All Hollow by Simeon Courtie & Hal Stewart

Author:Simeon Courtie & Hal Stewart [Courtie, Simeon & Stewart, Hal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780957198029
Publisher: Simantics
Published: 2019-10-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

A world away, a mile through rock and down the hill, in the Luna Rossa bar Krishna was incredulous. ‘You’re having a laugh, right? It can’t be that bad. Scary stories to keep the kids away, I reckon.’

Behind the bar Fraser shook his head. Krishna wasn’t buying their sinister stories of dangers in the dark within the labyrinthine rock. ‘Well,’ droned the barman, ‘maybe it’s not that bad. You do hear tales, o’ course. Drug dealers, smugglers, but …’ he pointed to the nicotine-coated monkeys, sticky with grime, on the shelf. ‘I wouldn’t know, now, would I?’

Krishna sensed he was playing it down, but the thought of his friends scouting around in the gloom up there unsettled him. ‘I feel a bit bad for Petra. I mean, she had nothing to do with it. Got talked into it, know what I mean?’

‘How so?’

‘Just, it was bloody Dane who caused Mary to drop Carly’s stupid ring in the first place, shoving me into the monkeys.’

‘Oh, right,’ nodded Fraser. ‘So you startled a rock ape?’

‘Not me! Well, yes, me, but …’ he shook his head. ‘I’m sure it won’t take long to find,’ he said, trying to convince himself. ‘I mean, they know where Mary dropped it.’

‘Aye,’ agreed Fraser. ‘You wait, they’ll be walking though that door any minute, diamond on her finger, drinks all round. No need for you to worry.’

‘The monkeys alone are enough to stop me going back,’ he muttered. ‘Ahh, they’ll be fine,’ he decided, and took a swig of his pint.

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