Book of Seth: Entombed: A Fallen Chronicles Book by O'Brien Dan

Author:O'Brien, Dan [O'Brien, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

I CRAWLED for what seemed like hours. My legs ached and a musty odor infected every corner of the ducts, infiltrating and assaulting my senses. I couldn’t hear the progression of the Umordoc. They seemed to have an understanding of the structure that we did not and there was no doubt in my mind that they would pick up the trail again.

Fredrick bumbled behind me. His ragged breathing and constant muttering tested my patience.

We crested a small incline and I stopped. We had reached an intersection.

I closed my eyes, trying to recall the duct mapping the computer had provided.

“Seth, what’s the matter? Don’t you know where we are going?” Fredrick had hardly spoken a word since we had entered the ducts.

“I am trying to remember. The plans were quite lengthy and in the heightened situation we found ourselves, I am afraid I am having trouble remembering. Although, if you were to shut up and keep your thoughts to yourself as you have been doing, then I imagine it would go considerably smoother.”

He shrunk back from my outburst.

His face was only partially visible in the emerald hue. The longer we were here, the thinner it seemed he had become. Soon, he would be nothing more than a skeleton.

I moved forward again, ignoring Fredrick and blindly finding my way in the dwindling light. The schematic showed the eastern path climbing and then leveling out with the original docking chamber. This tunnel was wider than the others. The stale odor of the dead air had been replaced by something much fresher.

“Seth?”

“What now, Fredrick?” I responded angrily.

“They aren’t going to allow me to return, are they?”

“Who?”

“The warlocks and Higald: they want me dead. They don’t want me back there,” he replied slowly, sorrow bleeding through into his voice.

“Does that really matter right now?” I replied with a knowing sigh.

“It does to me.”

“They….” I started, but was unable to finish.

“You’re a good man, Seth. Your father would be proud of you.”

I turned to say something, but Fredrick had already bowed his head. He lowered his chin almost to his chest as he crawled forward, death hanging over his head as he marched into the unknown. My mind was a canvas of emotions and thoughts. If the Umordoc found us here, then it was likely they had found the Fallen. There was indeed a demi in our midst and it could be Summer. It angered me that it could be Summer. I had my doubts; and if they proved true, then I had endangered everyone by not pursuing an investigation.

“Was Summer the demi?” I queried angrily.

He didn’t respond.

“Well? Why the apprehension?”

“I’ve no idea, Seth. I just felt that something was wrong.”

“No mind games, Fredrick. There is a profound chance that the Fallen are already under attack.”

“I know this,” began Fredrick, his voice calm. “I told you they would come. There’s another demi in the village. I don’t know what Summer is, but she’s not human.”

“Not human, but not a demi?” I mused.

“I believe the one responsible for the attack on the Fallen is someone that evaded all of us.

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