Devourers (Dusties Series Book 2) by Brett Murrell

Devourers (Dusties Series Book 2) by Brett Murrell

Author:Brett Murrell [Murrell, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldspanner
Published: 2017-02-07T22:00:00+00:00


— 24 days later

__________

Pashen’s secret journal, Day 338

I can write again. My nightmare is over. The nightmares are not.

Hope urged me to write down my experience, but to emphasize my “victories.” She called me a hero. She believes such words are good medicine, I am sure, but they do not ring true. I am met with suspicion now, and when not suspicion, pity. No matter what I have done or will do, I am forever the traitor who shouted his subservience to the enemy.

My body has gone weak. I need to exercise.

The spawnlord placed a small part of itself in me, in my sinus. It could see through my eyes, hear, even touch. I could not disobey without pain and the threat of death, and I gave in. It knew if I tried to write secretly, or mouth words, or even gesture with my eyes meaningfully, the thing would kill me. It forced me to spy.

But, I remembered a special code. It uses a finger to make tap or slide motions. It came naturally to me—I must have used it in my unremembered past. The thing inside me did not recognize it as communication. I had no illusion that anyone here would recognize it, but I could think of nothing else.

To my surprise, Ed noticed my tapping quickly. I have never felt such relief in my life as when Ed repeated “cantaloupe” back to me. Not only did he notice it, but he could read my tapping as fast as I could drive my finger. He said he knew the code so well he could “tap out Hamlet backward while the Venus de Milo sat on my lap and took a turn at Postman.” He couldn’t tell me who exactly Hamlet and Milo and the others were, but he said it sounded impressive all the same.

Once we could communicate secretly, Rodrigo devised a plan to steal not just a key from the body of the golem below, but to recover the entire golem. Ed built a fake doomsday bomb in front of my eyes, but in the end we lowered nothing more than an empty box full of strong men. The spawn hid from an explosion that never came, and we simply dropped in and took our prize.

Rodrigo has praised me for my “courage” and “wits,” but I can tell that he neither respects nor trusts me.

I agree with his sentiments.

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