Alpha Adventures: First Three Novels
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“I was thinking about it, if Makarios doesn’t get his ass in gear. Before anyone starts mouthing, I have a permit for this,” she said, waggling the pistol slightly.
He might look like Indiana Jones on steroids, but like hell Lux was going to feel inferior to this guy’s swagger. Hal merely waved his hand in a dismissive gesture.
As they waited for Ben Makarios, Julie talked about recognizing poisonous berries and animals in the woods. Lux barely paid attention; there was hardly a thing that Miss North could tell her about the flora and fauna in the region that she didn’t know, but the two men paid polite attention.
The sun outside began to set, hot orange lines crawling into the window. It was late, but the Texas heat still oozed around them.
“So how long are we going to wait for this Ben guy to show?” Smith said. He had slowly but surely been displaying a slow withdrawal from the conversation, which admittedly had grown a little stilted as the length of time spent waiting for Makarios had extended beyond reasonable. Now his irritation was expressed in gritted jaw and drumming fingers. A lack of patience, Lux thought. Not ideal for a prolonged hunt.
“Not long,” a voice from the hall said.
Ben Makarios was a strange looking human. Like Hal, he had avian features, but where Hal was almost regal in his resemblance to a bird of prey, Makarios was a vulture. Carrion bird, all hunched angles, beaky face and beady, glittering eyes. A half smile that wouldn’t be out of place adorning the face of Loki, the trickster god.
“Sorry I’m late,” Ben said with a smirk.
Lux glowered at him. Her stomach rumbled quietly, the calorific content of her meager lunch at the diner now long gone.
“We’re leaving tomorrow, so you better sit down,” she grumbled.
“Tomorrow?” Julie asked, looking over.
“Yes.” Lux nodded. “Dawn. Makarios, this is Julia, Hal and Smith. Get yourselves acquainted; I’m going to get some food and an early night. But before I do, let’s get one thing clear. I’m sure you all think that you are the best thing since the combustion engine, but when we go into those woods, when I say do something, you do it. Any deviation from this will result in me dumping your asses and going home. Understood?”
The four members of her team, and it was going to be her team, looked dumfounded. Lux had barely spoken two words in their hour together. Lux let it hang, got out of her chair, and left. Let them talk. She had a job to do, and the respective egos of these four misfits had nothing to do with finding, or not finding, the mythical beast known to all as Sasquatch.
SASQUATCH
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