Kheris Burning (Thieves' Guild Origins: LC Book One): A Fast Paced Scifi Action Adventure Novel by C.G. Hatton

Author:C.G. Hatton [Hatton, C.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sixth Element Publishing
Published: 2016-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

The next time I came round, it was darker. Dusk. I felt like me again. Sore, tired, soaked in sweat like I’d been running for miles, but normal. The weird thing about being so off your head is that you don’t have any idea how bad it is. And when you get back, you can’t remember how bad it really was.

I leaned up on one elbow. There was a figure standing there in the shadows by the open window, tall, rifle held casually balanced in his hand, and I froze for a second before I recognised him. It was freaky seeing an adult in our domain. Even if it was in a place we’d abandoned.

Charlie turned and looked down at me, shaking his head like he was more unimpressed with me than he’d ever been.

He came over and crouched by my side, resting the rifle across his knee.

“You gotta stop breaking into the garrison,” he said.

“I’m fine, thank you.” I couldn’t help the grin.

“I know you are.” He was trying not to smile. “We just spent two days pumping you full of antibiotics and fluids. Thank Maisie. If that girl hadn’t found you…”

“I know.”

“Seriously, kid, stay away from the garrison.”

I stretched out my leg. I needed to get up and move about but going back to sleep was also tempting. “How did you know?”

“We know everything.”

I didn’t believe that but I started backtracking over every single time I’d been in there, trying to figure out if I’d missed something, left a trace somewhere.

“Don’t worry,” he said. “We know. They don’t.”

I didn’t have a clue what that meant.

“How do you do it?” he asked casually as if he was asking how I tied my shoes.

“Do what?”

He took a code book out of his pocket and tossed it open onto my lap.

I stared at it then looked him in the eye. “I didn’t always give them everything.”

“We know. I want to know how you do it.”

There was something about Charlie. There always had been. And it hadn’t just been that thunderstorm and the poker game. I’d met Charlie when I was only five. He was the one who had pulled me from the rubble that had once been my home.

I trusted him and I didn’t even think about why I shouldn’t.

I closed the book, hardly giving it a second’s glance, and handed it back to him, starting to reel off the code from the page it had opened at.

It took him a second to open it again, frowning until he caught up with me and started reading along. Then he shook his head with a smile.

He turned back a few pages. “What about seven thirty four?” he said.

I started but he interrupted.

“Three twenty two.”

I started again.

“Alright, alright, I get it. Have you still got the cards?”

I nodded, desperately hoping he wouldn’t ask for them back.

“You always let me win, didn’t you?” he said.

I nodded again.

He laughed. “Jesus. Don’t ask me to play poker with you again.” He looked serious then. “Stay away from Dayton.

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