Evan's Eldritch Emporium: Book 4 by Nolan Locke

Author:Nolan Locke [Locke, Nolan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

The days were taken up with the other world, diving in and doing serious investigations of how the place worked and how I might end up satisfying the Emperor’s demands while getting his attention off Surrek for as long as necessary.

Recon day two found me back in the huge boxy ghost city, and this time I was determined to investigate the smaller buildings at the outer periphery. I was forced to use the self mark to transform into air once again, in order to penetrate the door, which refused to budge. I tried to use the shotgun on it to no avail, and then I tried breathing lightning on it, and this also failed. Frustrated, I just transformed into a cloud of mist and headed inside.

I don’t know exactly what I was expecting, but signs of life were not it. I had finally found a place that felt inhabited. Although it was not a very big place, only one story high, and two blocks by two blocks square, it was surprisingly inhabited. Or it had been until right before I showed up.

Here I finally found signs of life: one of those blocks contained two beds that had just been made sloppily, and the walls were layered with sheets of metal that were etched into hand drawn pictures. please show the family members, and it was clear they were done by an amateur with skill.

A small blocky and unadorned dresser held clothing that was mostly fashioned out of bug carapace.

One of the blocks was divided into a bathroom and a small study, as evidenced by the writing desk. The third block was a kitchen, or at least, I’m pretty sure it was a kitchen, and the last one was very clearly a living space. the cushions here we’re made of springy metal with carapace glued to the edges to keep you from slicing yourself open, and a device that must’ve been an electronic hung on the wall. This thing was sort of brassy and filigreed, but had a big blank glass screen that screamed television.

What I couldn’t find were people. With Empath’s Mark on, I could sense emotions from people, and nearby, but the ability didn’t allow me to pinpoint their locations. There weren’t many. Had they sealed themselves in the closets? Down in tunnels I couldn’t see how to enter?

The next day found more of the same. Houses, lived in, but no people. Most were identical in style and layout, though the touches that made them homes were different. I found a game board, hexagonal in shape, with holes drilled into it for the meeples, and a clever compartment in the bottom to hold the six differently-colored metal meeples. I found food in the kitchen. One of the bedrooms had been etched, all up and down the walls, from floor to ceiling, with abstract shapes in short brush strokes that reminded me of a Van Gogh.

The following day it became clear that I was looking in the wrong places. So I spent two days working toward the center of the city.

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