Adventure of Zuky

I was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow flashed upwards with a witch like cry and this cry was echoed by another. Though I had taken off my school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, my qrey shirt stuck to me with my hair plastered on my forehead. "Follow me", a voice said, "I got caught up" A black boy stopped and spar his arrow at me with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like a devil place. The voice spoke again "You will be used as a sacrifice at the mermaid festival" The owner of the voice came backing out of the undergrowth so that twigs scratched on a greasy wind breaker. The n***d crooks of his crooks on his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter and very fat. He came forward to me, searching out safe lodgement for his feet, and then looked up "Where are these boys" Some four boys came out from the sea, they are drenched up with water all above their body. He handed me to them "This is it where is my balances" the man said One of the boys handled a sack to him and then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. The four boys began to pick their way as casually as possible towards the water. with me walking sluggishly behind them after my hand have been bandaged. In a few seconds we were at the edge of the river, we climbed a broken trunks and was out of the jungle. They disentangle me at a place which look like a shore but was inside the water. it was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. Behind this was a palace, perhaps a mile away, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. I jumped down from the terrace when I see a woman. She has a fair hair and a tail like a fish instead of leg's and began to pick her way towards me. I got screwed up carried away in thought, the sand became soft over my black shoes and the heat hit me. one of the guards began to ripped off my clothes, kicked off my shoes fiercely in a single movement. He undid the snake clasp of my belt. lugged off my shorts and pants, and I stood there n***d, looking at the fiercely woman coming my way.