Lord Bobbins and the Romanian Ruckus (A TeslaCon Novel Book 1) by Sean Little

Author:Sean Little [Little, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spilled Inc. Press
Published: 2017-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

"Mr. Clarke! Hurry!"

Csupo's panicked voice woke Clarke out of a dead black sleep. Clarke was on his feet before he was fully conscious. Tesla was not in the workshop. "Where is he?"

"Here! There is a strigoi!" Csupo was at the door of the shop, pointing toward the barbican of the castle.

Clarke was out the door in an instant, drawing the Colt. Tesla was standing at the portcullis. The banshee was back. It howled and wailed, its arms flailing.

Tesla was standing as still as death at the gate. He moved to the portcullis and began to turn the wheel to raise it.

"Stop!" shouted Clarke. "Stop!"

The portcullis creaked and began to rise. Clarke sprinted at Tesla, reaching him and kicking the release lever before the gate could make it another foot. "What are you doing, man?"

Tesla looked at Clarke through narrowed eyes. "I wanted to study the creature. How else do you expect me to do access it?"

The creature beyond the gates shrieked louder. The noise felt as if it was shredding Clarke's eardrums. He raised the Colt and fired three shots at the banshee. It flew backward a few feet before rising into the night sky and disappearing, its screams evaporating into the winds.

"That was most unhelpful," Tesla said. He squinted into the sky, hoping to get a glimpse of it.

"That thing has been coming 'round these parts nightly. I'm not overly keen on meeting it in person. I feel like that would be bad."

"Please. It was only a bestiya. They are only figments of the imagination. Pieces of children's stories. I should like to meet one to evaluate its reality."

Summoned by the gunshots, Bobbins and Shaw burst from the keep. Shaw with her pistol, Bobbins with his oversized shotgun. "Did it come back? The Black Annis?"

Clarke slipped the Colt into its holster. He held up his hands. Bobbins and Shaw lifted their weapons to a neutral lethality. "It was back. I shot it again. Ol' Nicky was trying to open the gate and let it inside."

"Nikola."

"Why on Earth would he do that?" asked Bobbins. "Nicky, what were you thinking?"

"Nikola. I wanted to study the creature."

Bobbins shouldered the shotgun and leaned forward. "Have you been licking the posts of your electric coil again?"

"The creature is clearly something imaginary, yet it looks real. I propose that it holds no true threat to us. Examining what it truly is would hold much interest to the current state of this village."

"Letting something inside of these gates without knowing what it is proposes a threat," said Shaw.

"Then we are at an impasse," said Tesla. Without even so much as a shrug he strode forward and began walking back to his workshop.

"Peach of a fella, there," said Clarke. "A real people person."

"Nicky has his faults--" said Bobbins.

"Nikola," called Tesla without looking over his shoulder.

"--but he's the smartest man on the planet. Maybe even the smartest man in history. We need him."

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