E-peshawari
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 7
"What do you suppose happened?" I asked.
"Storm," said Josie, "Or earthquake."
At my look, she said, "There's the volcano."
I turned to look at it.
"It's active," she said.
"And?"
"It wasn't," she said.
"How do you know?"
"Nobody reported it."
"How do you know?"
"Activity in the islands gets reported."
"Oh," I said, then, "To who?"
"People who're interested in that sort of thing."
"Who?"
"Sailors, importers, merchants, the Guard ... schools," she said. "The last time an island went active there was a wave ... several ... on the mainland."
"When?"
"Couple of hundred years ... I think," Josie said. "Lookit ... I'm just a kid ... I managed eight years of schooling. I can read, write, figure and count back change. History? Not so much. Couple hundred years? Who cares? Pretty girls don't need that."
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