The Pulse of Kato Whip: 13
Excerpt:
“Watch it your horse don’t step in my hole,” the man said, adjusting his slipshod hat.
Kato saw a tiny pole in front of the man. A line trailed from its tip to a bobber centered in a hole in the ice.
“There’s a woman down there!” Kato gasped. “She’ll drown — or freeze to death!”
“A fish is all it is,” the man said, glancing up at him.
Kato gawked at the face now visible under the brim of his slipshod hat. “Lord Kran? Is it you?”
“An easy mistake to make,” the man said. “Actually, I’m his twin brother.”
“Twin bro–?” Kato looked more closely. “The spitting image!”
“He didn’t mention me, did he. Never does. Anyway, I’m the one without the hat. That’s how to tell us apart.”
“But you’re wearing a hat,” Kato cautiously pointed out.
The man felt atop his head. “So I am.” He removed it. “There, sorry to confuse you more. The name’s Bill. And I’m not much with words, not like my brother. Fishing’s about all I do, and not very well. In fact, I’m about as close to a nobody as you’ll ever meet.”
“You shouldn’t berate yourself–” Kato began to say. But the figure beneath the ice again caught his attention. “That has to be a woman! It doesn’t look anything like a fish. She’ll drown!”
“Just a fish,” Bill assured him. “A Whadayawant, we call it. It mimics our deepest desires, for whatever reasons.”
The adventure continues…
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