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Eid- thanks you saved me from the company of those savage
women, you are very kind.
Garth- nobody will push you around as long as you are with
me..
But eid! You will also not order around any body! Come let
us sit together and make some further plans.[y-272]
Garth- ‘this area has six quarks ,so till they pick you up
back to your time ,either we stay in hiding to save ourselves from them or else we look for these quarks and kill
them!
Eid-that would be suicidal, hiding will be better!
Guy- stay hiding out of fear for them will be cowardly, we
will hunt them!
Garth-me too! Eid we are in majority of two![y-273]
Ut[to garth]-you accompany us to our camp which is safe from
quarks.
Garth-safe?
Ut- almost safe.
After one hour-‘this is the camp’ ut says pointing towards a
triangular land mass on high ground with it’s promontory towards the river
edge..
Eid- but how can this be safe, on the other hand if quarks
come we will be trapped here![y-274]
Ut, garth and group of friends reach the edge of the atoll –ut
explains showing several ropes hung from atop the knoll hanging down towards
the river-if quarks come we will climb down these ropes and cross the river on
boat.
Garth- ut1this is a safe bait!
Ut- ‘almost’
But one quark also swims in river water, once four of our
men was eaten by the quark while crossing the river , only women could
survive![y-275]
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Later in the camp Garth is squatting on the ground
fashioning some crude tools watched over by eid and guy!---
Garth-firstoff we should get rid of this swimmer quark!
Guy- right! But how? Bullets don’t stop them!
Eid – but why are you wasting your bullets on him?
Garth – no eid I am setting a trap for him!
After we make all preparations we will go for quark
hunting![y-276]
In the evening- ut approaches garth who is busy making a
crude explosive device-
‘we will keep watch for the quark at nigt’
Garth- very good ut we will also participate in keeping
watch!
Guy- Garth I will do double shift on guard duty so can stay
with eid ,I cannot leave her alone!
Eid-GUY!
Guy- eid I will not allow you to do as you wish!
Eid- I am not refusing, just wanted to thank you!
Garth [overhearing the raises eye brows in mock surprise]-! Something
is changing between them![y-277]
Morning- Garth shakes up eid- wake up! We go hunting the
swimmer quark!
Later eid questions garth – you were saying something about
going fishing Garth?
Garth- I have made a crude bomb fro the black charcoal
powder, and have an oily fuse!
We fit this in to the abdomen of a dead animal, and this
will be our bet!
Guy- second bait! Garth will be the first bait!y-278]
Ut and his men seek out the river quark
Garth – oh! So he is upstream we should set out now!
Garth- you and eid occupy your posts , you know your part?
Guy- you don’t worry!
Eid- garth,thanks for all this
Garth- don’t say that this is not goodbye meeting, I will
come back yety279]
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Garth baits sleeping quark from a small canoe- come on wake
up , you flu producing brute microbe!
Garth paddles away and escapes quickly in his canoe as the
giant quark awakens and opens his huge jaws—“ it is enlarged zillionth times its
original size, here penicillin is not going to help kill this .[y280]
Garth reaches the fast flowing rapids with swimmer quark in
hot pursuit!eid and guy are waiting for garth purched on the limb of a tree
over hanging th rapids
Guy- garth has arrived eid prepare the fuse!
Eid- right!
Huge brute microbe follows swimming through the
rapids.[y281]
Garth positions his canoe underneath the large overhanging
branch of the tree on which are perched eid and guy with the carcass of a dead
animal with it’s leg tied to a rope with guy hanging on to it with one arm and
other arm tightly grasping the tree branch-
Garth –‘hold on tightly to that branch guy!’
Eid- guy let go of the rope quark is catching the bait!
Meanwhile Garth is thrown off the canoe as its bottom is
struck by a rock submerged in river water.[y-282]
While guy is busy feeding the quark carcass of a dead animal
containing the lethal improvised explosive device eid warns him-‘ guy look!
Garth boat has overturned.’
Quark wallows the bait of dead animal with the bomb sewed
inside it’s belly and turns to follow Garth who is wondering if the fuse would
have been extinguished as there was plenty of air inside not to let it be extinguished.[y-282]
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Garth climbs atop the submerged rock as the quark charges towards him-
Eid- guy he is trapped!
Guy jumps down into the river holding along knife-‘ I should
help him’!
Eid- no!there is no
hope!
Garth makes a huge leap and jumps over the top of quark’s
huge gaping mouth![y-284]
But falls right back in to the water as he is shaken off by
the huge shaking body of the beast.
Garth shouts at guy who is busy shoving the upturned wooden
canoe in to the huge jaws of the monster quark –g-guy!come back!
Guy who watches the wooden canoe splintered between huge
jaws of the quark- we can argue later, first we have to keep him distracted
till the time the bomb explodes
Guy shoves the boat inside quark’s mouth to buy time for him
to swim away to safety. [Y-285]
Garth- guy! Swim quickly!
Guy- why has the bomb inside the quark not gone off?
Just then there is a deafening explosion inside the huge
body of the quark!
And in a minute quark turns back to the size of of a minute
dirt particle dead microbe!
Guy- this worked like magic!
Garth – yes! And thanks to you for being a part of the magic
trick! [Y-286]
Guy-- and a second quark bite the dust!
Garth-that animal would have devoured me had you not
intervened!
Garth and guy return as a furious eid turns on ‘guy- off!
You fool I am so angry with you!
At the same time I am so proud of you also!’[Y-287]
