Chapter 4: The Hunting Boat
After they've watched the café burn for a while, they searched after suspicious things. Then they recognized that Sallys boat Muriel was gone. "Sallys boat is gone, they must have took it." the Hunter said. "I think I know where they are going!" Laurine exclaimed. "Where!" the Hunter asked with his hollow, hissing voice. "To the Marram Marshes, their aunt has an cottage there. Dragon Island, I think." Laurine answerd. "What are we waiting for, then? Let's do it before it's to late." one younger recruit from the hunting crew said. Laurine glared at him. "Excuse me, shouldn't the crew keep quiet? Or do you think that you've got more to say than me, DomDaniels apprentice?" she asked in a sneering tune. "No, miss. I just..." he tried, but Laurine cut him of. "Didn't I told you to be quiet? Or do I have to make you silent for good?" she hissed. "Let's go." the Hunter said to Laurine, who still glared at the young recruit. "How, then?" she asked. "By boat. A hunting canoe." the Hunter answerd. Laurine nodded her head.
"Faster! I said faster, idiots!" the Hunter shouted. They were at the hunting canoe, and Laurine watched the scene. She was mostly pleased, the hunt had keept going well and they got closer and closer the little boat which the Queeling was in. But something annoyed her, there was something magykal around her. At last she, and everyone else at the hunting boat, saw what that 'something' was. Magykal fog, thick magykal fog. "Mister..." Septimus said. "Yes!"the Hunter hissed. "I-I thinks that it's magykal fog." Septimus answerd. "Wow, how clever you are!" Laurine said ironically and roled her eyes. "Sch!" the Hunter hissed, and everything went quiet.
"Fifty-three seconds precisley!" Marcia mumbled to herself, "Not bad...". "Keep quiet, Marcia!" Silas Heap whispered somewhere near her. Marcia muttered something, but deceided that it was not the right time to fight about something like that. She heard the rythmical splashing of the hunting boats oars, and felt nerveous. "Stop!" the Hunters voice shouted throught the fog.
Laurine roled her eyes. The Hunter was even more stupid then she had thought. "Be... not... afraid! The Que... Princess has nothing to fear from us, and not the rest of you either. We only thinks about your safety, and we wants to escort you back to the Castle before you gets hurted!" the Hunter shouted. Once again Laurine roled her eyes, seriousley? Why was she surronded by idiots? Clap! Thatwas the only sound the Hunter needed to locate his next prey.