Chapter 1! Tell me what you think!
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Chapter 1.
Laurence Yoso was pacing his expansive office while his two colleges sat in the armchairs.
"How many elephants?" Laurence asked for the third time with in the last hour since the meeting commenced. Laurence was a man of an average build, clean shaven and sharp features, like a hawk, with slicked back black hair. He was a considerably wealthy man, and greedy. Very greedy.
"More then can fit in this house." One of the other men, Seth said, a rather large man with an ego to boot, expanding his arms to show the length. That was impressive; after all, Laurence did have the biggest mansion in England. Unfortunately it wasn't earned rightfully. Laurence and his men poached for their money then sold their findings on the black market for large sums of money.
"That's a lot of ivory…" Laurence said longingly.
"Yep it be sir." His other partner said with a nod. Kenny was a short man with a balding head of brown hair in desperate need of a tooth brush and an elliptical machine. He had a large scar running down his face from a run in with a…well he never really told anyone; he keeps changing the story, from a jaguar the size of a truck to a bear. He kept clasping and unclasping his large switch blade as he spoke.
After a minute of consideration, Laurence nodded, liking the idea more and more. "Alright." He said with a nod. "We'll be swimming in ivory."
The other two nodded eagerly.
"What about that brat o'yers?" Kenny asked bitterly.
"My nephew?" Laurence said, as if the thought just accrued to him. "Ah yes, well we can't very well leave him here can we?" he said, his obvious distaste for his nephew showing in his voice. The kid was the only thing standing in the way of an even larger sum of money. The boy's father and mother were very rich, even richer then Laurence himself. Which didn't make Laurence very happy.
"Ah, twelve's old enough." Seth said. Laurence shook his head.
"No, we don't want Adam messing anything up here. Too much at stake, by the time we get back the whole place could be burnt to the ground." He said, "We've got to take the twit with us." He sighed.
"But the tree huggin' little brat'll mess that up even more!" Kenny practically shouted.
"SSHHH!" Both Laurence and Seth said hastily, "Do you want him to hear us?" Seth hissed.
"He doesn't actually know we're poachers, he thinks were biologists," Laurence hissed as well, then stood up and straightened his bowtie. "And that's exactly what we'll keep him believing. So act like it." He growled dangerously.
Kenny wiped his nose on his sleeve. "Yeah yeah." He muttered.
"Maybe he'll have a little 'mishap' during our track through the jungle." Seth sneered with a nasty grin. "Fall off the boat in the river or something."
The other two grinned.
"Possibly." Laurence grinned, clapping his colleague on the shoulder. "So it's settled. We journey to Africa by boat in the morning, taking the kid with us, and he'll have a tragic accident and go missing." He said with an sinister smile, shaking both of their hands.
"Back you're bags gents." Laurence grinned. "We're going to Africa."
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Whoo, sorry it's a little slow, just setting the wheels in motion. Flames will be ignored, but critics are welcome and helpful. As are reviews!
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