Claws of Rage by Anna Starobinets
Author:Anna Starobinets [Starobinets, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486829524
Goodreads: 42478805
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2019-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
Chief Badger finished reading and looked around. Everyone was silent with the exception of the ants, who persistently continued their endless roll call.
Arcticâs swollen eyes were staring in horror at the piece of string still tied to his tail. The dogs all had their ears flattened against their heads. Badgercat stood frozen, his eyes wide, his back arched, and his claws out. He looked like a sculpture that belonged at the exhibit. Vulture, Hawk, and Starling had puffed up their feathers and looked like three feathered ballsâbig, medium, and tiny. Badger suddenly had a thought that if you were to put Hawk on Vulture and then Starling on Hawk, youâd get a sort of feathered snowman with three beaks. He shook his head, willing the strange image out of his mind.
âOutrageous!â Hawk was first to come out of shock. âWhile some animals work to save lives, others are wreaking beastly havoc!â
âMarquise is in the paws of kidnappers,â whispered Badgercat.
âYes, this is serious,â said Badger. âBut theyâre willing to communicate. Thatâs a good sign.â
âWhatâs good about it?â Badgercat wailed desperately.
âTheyâre playing with the police, which means they risk making a mistake and revealing themselves.â
âSo what are we going to do? Sit around and wait until they make a mistake?â Badgercat felt himself start to shed from the stress.
âNo, not sit around. Letâs get to work,â said Badger. âOfficer Starling, letâs go over the list of animals who fled the opening after the fireflies burst.â
âList of animals who fled,â said Starling in Moleâs voice. âArctic Fox. Porcupine. Anteater. Fox. Skunk.â
âFive animals?â clarified Chief Badger.
âFive animals,â confirmed Starling.
âWell, we know Arctic is innocent.â
âBut the rest are guilty!â yelped Badgercat. âPorcupine, Anteater, Fox, and Skunkâtheyâre the organization the Claws of Rage!â
âSon, do know how absurd that sounds? The simple, nonpedigreed, flea-infested Porcupine, Anteater, Fox, and Skunk banded up to seek vengeance on the Far Woods and Huntington Farm for their unfair lives?â
âMakes sense to me,â insisted Badgercat. âSkunk is upset because the residents of the Far Woods donât understand his art. Porcupine is a nutcase whoâll pick up whatever is lying around. Just look, he dragged a whole anthill out of the woods. I donât know anything about Anteater but he looked suspicious. And Fox . . . Fox . . .â
âDonât bother, Son. Fox has an alibi. I already checked. She left the opening yesterday because she was rushing to make her appointment at the warblershop. But she never got to see him, since you, Badgercat, summoned him to the opening and seized him. Warbler rescheduled her appointment for today. Sheâs been at the warblershop all day because she has very thick fur. So at the time of Marquiseâs kidnapping, Fox was with Warbler. In any case, I find it hard to imagine why Fox would want to kidnap a cat.â
âFine, Fox is out. Then the captors are Anteater, Porcupine, and Skunk.â
âYou see, Badgercat, Skunk has an alibi too.â
âHe does?â
âLast night, the bursting fireflies startled him into unplanned performances every few feet as he ran home.
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