Lord of the Flies Audiobook - Chapter 6 - Beast from Air

chapter six beast from Air there was no light left save that of the stars when they had understood what made this ghostly noise and pers ofal was quiet again Ralph and Simon picked him up unhandy and carried him to a shelter piggy hung about near for all his Brave words and the three bigger boys went

together to the next shelter they lay restlessly and noisily among the dry leaves watching the patch of stars that was the opening toward the Lagoon sometimes a little and cried out from the other shelters and once a big and spoke in the dark then they too fell asleep a sliver of moon Rose Over the

Horizon hardly large enough to make a path of light even when it sat right down on the water but there were other lights in the sky that moved fast winked or went out though not even a faint popping came down from the battle fought at 10 Mi height but a sign came down

from the world of grown-ups though at the time there was no child awake to read it there was a sudden bright explosion and cork screw Trail across the sky then Darkness again and stars there was a speck above the island a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute a figure that hung with dangling limbs The Changing Winds of

various altitudes took the figure where they would then 3 miles up the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve around the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the Lagoon toward the mountain the figure fell and crumpled among the blue flowers of the mountain side but now there was a

gentle breeze at this height too and the parachute flopped and banged and pulled so the figure with feet that dragged behind it slid up the mountain yard by yard puff by Puff the Breeze hauled the figure through the blue flowers over the boulders and red stones till it lay huddled among the shattered rocks of the