"Kit Reed - What Wolves Know" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reed Kit)

тАЬAre you going to help me or what?тАЭ The man lunges. Should Happy
attack? Other words rush in. Clothes. Arms. Clothes cover the manтАЩs stiff
arms and he is waving them madly. How can Happy tear out the throat with
all that in the way? Can he bring the man down before he pulls out his...

Another of HappyтАЩs words comes back. Gun. It makes him shudder.

тАЬBrent, heтАЩs shaking.тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩm only trying to help him!тАЭ

тАЬOh, you poor thing.тАЭ Sweet, that voice. She sounds like his ...
Another word he used to know. Mother. Parts of Happy change in ways he
does not understand. She says, тАЬLook at him, Brent, heтАЩs shaking!тАЭ

тАЬOh,тАЭ Happy barks hysterically. тАЬOh, oh!тАЭ

тАЬCome on, now. Calm down or IтАЩll give you another shot.тАЭ

The man makes a grab for him. In another minute those hands will
close in his fur. Grief touches Happy like a feather, for like the man with his
grasping fingers and not-quite barking, Happy is more pink than fur. It is
confusing.

тАЬDonтАЩt be afraid,тАЭ the woman says. тАЬCome on, sweetie, come to
Mother.тАЭ

Happy will not know exactly who he means when he thinks, This is
nothing like Mother. It does not explain, but measures the extent of his
confusion. In this and every other circumstance, HappyтАЩs position is
ambiguous.
 This is not one of HappyтАЩs words: ambiguous. He has been pulled out
of a place he canтАЩt explain into a world he doesnтАЩt understand and it makes
him sick with grief.

He doesnтАЩt belong anywhere.

тАЬOh,тАЭ Happy yelps. Then more words come. тАЬOh, donтАЩt!тАЭ Although he
has outlived his mother Sonia and half his litter-mates, in wolf years, in
human time, Happy is still a puppy.

He does what any puppy does when cornered and outnumbered. He
rolls over and shows his throat.

тАЬFor GodтАЩs sake, kid, get up. What will people think? Get him up,
Susan, theyтАЩre staring.тАЭ

Others come. Men. Women. People withтАФhow does he know
thisтАФcameras! People are pointing their cameras. Kept out by the rope that
protects the live baggage claim area, strangers jostle, straining to see.