Death Unleashed by TJ Adams

Author:TJ Adams [Adams, TJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

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As you would expect in a medieval castle, I found a flaming torch, which hung in elaborate metal brackets. A good thing too, because I faced a stairwell, winding down into darkness. Every instinct in my gut said do not go down, so I placed a foot on the first step and began my descent; I was here to make amends and destroy the demons in my head, not hide like a coward.

The stairs were long and steep. Heading to hell cropped into my mind, although I should be feeling a little hot about now. I touched the stone wall to use as a guide, but recoiled my hand upon feeling a wet sticky substance. With my hand held up to the flame, I was relieved to see the color a muddy brown and not red, as in blood red.

Okay, no hands on walls.

For some strange reason⸺although perhaps not so strange because Bounty regularly came into my head⸺I thought of Bounty. She was likely at Hot Swirls serving a double scoop of ice cream to a kid with saucer eyes. What would she think of where I found myself now? What would she think of me if she knew the truth? Thank god she was safe on the other side of the divide. The void was not the place for her.

I continued my descent, following the taps of my shoes on the damp stone, the sound rhythmic and soothing. I focused on my movement, the noise, and not on my wild thoughts, which conjured terrible scenarios. The beast in my visions loomed large in most of them. Thanks to Claude I was likely to be haunted by the furless creature until the day I faced it. Stupid, because I was convinced there were worst things in my new world to contend with.

While mulling over that truth I reached the end of my descent and found myself in a corridor, no more welcoming than the place I first landed when I crossed into the void. A constant drip of moisture from the walls became the beat that started me walking. The choice of direction was easy; I wasn’t about to retreat the way I’d come.

The flickering flame danced shapes across the jutting rock face and along the ceiling. I craned my neck to look up at the deep gouges disappearing into spaces obscured from the flame light, the perfect place for dangerous creatures to hide. No sooner was the thought out, my mind flicked through my limited repertoire of evil creatures, stored from fairy tales and horror stories I read as a child. Blood sucking bats was the worst my mind could come up with on short notice, which was laughable considering the supernatural had no limits.

Now the idea was there, I couldn’t stop flicking a look to the ceiling just in case something dropped out of the upside down crevices. This was not the smooth tube of an old lava flow or a man-made tunnel cut with machinery. This place looked made from violence.

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