Marked By Fate: A Games Of The Underworld Novel by S.D. Sun & Isoellen
Author:S.D. Sun & Isoellen [Sun, S.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragon Forge Entertainment Ltd.
Published: 2023-08-25T18:30:00+00:00
Chapter Six
Travis, Pieces of a place.
A great stretch of grass grown over some kind of made stone, unlike any Iâd yet seen, stretched out before us. It was parted by some similar but less sturdy type of smelly black surfacing.
âAlright den.â Deggs sniffed the air in amusement. âDis har be what we be needinâ.â
He trotted easily off down the middle of the strange field.
Looking after Deggs, out ahead of him I could clearly make out the tall, jagged stumps of buildings. These were the like of what he had related to me early on in our conversations. Tall structures which housed shops, places where leaders of businesses met, and often people in stacked houses formed these weird dwellings.
Now, they lay in ruin. Remnants of a time when humans actually controlled their own fates. At a glance, the city looked to be vast, and sat inside a natural bowl between the peaks. Stone skeletons, like crooked fingers shot angularly out of the ground at random intervals in the distance. Some, actually laced themselves like vines, between the buildings.
The whole place had the look of a sleeping death, waiting to be awakened.
I started forward, then turned back to the crevice weâd come through. That pack of hounds couldnât be more than a half hour behind us, at best. Theyâd have nowhere near the trouble weâd had getting through it. Shit. There had to be some way of blocking it off on this end.
Scanning the cliffs to either side, I spotted a large, ancient and slowly decaying rope. I followed it upward, right to the top of a strange, flat metal wall, hanging directly above this end of the crevice.
I pulled my blade free and chopped hard at the bottom of the rope. Surprisingly, it failed to cut even halfway through. I held my blade high and brought it down with as much strength as my weary arms possessed. The rope gave way with an ear-piercing snap.
Metal screeched against metal, rust and tiny bits of iron snapped free and launched into the air, showering down around me. The metal wall fell perfectly straight down into the opening. The ground shook, stones launched into the air, and thunder clapped from the crevice as the giant barrier slammed the opening shut.
I felt a tug at my tunic sleeve, turned, and found Deggs pointing left down the cliff face.
âWhatcha gone do âbout datân?â He raised his eyebrow questioningly.
I followed his finger a very short distance down the wall. There, maybe a quarter of those miles he talked about, was another such opening. This one seemed much wider, and with no wall hanging above it. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. I just couldnât catch a damn break, could I.
If those dog licking sons of cat humpers went right instead of left, I would have bought us no more than an hour or so. Damnit.
I lept passed Deggs and sprinted off down the pathway leading to the other opening. I had no idea how I was going to close something that wide, but I was damn sure going to try.
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