Blood & Baltazar by Liam Inscoe-Jones

Author:Liam Inscoe-Jones [Inscoe-Jones, Liam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

A Return to Normality

L ylith White sloped back on the sofa, an old cup of tea growing stale in her hands. She placed it on the carpet beside her and sighed, leafing through the pages of a book she had no interest in. Infact it occurred to her she didn’t even know what it was about and so she turned back to the front cover and read the title with moderate interest. Social Interaction in the Workplace. Great.

She’d spent the whole evening wandering through the same tedious circle, making herself endless cups of tea and then sitting on the sofa, letting the steam soak her skin until the flow ran out and the drink turned cold. She’d decided to try a different tact - picking herself from the seat and exploring the lengths of the tower.

Lylith had found various items of interest on her travels, stumbling upon bits of Josiah’s half-hearted experiments left to bubble dry without his constant, loving maintenance. Each new floor was so packed and overflowing with varying contraptions she was faced each time with a dilemma of which to examine first, and so often stood gormlessly in the centre of the room without assimilating any great knowledge. In some cases she allowed herself to be drawn in by any strange feature a random set-up possessed, like the rancid smell that drew her to the kettle full of fish eyes, or the whirring sound emitted by the mechanical arm which even now continued to stubbornly poke a slab of rotting bread.

Still in the end she found herself sat on the same old sofa thinking about him.

She wasn’t pining anymore, the ridiculous fad had long since passed and she parked there wondering if she would remain in a strop or if she could ever lose face and admit maybe he had done a lot more for her than she cared to admit. Something told her the former would remain selfishly dominant. But most of her thoughts sat alone in the silence as the sun began to peak and brought with it her worries and fears. Her mind stressed about what would happen to Josiah on his little conquest. He knew nothing about where he was headed, and for once it seemed he couldn’t just work everything out beforehand. He might have walked in there and someone could have shot him dead.

Then there was fear at what would happen if he did wind up with a bullet in his brain. The thought of Josiah as meat on the floor of the forest churned her gut of course but she was always left with his words ringing through her head.

“The first thing they’ll do is go looking for anybody I told about them”

There was only one person who he’d told of his plans. That person was her. And from there her contemplations grew darker. What if Josiah in his final throws gave them her name, what if after their bold words on the doorstep he would be happy giving up her name to save his own skin?

She had no choice but to stay put, stay alert.

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