Dragon Web Online: Dominion: A LitRPG Adventure Series (Electric Shadows Book 2) by S R Witt

Author:S R Witt [Witt, S R]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pitchfork Publishing
Published: 2017-05-24T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Indira and I parted ways not long after she tricked me into the Life Oath. We made a valiant effort to try figuring out the map, but after her subterfuge, we both felt awkward and made our excuses to call it quits. She offered me another sheet of paper to keep the map from smudging, and I rolled them together and tucked them away into my inventory.

I was glad we weren’t fighting anymore, but this shift in the dynamics of our relationship was troubling. I had no idea how, or even if, I was going to let Bastion in on what happened.

Not only did I feel like a chump for letting a magus pull a fast one on me, but I’d given Indira the right to choose the best treasure to keep for herself.

I’m an idiot.

Indira logged out, and I followed her lead. Spending so much time in-Game left me feeling strung out and confused. I scrubbed my neck clean, checked on my mother, and made myself a peanut-butter-and-cheese sandwich to pass the time while I waited for Karl to rejoin the land of the living.

I hoped he’d have some good news. Maybe he and Mercy had figured out where to get a map that made more sense than the scrawled mess I’d hacked together.

The sandwich was as gross as ever, but it filled my belly. With mealtime over, I checked on my mom again. The machine chugged along with quiet efficiency, and the status lights on the tablet above her headboard glowed a reassuring green. The new meds would keep her out cold until her body adjusted to them. Her body and mind needed rest from their struggles to survive.

I hated to admit it, but mom’s time was running out. Unless there was some breakthrough in treatment, or we came up with a lot more money to upgrade her support system, we were losing her.

The chair next to her bed looked so inviting I couldn’t help but curl up in it. I couldn’t tell Karl how I really felt, couldn’t bring myself to confess how confused and afraid I was, how much the game was changing me, changing us. The only person I could talk to, whether she could hear me or not, was my mother.

“I’m so tired, mom.” It was a weak and stupid thing to say to someone fighting for her life every minute of every day. What did I know about tired?

But it wasn’t any less true for me than it was for her. I was burning out. When I wasn’t scrambling for money in-Game, I was trying to stay alive. Sure, it was a game, but the stakes were very real for Karl and me. Killing our characters would kill our livelihoods, and that would kill our mom. The stress of survival wore on me in-Game and back in the World.

In a way, I was glad the Hoaldites were pissed at me. The fact that they knew I’d stolen from them gave me a reason to avoid the temple.

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