bag, I had switched them out, hoping the gnarly blisters on my feet might heal if I wore a different pair of shoes. Everything hurt, but I didn’t want to be the first to whine, so I sucked it up, and we continued on … and on …and on … until it seemed like we’d never see the light of day ever again. I felt something dark and sinister twisting its skeletal little fingers into my gut. That thought sent me into an even more depressed spiral, and pretty soon that depression turned into an infection. What if Al didn’t really know where he was going? What if he was leading me to my death? He loved Larna—he didn’t care about me. They could see in the dark—all they had to do was leave me behind, and I would be lost down here forever. It wasn’t until I felt Larna’s hand shift on my shoulder that I realized she was still beside me. Still, resentment started to gnaw away at me. ![]()
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3 Comments
Sherry
12/15/2018 02:37:16 pm
Sounds like a very good book.
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Jolanda
12/16/2018 02:30:20 am
Sounds great
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Bea LaRocca
12/19/2018 10:32:14 pm
Great cover! This sounds like an awesome read.
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