Godless by Shayne Silvers

Author:Shayne Silvers [Silvers, Shayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Argento Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Security had definitely caught onto our wholesale slaughter in the Eternal Gardens, forcing Xylo to take a different route that would conveniently bring us past the Master’s Library that Mina had mentioned. She had demanded to know if Dracula was making a move for it, whatever that meant.

I was coming to understand that Dracula loved his extravagant names when it came to inanimate objects—as if making up for his lack of interest in the names of living creatures.

Or Dracula was naming it exactly what it was—a Master’s library. Either way, I was somewhat relieved that our escape from the Eternal Gardens gave us the opportunity to check it out. Because it was highly likely that the real Mina Harker might swing by in order to make sure Dracula didn’t do whatever it was that she feared him doing.

Which meant I might get the chance to personally explain that if she really hated Dracula so much, we were actually on the same side.

I was also betting that with Dracula being such a collector of treasures—which Xylo had confirmed to be the case—he might have some books on the Omegabet or something equally dangerous that I could steal from him or destroy. Barring that, I still wanted to see what kind of books he considered to be valuable, or powerful.

Anything that might give me hints on the Master’s master plan.

You know how after you bought a new car you suddenly saw it everywhere? When you could have sworn you had never seen one on the streets before that day? Like you were some local trendsetter in automobile aesthetics, and that everyone had been silently waiting for you to choose your new car so they could go out and copy your design, even down to the color of the valve caps on your tires.

It was absolutely true.

Because everywhere I turned lately, I seemed to find double connotations and entendres that tied back to the word Master. Was that by design or just my overactive imagination?

Xylo had led us around the perimeter of the Eternal Gardens and through the Terrible Timbers—what felt like an enchanted forest—which luckily had no terrible wood or wolves to speak of—because they were likely all scouring the Gardens for us. Our walk through the dark forest finally opened up onto a small clearing with a huge, multi-story building with a single, fifty-plus-foot tower on the end closest to us. The building was still within the Terrible Timbers, but through the trees about a hundred yards further on, I saw several vast marble structures that looked like a ritzy city butting up against the forest.

Likely where all the rich monsters kicked their feet up.

The tower was encircled by one of those gargantuan, serpent-like, spiral staircases like I had seen on the towers from the bridge closer to the Keep. Up close, it was mesmerizingly intricate and detailed—enough that I almost feared it would come to life like a giant gargoyle.

Anything was possible here.

Xylo confirmed that it was not alive, and that it had never moved in his time living here.

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