Children Of Fiends - Part 4 The Dark Heart: An Of Sudden Origin Novella by Harwood C. Chase

Author:Harwood, C. Chase [Harwood, C. Chase]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Fate & Fortune Press
Published: 2014-05-20T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Captive

The boy watched the religious men being escorted toward the village. He immediately recognized their clerical collars. A team of two Chosen walked ahead of the men who followed obediently, almost serenely. Even the fat one seemed to step as though he was walking on air. The boy felt the mental anesthetic that was being applied to the men as the escort’s thoughts brushed past and mixed with the version being applied to him and the others who worked in the fields. Something deep and warm filled his mind. It had an almost physical presence: a warmth that then spread through his whole body. He was aware of the other workers around him as they all came to a stop and watched the pastors walk by. Tears welled up in the boy’s eyes as a feeling of something much greater then himself or even this whole horrid world seemed to fill him. He suddenly experienced a never-ending blackness that was conversely filled with light. He and the others around him fell to the ground as their sense of place and physical orientation simply vanished. A feeling of wholeness filled him beyond any notion of anything he had ever felt. His weight seemed to diminish to that of a feather. Just as quickly it was gone and the heft of his physical self felt greater than his muscles could ever possibly hope to move and the weight of his tears seemed to carve tracks through his face as he found himself on the ground again in the steamy corn field. He desperately wanted to go back, to be in that place, to be done with this terrible existence. Countless times, over what seemed like countless days, he had regretted ever leaving home. Regretted crossing the Terminus and swimming that frigid river. As he lay in the dirt, his vision slowly came back into focus. Inches from his eyes, two armies of ants fought over the writhing twisting body of a fat blue and green caterpillar. As the armored insects robotically waged war for the prize, the bodiless heads of several others tenaciously clung to their enemy’s legs with unyielding pincers. From his peripheral vision he saw a big hairy male Chosen step past and step over one of the other field hands. The Chosen looked down at the prone woman. Like the boy’s, her eyes were only just refocusing. The Chosen licked the sharp angles between his teeth and the woman moaned out a “No. Please, no.” The sharp-eared naked creature reached out with his long fingers and plucked her up from the ground like she was an old withered cat. He dragged her off toward the other two Chosen overseers, who continued to sit under the shade smiling, their eyes wet with anticipation. The woman found the strength of her voice and screamed for mercy as she was heaved up and slammed down onto a table. The scream was cut off with a yip as the big hairy one snapped her neck with no more regard than as if he was killing a chicken.

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