"Brian Lumley - In The Glow-Zone" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lumley Brian)

nobody ever came here …

The Woman and Her Two are very quiet now. Perhaps they are dead like Mommy. We think themen
got themmen and their dogs. Dogs are like rats but big even bigger than cats Mommy told us. We
couldn’t see the dogs much but we heard them making loud angry noises. We saw themen a lot of them
running through the village over there. They had ropes and we saw things jumping on the ropes where the
cold-white was deep following themen. Because the cold-white is deep we couldn’t see the dogs very
well but they jumped and made angry noises and we heard them.

We heard the Woman too she was crying very loud and Her Two were making noises like the dogs.
That was before dark. In the night themen laughed and the Woman made very bad noises. Now there is
no noise but the smoke is more than before. We think themen made a big fire before they left. The
cold-white is falling but over there we still see the smoke.

We know allmen are bastards because Mommy said so and she said what the bastards would do to us
if they found us. We think they did it to the Woman and Her Two. We will only light our fire at night.
Then themen and their dogs will stay out of the Glow-Zone …

Once before when it was warm and there were roots and some fat rats and a few fish aman found us.
He was a bastard.

When Mommy saw him coming she said hide and we did. He didn’t see us right off but we could see
him. He didn’t say a lot but we knew Mommy was frightened she was frightened of theman. We never
saw aman before he was a lot like Mommy. He had a stick-thing. Mommy gave him some fish to eat and
showed him a place to sleep when he was asleep she came to us and said he might be OK you stay there
and when he wakes up he might go away. Don’t let him see youshe said. She said he has a gun it is that
stick-thing he carries it can kill veryquick .

While she was talking theman got up and came over. He said what you got there in the back and
shoved Mommy out of the way. Then he said Goddamn might have known it a girl like you alone in the
Glow-Zone well you treat me right and there’ll be no trouble.

He caught hold of Mommy’s hair and started to pull her and we moved at him. He looked very
frightened he pointed his stick-thing Mommy saidno stay where you are it’s all right. We knew it
wasn’t.

It got dark soon we stayed where we were and listened to the funny noises in the dark. Theman was
making a lot of little noises and Mommy was crying but quietly. It was very dark when she came to us
she said go get the axe the bastard’s really asleep this time we’ll kill him but let me get his gun first.

We got the axe she got his gun and he came awake. Mommy stood back and we got hold of him quick
before he could stand and hit him in the body with the axe. No noMommy saidhis head get his head.
He was shoutingoh my god my god we hit him in the head. There was a lot of blood.
 Next morning Mommy said we won’t bury such as him he’ll feed the fish so we took him to the river.
His body moved slow in the water towards town right in the middle of the Glow-Zone. Serve the bastard
right Mommy said.

It is very cold we think of a fire. A fire will bringmen but not if we use the Woman and Her Two’s fire.
We think they must be dead. Anyway we are cold.