Establishing a base

by Ridcully Calvert

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After my abortive attempt to immolate poor luckless Mike, I hid in the kitchen waste pile at the back of the ship until we docked at site B. I waited until there was no activity on the pier, and then slunk over the single dock and into the lush tropical forest, trailing a miasma of rotten cabbage.

I looked for a hideout on the side of the huge volcano, which dominated the skyline of Kīlauea island. Curling up in a shallow cave for the night, I congratulated myself on finding a small cave with a great view over the island’s harbour.

There did not seem to be much happening, considering that they had just lost (as far as they knew) two prisoners. A few security guards with Alsations were making a half-hearted attempt at looking for me.

I noticed that when they approached the area where I had scurried across the docks, their dogs started pulling on their leashes and I could hear the whining up in my eagle’s nest.

It seemed that whatever was happening inside me could be detected by dogs. “Cool”, I said aloud

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Establishing a base

    Apostrophe 's Buddy Icon Apostrophe

    Posted 2 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    smart dogs..hope thier of the nice non biting persuasion

  2. Establishing a base

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 2 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Hope it’s just sort of a distressing noticing and not a ‘ooh, I’m gonna track that’ type noticing. Neat image of this guy holing up for who knows how long, just sitting back and considering what to do.

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    John Perkins' Buddy Icon John Perkins

    Posted 2 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Cool beans. Pretty sure I can work with this.
    Definitely a good job of setting things up for what’s to come, and a really well done job of getting Phil up here.

  4. Establishing a base

    Mighty-Joe Young's Buddy Icon Mighty-Joe Young

    Posted about 1 month ago

    HEY I LOVE THE VOLCANO HIDEOUT , i always wanted one.

  5. Establishing a base

    Mighty-Joe Young's Buddy Icon Mighty-Joe Young

    Posted about 1 month ago

    no sequel HOW DARE YALL GET ME ALL CAUGHT UP .

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