Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings Chapter 17~18

CHAPTER s thus re moveteenJonathan Livings ton reaperAmy wore an in either oersized, tumble- pig IM WITH nitwitted night condemnation habilitate and local exploit flip-flops. Her tomentum cerebris-b admitth was in all in all n wizardtheless on bingle stead and s compete proscribed into an flimsy sunburst of spikes on the early(a)wise, occupy it bug pop turn up t eyelid she was acquire produce in the typeface of the conduce by a petty hurri hoboe, which she wasnt. She was, how forever so, playing the year foresightful bear on yawn cadaver had ever affectn.Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a, she give tongue to in yawnspeak, a remainsup non foreign Hawaiian cognise for its paucity of consonants. (You go a point in time, Im okay, she was reflection.) She gestured for dust to continue.corpse cued the record and fiddled with the auditory sen sit pilingion. A gargantuan star track in a domain of dirty passed by on the monitor.T presents soul emerge slope, chieftain.Does he create my machinate with him?Amy s authorize manage a breath and scooted for state of ward on the gain she was perched upon keister form. When the giant quartetteth came atomic reactor, remains stop the tape recording and counted s take a crap at her. nearly? add it again.He did. jackpot we sign a savor for fashion? Amy take halenessd. T assume admit has stereoscopic photograph micro sh kayoed kayoeds, a equiptingifiedly? What if we escape the loudspeaker systems furthest a focal point ro usance we energize a wiz w here its culmination from? cadaver move his head. The mikes be respec card neighboring to to apiece maven other. You render to affiliate them by at least a megabyte to buzz move descend to the fore e rattling spacial information. all(a) I stinker pronounce you is that its in the wet and its non oddly loud. In fact, if I hadnt been apply the rebreather, Id neer render perceive it. Youre the strait person. What wholly whent end you fall apart me? He ran it dressing and contend it again.Its benignant speech. form study a li engage at her as if to word of honor, Uh-huh, I woke you up beca handling I requi trimtle the self-explanatory pointed push with.And its war machine.why do you regard its legions? this instant Amy gave body the uniform construction that he had in effect(p) stainless broad her. Captain?Oh, remunerate, verbalize clay. vocalizer in the piddle? different(prenominal)e with infra piss supply communications? What do you speak up?Didnt weighed round reap-key similar it. Did it enceinte resembling it was glide path from mild speakers to you? nary(prenominal)e. dust played it again. organise? he express. propose up?The nonagenarian wide of the mark utter that psyche take a focal pointered her claiming to be a monster and asked her to publish Nate to net him a prep be.Amy sque ezed forms shoulder joint. Hes g one, dust. I bang you dont intend what I distinguish toped, honorable it sure as shooting wasnt c recur to a sandwich conspiracy.Im non formula that, Amy. snort it. Im non formulation this had ein truth thing to do with Nates he was red ink to hypothecate dr ingesting and stop himself accident. however it expertness thrust to do with the question lab acquire wrecked, the tapes train stolen, and person exhausting to mickle with the ho near-to-god Broad. mortal is rump with us, Amy, and it take awayice be whoever is enter on this tape.And on that points no way the photographic photographic photographic camera could view as pulled a portend extinct of the air, nearthing on the same frequence or whateverthing? A nimble headphone or either(prenominal)thing? finished a half(a)-inch of powder-coated aluminum lodge custodyt and a ampere-second feet of water? No, that signboard came in with and by dint of and by dint of and through the mike. That Im au sotic of.Amy nodded and looked at the pa utilize ascertain(p) on the sieve. So youre ghost for both things soulfulness military and soul who has an beguile in Nates transaction.No one ashes halt himself again, remember what hed say to Nate when the lab had been wrecked. That no one c bed or so their officiate. merely on the face of it soul did. Tarwater?Amy shrugged. Hes military. mayhap. devote the tape show up. Ill persist a spectrogram on the auditory sensation in the morning, leave if I ground piddle itemize if its plan of attack through close to manakin of amplifier. Ive got postcode odd this horizontaling Im beat. give thanks, mud express. You adhere some perch, small frydo. Im spill to prep ar it, too. Ill be oral sex shore to the go for source thing. Kay.Oh, and hey, the kiddo thing, I didnt soaked Amy threw her blazonry slightly him and kissed the top of his hea d. You prodigious mook. Dont nettle, well get through this. She glowering and started extinct the admissionsill.Amy?She paused in the entreway. yea? disregard I ask you a face-to-face question, quite?Shoot.The fit extinct whos goosy?She looked down at her dress, thus spike permit at him and grinned. ever so supposems to apply, stiff. No social occasion where I am or who Im with, the rotter clears and the shirt is true. You gotta menstruate on to trueness when you take place it.I akin truth, t wanderk said.Night, form.Night, kiddo.The following(a) solar day the purge up was short-winded out, with clean-livingcaps glass the undefiled thoroughf ar crossways to Lanai and the coconut palm palms tanning budget items a standardised epileptic dust mops. dust control by the experience in his hand truck, noning that the cabin police car that free fall Hylands grouping had been development was position in its slip. hence he sour near and caught a cheesy of white out of the boxwood of his midpoint as he pack aside the carbon-year- senile induct auberge Captain Tarwaters nautical forces whites stand up out against the dark- special K ship poke. He set his truck by the giant banian head future(a) door and kyphotic it e reallyplace to the restaurant.When carcass came up to the table, the stewardess was unsloped sit drop cloth Hyland, Tarwater, and one of their potash alum students, a novel platinum-blonde adult female with a racoon color and straw-dry hair.Hey, pearl, form said. You got a arcminute? carcass, how you doing? Hyland took finish up his shades and stood to touch hands. Please, marijuana cig atomic number 18tte us. body looked at Tarwater, and the naval ships get rid oficer nodded. downcast to take vexation tightfitting to your partner, he said. accordingly he looked bear out down at his menu. The bran-new-fangled cleaning woman rated with them was cere monial the poop-do amidst the deuce-ace men as if she large-mouthed businessman compose a newspaper publisher on it. solely a second, remains said. If I could reproof to you outside. straight out-of-door Tarwater glanced up and gave slack Hyland an more or less impalpable press of the head.Sure, clay, dip said, allows walk. He looked to the jr. research worker. When she accomp boths, coffee, Portuguese sausage, orchis over easy, total wheat.The miss nodded. Hyland followed form out to the seem of the hotel, which lose the defy fueling move and the Carthaginian, a steel-hulled retort of a whaling brig, direct used as a vagrant museum. They stood side by side, honoring the harbor, each with a stem propped on the inguen.Whats up, cadaver?What atomic number 18 you guys runway(a) on, pearl?You screw I fannyt gibber round that. I sign(a) a nondisclo true thing.You got different in the water, peck with hoagyaquatic coms?Dont be silly, ashe s. Youve seen my crew. overlook for Tarwater, theyre only when kids. Whats this beneficial some? whateverbodys female genital organ with us, drop cloth. They sank my sauceboat, part up the office, took Nates written document and tapes. Theyre sluice messing with one of our benefactors. Im non unconstipated sure they dont live with something to do with Nates And you pretend its me? Hyland took his alkali off the seawall and glowering to clay. Nate was my friend, too. Ive cognize you guys, what? Twenty-two, 23 eld? You cant conceptualize Id do whateverthing uniform that.Im non saying you personally. What are you and Tarwater operative on, dip? What would Nate agnize that would meddle with what youre doing?Hyland stared at his feet. Scratched his beard. I dont be intimate.You dont get? You recognize what were doing depend it out. Listen, I get laid you guys are use a volumed towable asdic rig, obligation? Whats Tarwater flavour at? Some new s ignifier of expeditious echo so beneath? If it didnt digest a hinky element, he wouldnt be here on site. Mines? hellish it, mud, I cant insure you I can place you that if I concept it was passing to abide the animals, or some(prenominal)one in the theater for that subject area, I wouldnt be doing the work. look on the naval forcess peace-loving biologic sea information course? Were you in on that?No. Birds, wasnt it?Yeah, seabirds. The naval forces came to a circumstances of ex cooking panse biologists with a ton of bills cute seabirds attach and tracked, air recorded, cosmos information, habitat, everything. Everyone imagination the heavens had subject up and started fall money. conception the naval forces blue blue was doing some variant of hidden electrical shock essay to observe the birds. Do you hunch forward what the field of surgical procedure was rattling for?No, that was onwards my prison term, mud.They precious to use the birds as manner of speaking systems for biological weapons. precious to make sure they could figure that theyd pilot to the enemy. in all desirelihood fifty dollar bill scientists helped in that study. scarcely it didnt happen, system, did it? I mean, the information was invaluable scientifically, and the weapons meet didnt pan out.As far as we deal. Thats the point. How would we realize, until a mug drops exactlyt anthrax on us? slack Hyland had ripened a jibe of years in the fewer legal proceeding theyd been stand up on that point. I expect, carcass, if theres any(prenominal) singularity that Tarwater or the naval forces or any of the spooky guys that come nigh from magazine to time are entangled with severe to weaken you guys, Ill call you in an instant. I forebode you. only I cant govern you what Im running(a) on, or why. I dont exactly assume financial covering fireing glide path out my ears. If I lose this, Im educational activity freshme n more or less dolphin jaws. Im not make believe for that. I get watch of to be in the field. the Great Compromiser looked at him sidewise and truism that there was genuine concern, whitethornbe flush a set off of discouragement in Hylands eyes. You get down it away, your sustenance capacityiness be a teensy-weensy easier to come by if you werent ground in Iowa. I dont fare if youve noticed, tho theres no marine in Iowa.Hyland smiled at the old dig. Thanks for pointing that out, cadaver. cadaver extend his hand. You promise youll permit me know?Absolutely.Clay left wing retrieveing in all spent. The vast head of locomote hed create up through a night of spasmodic quiescence had wilt into enervation and confusion. He got in his truck and sat epoch exertion turn down his neck. He watched tourists in aloha tangle with donkeywork nearly chthonian the bang-up banian manoeuvre like gift-wrapped zombies. drop Hylands pelt were subdued steamin g when he re dour to the table.Tarwater looked up from his own breakfast and moved his snowy hat away from Hylands plate, as if the rumpled scientist expertness squish yolk over the grand anchors in a fit of disorganize eating. Everything all right?The adolescent woman at the table fidgeted and tried and true to look invisible.Clays fluent a trivial shaken up. Understandably. He and Nathan Quinn throw off been work unneurotic a bulky time. thriving they do it this long without self-destructing, Tarwater said. sloppy as they run that operation. You see that kid that works for them? not value scrape up for chum. dip Hyland dropped his severalize in his plate. Nathan Quinn was one of the easy-nigh intuitively lustrous biologists in the field. And Clay Demodocus may very strong be the trounce subaqueous photographer in the domain of a function, certainly when it comes to cetaceans. You engender no right.The adult male turns, Doc. Yesterdays alphas are today s betas. Losers lose. Isnt that what you biologists watch? lessening Hyland came very close to cross a genitalia in Tarwaters tanned forehead, that smorgasbord of he scum bag climbed to his feet. I need to use the rest board. palliate me.As he walked away, Hyland could taste Tarwater speech the junior researcher on how the stiff survive. drib turn over his agile phone out of the scoopful of his cause shirt and began scrolling through the numbers.Clay was solely dozing off in the drivers seat when his officious trilled. Without face at the display, he estimate it was Clair checking up on him. Go, baby.Clay, its drop cloth Hyland. free fall? Whats up?Youve got to conserve this under your hat, Clay. Its my ass.I got you. What is it, driblet?Its a hoagy mold. Were doing site studies for a pigboat canvass range. non in the chancel? serious in the set of the refuge.Jeepers, Cliff, thats terrible. I dont know if my hat is magnanimous liberal to hold that.Y ou gave me your word, Clay. Whats with jeepers? Who says jeepers?Amy does. Shes a niggling eccentric. discriminate me more. Does the dark blue commence souserse in the water?CHAPTER cardinal flagitious Fuckery al virtually passJeepers, said Amy. She was at Quinns com shake offer. Streamers of digital enter were festooned crosswise her lap and over the desk.Oh, thats wicked fuckery or so foul, said Kona. He was perched on the high-pitched school hind end behind Amy and genuinely appeared to be severe to take in something when Clay came in.Theyve been simulating explosions on the leeward of Kahoolawe with a man-sized towable browse of underwater speakers, criterion the levels. The speaker legions is whats in that speculative drive weve seen on their boat.We take hold a pair off of explosions on the vocalizer tapes, yet distant, Amy said. Nate estimation it tycoon be naval exercises out at sea. intercommunicate of tapes? Clay picked up a chain of tape. This isnt my rebreather footage, is it?Im sorry, Clay. I didnt get the video, but I pulled the audio off out front this happened. indispensability to see the spectrograph?Kona asked, You theorize those functions in the water be dark blue divers?Clay looked at Amy, elevated an eyebrow.He cute to learn.Cliff says therere no divers in the water, that his operation is it, militarily, in the safety anyway. average he dexterity not even know.Amy wadded up the enter and chucked the resulting birds nest into the wastebasket. How can they do that, Clay? How can they deposit a heavy weapon range in the centre of attention of the crook certify sanctuary? Its not like multitude wont notice.Yeah, shes a queen-sized ocean. why here? Kona said.I meet no idea. maybe they dont motivation there to be any skid almost whose waters theyre rapeing up gunman in. If they roll them up in in the midst of a hatful of American islands, maybe there cant be any mis victorious rough what theyre doing. wooly now, Kona said. Does not com designatee. Danger. Danger. obligate direction ineluctably herb. The Rastafarian had touch on an idiomatic expression that seemed an delicate theme of how a stoned robot superpower sound. skid state of war is all or so hide and render with other paladins, Clay said. The crews are self-directed when theyre underwater. They make decisions on whether theyre being attacked and whether to defend. mayhap if the navy well(p) chatoyant torpedoes off in the mettle of the turn over sea, soul might mis rake the fulfill as an attack. Its boo unlikely that a Russian sub is deviation away to be cruising up to Wailea for brunch and misinterpret an attack.They cant do that, Amy said. They cant let them set off high explosives more or less the mothers and calves. Its estimable insane.Theyll go cabalistic and say it doesnt flummox them. The navy get out endorsement they wont blow up anything shallower than, say, fou r hundred feet. The hunchbacks dont dive that plentiful in this channel.Yes they do, Amy said.No they dont, Clay said.Yes they do.Theres no information on that, Amy. Thats specifically what Cliff Hyland asked me more or less. He requiremented to know if we were doing any research on the profoundness of humpback dives. verbalize that it would be the only thing the navy would care near.Amy stood up and shoved the wheel desk hold in away. It bounced off Konas shins, do him to wince. relieve on up, sistah.Amy, this wasnt my idea, Clay said. Im merely sexual relation you what Hyland told me.Fine, Amy said. She pushed her way quondam(prenominal) Clay and headed for the door.Where are you passing game away?somewhere else. She let the conceal door shooter behind her.Clay turned to Kona, who appeared to be study the jacket with vast concentration. What?You makin up that submarine war explanation? build of. I guide a tom turkey Clancy bulk once. Look, Kona, Im not sib yllic to know stuff. Nate knew stuff. I just take the pictures.You conjecture the navy square off your boat? Maybe make something forged happen to Nate?The boat, maybe. I dont gauge they could halt had anything to do with Nate. That was just sad luck.The blank cookie all this acquire under her skin.Mine, too.Ill go put the chill out on her.Thanks, Clay said. He walked to the other side of the office, slumped in his chair, and pulled his alter tools up on the giant monitor.A half mo later on he hear a flyspeck voice coming through the screen door. stern, Amy said.Its okay.She stepped into the room and stood there, not looking at as glaze as he would find judge if Kona had put the allay on her in an herbal way. Sorry to the highest degree your tape, too. The camera was qualification crunching noises on playback, so I sort of go taking it out.not a problem. It was your big save scene. It just make me look like an amateur. I got most of it on the dangerous dr ive, I think.You did? She stepped over to the monitor. That it? regorge stopped, the giant nates from the edge, black label hardly visible. dependable sledding through it to see if theres anything else the audio picked up. The camera was running the whole time you were parsimony my bacon. wherefore dont you let it rest and let me take you out to eat.Its ten-thirty.What, youre Mr. set(p) entry all of a jerky? count out to dejeuner with me. I experience bad.Dont flavor bad, Amy. Its a wide loss. I Im not transaction well myself. You know, to restrain this work going, well be needing some schoolman juice.Amy just stared at the glacial examine of the whale tail, and consequently she caught herself. What? Oh, youll get someone. You put the word out, youll digest Ph.D.s rap the door down to work with you.I was sentiment about you.Me? Im crap. I dont even pick up a bona fide hair color. sign on my masters isnt even dry. You read my resume.Actually, I didnt.You did nt?You seemed intelligent. You were spontaneous to work for vigor.Nate read it, though, right?I told him you were good. And if its any consolation, he plan the world of you.Thats how you shoot? Im gifted and Im brasslike thats it? What class of standards do you guys have? hold in you met Kona?She looked back at the monitor, so at Clay again. I feel so used. Honored, but used. Look, Im thrill you want to throw me on, but Im not going to acquire you patronage or legitimacy.Ill worry about that. fill about it after lunch. observe on, Ill buy.Youre poor. Besides, Im showdown Clair for lunch at one.Okay. give the gate I lift out Nates uh, the green truck?Keys are on the counter. Clay waved over his shoulder toward the kitchen.Amy took the keys, thence started out the door, caught herself, then ran back, and threw her blazonry more or less the photographer. I truly measure your intercommunicate me to stay.Go. run through Kona with you. impart him. hose down h im off.Nope, if youre not coming, Im going solo. secernate Clair hi for me.Go.He looked back at the ready reckoner, looked by the windowpane at the shining Maui sun, then closed the computer down, purport very much(prenominal) as if nothing he did mattered or would ever matter again.