Li-li ran full-speed down the hill path, hair flying breasts bouncing. She ducked branches and leaped dead logs, a headlong rush toward the strange sound. At last, as the brush cover broke, the wild girl came upon a wide clearing, across which was a strange device: a tracked machine with a huge flat front and a pipe that stuck out the top and belched black smoke. There was a man inside it, throwing levers madly. "My God! It's Lilith!" shouted a male voice. The jungle girl turned to see a man and a woman, older, staring at her. They both wore strange skins upon their bodies, supple and light colored. Li-li struggled to put a name to it: "clothes." "That's Lilith!" the man was shouting, pointing. "That's our daughter!" "My God! We thought she was dead!" the woman cried, and started toward her. The naked little jungle girl turned away and sprinted into the undergrowth again, leaving the pale-skinning clothes-wearers far behind, calling out in their strange voices. Her thoughts turned to the night, when she would slip into the dark-skinned people's village and coax Kumru into mating with her.... |
Monday, November 16, 2009
Jungle Princess
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