Midsummer - A Bubba the Monster Hunter Novella by Hartness John G

Author:Hartness,John G.
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Falstaff Books
Published: 2016-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

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“The service in this restaurant blows,” I grumbled a few hours later. I was in a cell in the dungeon of the castle of Tisa’ron. The cell was pretty clean, as far as dungeons went. Admittedly, it was my first time inside an actual dungeon. I’d seen the inside of drunk tanks, holding cells, even a week in a county jail in Myrtle Beach, SC, after a weekend involving twelve strippers, the UGA defensive line, seventeen cases of beer, eight pounds of weed, and a goat.

Don’t ask.

But I’d never been inside an honest-to-God dungeon before. I don’t think there are any dungeons left in the U.S. Well, I was damn sure in a dungeon now. Like I said, it was relatively clean, for a jail cell underneath a castle. It was dry, the bunk had a mattress on it, and there were two buckets. One was full of almost clean water, and the other was empty. It didn’t take me long to figure out what the empty one was for.

The only real problem I had was the lack of electricity, Wi-Fi, or anything human-sized. Even human-sized stuff is usually too small for me, but since the average height of a grown male fairy seemed to be about five-six, I was a foot taller than the people the bed was made for. I was actually a foot taller than the people the ceiling was made for. I didn’t quite have to stoop to walk down the central hallway, but the cell itself was at least four inches shorter than I was.

So I sat. Then I laid on the bed for a while with my legs hanging off. After a while of my feet going to sleep, I pulled the mattress off the bed and laid it onto the floor. At least then my feet weren’t really dangling. I had just rolled over to try and catch some z’s when a voice came out of the darkness.

“Hey mister, are you human?”

“Yeah,” I replied.

“But are you a human from here, or from somewhere else?”

“I came from somewhere else,” I said. “I came here looking for someone.”

“Who are you looking for?”

“A human girl named Tamara. She fell into a trap that Puck set.”

“I’m Tamara! Oh, thank God! I thought everyone had given up on me. It’s been so long I just assumed everyone had forgotten about me. I’m so glad to hear your voice.”

“What do you mean, it’s been so long? It’s only been about three or four days. I got here two days ago, and I got sucked into Puck’s trap the night after you went missing.”

“Dude, I don’t know what you’ve been smoking, but I’ve been in this cage for like almost a month.”

“Huh. I read some shit like this in a book once. Time moves differently here than in our world, so it’s been a month for you, but only a couple days back home. So you can stay here as long as you want to, and everybody will still be happy to see you when you get home.

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