Under the Mountain Page #2

thanks to you.

What do you want?

Come on.

What is it that you want, boy?

That's you, right?

-No, you're mistaken.

-You're the fire-raiser.

No, my name is Jones.

But they call you that.

The Wilberforces.

I don't know anyone of that name.

And I don't know you.

Wait! They said

they'd kill us.

Me and my sister.

You're twins.

Yeah.

And they've seen you,

these Wilberforces?

They could smell us.

What is it?

Where is your sister now?

Our Aunt and Uncle's place.

The lake.

She's alone?

At Lake Pupuke?

Hey, get out of my car, old man!

It's okay, he's with me.

Well, he's not with me.

-Do as you're told, son. Drive.

-We have to go home.

Half an hour ago, all you wanted

to do was get out of there.

-Who the hell are you?

-Now, Ricky!

Ricky?

Ricky?

Aunty Kay?

Theo?

Who is it?

Police.

Open the door. Please.

Message for the twins.

Been an accident.

What?

It's mother...

Been hurt.

But that's... not possible.

Open the door.

Why are you doing

this to me?

Open the door.

Leave me alone!

Open...

the door!

What, what is it?

Help me!

Help me!

Lovely day.

Bloody foreigners.

Rach?

Rachel?

Theo!

Rachel, what happened?

-Rachel, are you okay?

-We have to get her inside.

-I'll call an ambulance.

-No. No ambulance.

Are you, are you a doctor now?

Quiet please.

Theo, This is crazy.

Or maybe I'm crazy.

Rest now

For now, they

think she's dead.

It will buy us some time.

We must leave.

Ricky, can you

drive us somewhere?

No.

I know another way.

A way we won't be seen.

Help me get her up.

Over here. Now, put this on.

What the hell?

-Now you, Theo.

-Theo.

Some dodgy old man...

no offence...

wants to have a group hug and

I'm supposed to be, like...

Cover for us, okay?

Hold on to me as

tight as you can...

And whatever you do,

do not let go.

I am in charge.

No one is going anywhere.

How did you do that?

How did you do that?

Inside. Inside.

Now listen.

And listen very carefully.

I was not always what you see.

You're right, Theo.

I am the fire-raiser.

And I am not of this world.

Just as they are

not of this world.

They can take human form,

but human they are not.

What are they?

The ones you call the Wilberforces

were a predatory species.

Merciless, cunning, greedy.

Their hunger for power was great.

All they lacked was the

strength to conquer...

until they met

the gargantua.

Gargantua?

The gargantua are immense beings...

with the power to lay

waste to entire worlds.

The Wilberforces tamed them and

together they were unstoppable.

They learned to

travel through space...

To make whole worlds their own.

And they did it again and again.

-To your world?

-Yes. It was a catastrophe.

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