Maledictions (Warhammer Horror) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Warhammer Horror
Published: 2019-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

The dream always started the same way.

In it, he was surrounded by riches, being showered by them. Precious gems and metals; jewellery. All the finery he’d become accustomed to, that he increasingly felt he needed to accumulate. The things that gave him the most pleasure, the most comfort: tokens, trinkets, charms from all the planets he had ever visited.

And he, Tobias Grail, would revel in it. At first.

Just as it always began with the same scenario, it would inevitably twist and turn. He’d find himself growing uncomfortable – that tingling sensation which always seemed to warn him, that he always relied on. Was somebody coveting the wealth he’d amassed, and was continuing to accrue? Did they want to take it away from him? Steal the fortune he had been working so hard to compile? If so, he would not let them! Grail would grab handfuls of the coins, the gems, the bracelets that he’d had specially made, gathering everything up so it would not be wrenched from his grasp.

Then he would stop, peer into the blackness that surrounded him. He caught flashes of movement there, heard whispers and shuffling. Someone watching, marvelling at his wealth, almost definitely. The more he acquired, the more he felt the need to protect it. Often he would caution whoever it was to get back, threaten them, for they were getting closer and closer the longer the dream endured.

‘Stay away! I’m warning you!’ he snarled. But this would only be met by more of the whispering.

Then things would change again, and Grail fancied that he heard snatches of those words. If anything, they were apparently encouraging him to add to his collection. But why? So they could take even more of his riches from him?

More, you can have even more!

Grail always squinted, attempting to make out exactly who this figure was in the shadows; that apparently was the shadows. But just when he thought he had them in focus they would move again, becoming vague, indistinct, and the whispers began once more. He was, by turns, excited and terrified by all this. His mind would flit from the possibilities they were suggesting, the outrageousness of the plans and schemes which would enter his head, to the sheer terror of putting them into effect. Of getting caught or, even worse, losing all that he had managed to stockpile thus far. Of going back to being in the Guard. Or even before that, to the gutters of his homeworld, desperate to escape and knowing there was only one way to do so. To become the scavenger he still was at heart.

More, always more!

Look how far he’d come, at how he’d earned his place and position; paid for it with blood and tears. He was not about to lose all that to anyone. However, this wasn’t what the figure wanted – he sensed that much at least. In fact, sometimes Grail wondered if it had even been his idea to begin all this. Was it his or someone else’s? Didn’t matter in the end, the result was the same.

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