Demoness by Harry Nix

Author:Harry Nix [Nix, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galactic Royale
Published: 2020-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

14

Industrial and medical. It was back again, that scent of disinfectants and grease. The floors were stone, highly polished and I couldn’t help but be reminded of Deep Dive where my body was locked in a pod.

Maybe it was intentional—Lucy drawing on my memories, incorporating them into her stories.

The temperature dropped as we made our way down a corridor that was longer than first assumed. It had a slow curve to it and in the gloom felt like it would go on forever. All I could hear was our breathing and the spiders, their feet clacking. I was walking slightly ahead of them, and yeah, about thirty percent of my unease was having these giant spiders scurrying so close behind.

I couldn’t help but to think of the beehive idea—once you were inside you could do whatever you wanted and wouldn’t be challenged. This was a little different of course—this beehive appeared empty. After slaughtering October and his men, I was expecting to come up against more enemies soon enough. Like a campaign, new room, new enemies, or at least every second room.

But this... silence... it was sinking in the heart of me. This was like a prison that was so hard to escape that no guards were even posted. The distant unseen spiders crying out were helpless and pitiful. The cold air itself seemed to rob all hope, and the slight occasional glimmering light made me think of Gollum, deep underground, forgetting the warm light of day.

Gloom

The ones who died are considered fortunate. The ones who still live fear they will be trapped forever. Much evil brews here. It is seeping into you and having unknown effects...

“Great,” I muttered under my breath as the status message flashed by on my HUD. Like when I’d been killed by the Orc in the forest, I now had a status effect. However this one had no timer counting down until it was gone.

The morose text was right though—this place was affecting me. I couldn’t help imagining being a spider, strapped to a cart, wheeled down here. It was like the freezing chill of an operating room, except whomever was behind all this wasn’t there to help.

This was about power and control.

Isabel moved under one of the lights ahead, enough to give us fair warning she was there but even still, the spiders hissed at the sudden sight of her. I clenched my hand on my staff, feeling the urge to cast Bolt and barely holding it back. Perhaps the only reason I didn’t cast it was the oppressive atmosphere sucking away at me.

“There are two guards, but the doors are very wide. I need someone to come with me,” she said.

“I would do it but I suspect my feet are making too much noise,” Ebony said, tapping one on the stone floor.

“I can do it. I have the Echo Knife,” Scarlet said.

In the darkness, I swear her red skin had a faint luminescence to it, as though she was lit up from within. She held the knife in her hand, the blade reflecting slightly, giving it a murky appearance.

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