"Leslie What & Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Chain of Command" - читать интересную книгу автора (What Leslie)

sunflower seeds and roll up in whole wheat tortillas.
My cooler held a case of chocolate truffles, a few bottles of my favorite white zinfandel, barbecue sauce,
spices, and pork casings to make sausages, in case there were any leftovers from the kill. Okay, so we
were militant, but I was born in the Midwest, and when you were from Iowa, you never threw away
anything you could can, freeze, or over-winter in the cellar.



The retreat was near the Washington/Oregon border, a three-hour drive by highway, a little over two
hours if you knew how to get there off-road, which I did. I ignored Kayla's whining and refused to take
the Jeep out of four-wheel drive until we had crossed a shallow ravine called Starving Woman Creek.
The creek was empty year-round, except for an occasional flash flood. Tomorrow, if things went well,
we planned to fill it with a river of animal blood when we hosted our full moon Earth Mutha ceremony.



"Mom," Kayla said, "you're not really going to trap trolls, are you?"



"It doesn't hurt them," I said, for the umpteenth time. "We just trap them in cages to transport back to the
Idaho wilds." I had no sympathy for the hairy beasts. They weren't even native to the area and had been
brought to the Northwest by Idaho farmers looking for cheap help to harvest their potato crop.



"Goddess, Mother!" she said, using that I-can't-wait-till-you're-in-the-nursing-home voice. "I suppose
you think it was okay for the government to intern Japanese Americans during World War II."



"Not a good analogy," I said. "This is way different. Trolls aren't even human. They behave like pigs.
They steal our supplies, trash our site, and urinate on our bedding. That's why they're called trolls, for
Goddess' sake."



"Now you're going to pretend like I don't know what I'm talking about so you don't have to listen," Kayla
said. "You and your friends are bigger thugs than the trolls."



"I'm sorry, dear, but the trolls are too much of a nuisance to ignore. We tried living in peace with them,
but this really is an `Us or Them' kind of issue, and I'm sorry you don't understand that." How quickly our
discussions degenerated into variations of Because I Told You So!



"It's people like you who make us have wars," Kayla proclaimed.