(eng) Paul C. Middleton - Betrayed by Faith 01 by Paladin

Author:Paladin [Paladin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

February 9th, Blue Mountains, Australia.

Following Einar's directions they went onto back roads, past smaller and smaller towns. After about half an hour Marcia loosened Griffin's tourniquets. Finally, they turned onto a dirt track that wound through the woods. Eventually it led to a dilapidated looking weather-board house with a tin roof and surprisingly small windows. The only truly odd features of the house were the skylights cut into the tin roof. You didn't expect them on a house that looked as rundown as this one was.

Einar spoke up "I suggest you let me turn off the security system while you get ready to move Griffin. I'll bring out a stretcher. Take him through to the room at the back left of the house - that's where most of the supplies we'll need are." He looked at Agatha who nodded at him. "I wouldn't want to be gutted over a misunderstanding here."

She glared at him and said "yes, go on. Marcia go with him and check that the room is clean enough for us to start getting the shrapnel out of his leg. We can't take him to a hospital and we need to reduce the risk of infection."

"Yes Ma'am" Marcia replied, unbuckling her seat belt as Joakim and Einar did. She allowed Einar to get out and head to the front door. At the door he pressed a panel and a hidden section opened out to reveal a touch pad. He punched in a fifteen number code causing it to beep, then closed the panel and unlocked the door. As it slid it across he held out his hand, stopping Marcia before she could walk straight in. With a smile he bent down and disarmed a tripwire connected to a double barreled shotgun aimed at chest height on a stand bolted to the floor. Marcia Looked at him and muttered "Paranoid much?"

"It's not paranoia in the world deep behind the 'Gilded Veil' most people can't see past. I'd have thought, working with the Paladins as you obviously do, you would realize that."

Marcia looked at him, confused. "What do you mean 'the Gilded Veil'?"

"I'll explain later, come on let's get the stretcher and get him into the medical room." he sighed.

Marcia looked around the house and did a double take. From the outside it looked like a rundown hell-hole, but the door was thicker than it looked, and the inside the walls were stone. The house was meticulously clean and was more like a fortress behind the facade.

It was going to be a long day for Einar. The first task was getting all the shrapnel they could out of Griffin. Then he had to explain to these folks what he understood to be the true nature of the world they were actually in.

They moved to the back room and he picked up the portable stretcher. He gestured to the large steel table in the middle of the room.

"That's where we'll pick the shrapnel out of him. We're gonna have to move fast, before he heals over if possible.

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