And They Called Her Spider by Michael Coorlim

Author:Michael Coorlim [Coorlim, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Mystery
Publisher: Pomoconsumption Press
Published: 2011-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

A streak of red and black fell from the bell tower above before I could climb into the room, breaking my grip on the ladder and sending me crashing down to the chapel below. Sharp knees dug into my abdomen as a rain of powerful fists fell upon my brow, each blow knocking my skull back against the chapel's wooden floor. I managed to get a forearm up to guard my face in time to see a girl--- the Spider, a slight thing dressed in a red and black Jester's motley--- spring back from her kneeling position atop my torso. My face felt raw and numb from her vicious attack, and my lower back screamed as I scrambled back into a half-standing crouch.

The girl's leap away took her towards the wall beyond the ladder. Her legs folded again as she hit the wall, whatever purchase she managed there sufficing to spring off and away at an angle that carried her past the shocked Bartleby and towards the narrow window. It was thin-- too thin for even the slender girl that had attacked me-- but somehow she slipped through it effortlessly, and was gone into the night.

Bartleby ran up to me. "Oh god, James, are you alright?"

"Don't worry about me, go after her!" The fingers I put to my face came away red and sticky. She'd split my lip at the very least, and it felt as though one of my eyes was swelling shut. Thankfully all my teeth were in place, and it didn't feel like my skull had been cracked.

Self inventory complete, I ran after Bartleby.

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