[Land of Nod 02] • Land of Nod, the Prophet by Hoover Gary

Author:Hoover, Gary [Hoover, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Childrens
ISBN: 9780615668628
Goodreads: 14622482
Publisher: AMH Press
Published: 2012-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 39:

Artimus scanned the room.

Nothing unusual.

He was alone. Codi hadn’t snuck in that time. There were no pets in the house.

Rodents? Unlikely.

He picked up a lamp, looked at the clean circle on the otherwise dusty table then wondered why he even did that.

He walked across the room looking this way and that as he went.

No air circulating; nothing to blow anything over.

He checked the window, and it was secure.

He turned around and scanned the room from that side. He tried to remember the sound. It was like a dull scraping sound, like a piece of wood sliding a short distance on a bare floor.

There was nothing on the floor but a few pieces of dirty laundry. He got down on his hands and knees and looked under the bed.

Oooooohhhh. Yeah, I should just never look under there again. Maybe I can talk Nahima into cleaning under there when she gets back.

He stood and scratched the back of his head.

Letting my imagination get the best of me. It was probably nothing. But I could swear I heard... something. But did I want to hear something? Am I just fooling myself?

He rubbed his forehead and tried to clear his mind.

This is silly.

He was on his way back out when he noticed it.

He had not disturbed Nafeesa’s things since her death. When others asked or he thought about it himself, he blamed it on laziness, but deep down, he knew that he just couldn’t deal with going through her things and disposing of them. Besides, they weren’t taking much space or bothering anyone.

However, he now saw that the bottom drawer in her dresser was open six or seven inches.

That’s never been open before. Has it? Surely I would have noticed at some point if that drawer had been open all this time.

He approached it, slowly, as if he were afraid something might jump out at him. When he was within five feet, he stopped and tried to determine if he could see anything from there. He tilted his body and looked from different angles without moving his feet from where he had them planted.

Idiot. What am I afraid of?

He stepped closer to the drawer and knelt beside it. He still moved tentatively and didn’t touch anything. He moved his body and head so he could see it from nearly every angle. There were neatly folded socks and not much else.

He reached for the drawer and slowly pulled it out until it was as far out as it would go.

He tentatively poked and prodded the socks looking for anything out of place.

Am I just going crazy? What am I even thinking I might find? The secret to peace in a sock drawer?

He laughed lightly to himself and began to stand up. Wait, what’s that? He noticed the corner of a slip of paper protruding from beneath one of the socks. He pulled it out and examined it.

A receipt?

As he read it, he became more puzzled.

208.45 MMUs to Shaw’s. There was a numeric code, but no specific listing of what product or service had been billed.

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