Black Pearl (2013)
“Where could they have gone?
He turned to Mako. ‘Colonel, can you see anything moving out on the water, just beyond the edge of the vegetation?’ Mako eased into a better position, swivelled his alien, almost insect-like head, and focused the night-vision goggles on the outer edge of the mangroves.
‘Nothing,’ he rumbled.
Richard hissed with frustration, looking back into the vast blackness of the jungle behind him. You could hide an army in there, if you could avoid the night-vision goggles, he t...hought bitterly. Ngoboi had come ashore. And there was only one likely target important enough to tempt the angry god. ‘Colonel,’ he grated, handing back the camera stick and the handset, ‘we’ve got to get back to the orphanage as quickly as we can.’ He paused, his mind whirling. ‘Except for one patrol. Leave a patrol here to search along the bankside. There’s a way down to the river through the mangroves and the undergrowth. It’ll be hidden – camouflaged. But it’ll be there.MoreLess
He turned to Mako. ‘Colonel, can you see anything moving out on the water, just beyond the edge of the vegetation?’ Mako eased into a better position, swivelled his alien, almost insect-like head, and focused the night-vision goggles on the outer edge of the mangroves.
‘Nothing,’ he rumbled.
Richard hissed with frustration, looking back into the vast blackness of the jungle behind him. You could hide an army in there, if you could avoid the night-vision goggles, he t...hought bitterly. Ngoboi had come ashore. And there was only one likely target important enough to tempt the angry god. ‘Colonel,’ he grated, handing back the camera stick and the handset, ‘we’ve got to get back to the orphanage as quickly as we can.’ He paused, his mind whirling. ‘Except for one patrol. Leave a patrol here to search along the bankside. There’s a way down to the river through the mangroves and the undergrowth. It’ll be hidden – camouflaged. But it’ll be there.MoreLess
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