Story Time
Bone Part 40
You look a little nervous, Bone.
I don’t know what’s worse! Waiting for the rat creatures, or waiting for the wind to blow a tree down on our heads!
Don’t worry about the trees. They’ve stood up to worse than this--
CRACK
R-R-R-R-R-R-R- SSHHHSHS SNAP! CRAK!
CRASSH!
Oh yeah? That was a tree falling down somewhere! And close too! Worried about it NOW, Mr. Smarty Pants?
That tree was up ahead. Somebody just blocked our path.
Lucius!
What do I do? What do I do?
Walk your cow over to us… But do it SLOWLY. Don’t make any sudden moves.
Here, take this knife and keep your head down. .. I’m going to try to stall them so Smiley can get past us...
Hairy men! Why have you stopped us?!
SSSSSSSSS
Give us the creature… With the star on its chest...
...Give it to us… And we will let you go on your way...
Smiley! Go!! Run to the tavern--Get help!
Too late!
SMACK
YEEE-HAW!
Oof!
Stop them!
The reins!
reins
What?
Get the reins!!
BAM!
CRUNCH
Oh no!
What?! What?!
Old Man’s Cave!!
Yip! Yip! Yip!
Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip!
Woo! Woo!
Smiley! You saved us!
Yahhoo!
Smiley! The cliff!!
I’m with you! Get along little doggie! Yah! Yah!
YAAAAA
AAAAA
GAAH! Sput! Sputter!
You--You-- You’re crazy!!
I got us away from the rat creatures, didn’t I?
RRRRRRRFF! Yeah. You did do that.
KRAK BOOM!
Is EVERYTHING I do with you boys going to be like this?
Like what?
Meanwhile back at the barn...
Dreams are windows to the spirit world...
That’s what our ancestors believed. A world from which everyone comes… and to which everyone must one day return.
In the old times, it was believed our ancestors could move through the spirit world, and visit other people’s dreams.
Do you and Grandma believe that?
I’m not sure. Grandma never liked to talk about dreams. Especially my dreams about dragons.
Well, I don’t know anything about spirit worlds, but it sure seems like the dragon paid me a visit the other night...
His head appeared in my dream breaking through the surface of the ocean… when I told him about it the next day, he says, “Welcome aboard, Ishmael!”
Only the weird things is I never told him the dream was about Moby Dick!
He said Ishmael? He knew your dream was about Moby Dick?
Scary, huh? How’d he know what I was dreaming about? And he knew about that creepy guy in your dream, too! So who was that?
In my dream? I don’t know… It was a hooded figure. whoever--or whatever--it was, I was very frightened.
Hm. And you said he had my face.
He had your face, but I think he was just using it to lure me to him.
And a group of hooded people were taking you over the mountains to live with the dragons...
Yes. That was the dream I used to have as a little girl. I wonder how safe it is for us to be talking about this...
All the dreams are about dragons and hooded people! There’s a pattern here, Thorn! Something’s going on!
Did you hear something?
Grandma Ben knows the truth about where you were raised! How come she’s never told you? Instead, she told you that dragons aren’t real--
CREEAK
END OF PART 40