Monster Empire 3 by Michael-Scott Earle

Author:Michael-Scott Earle [Earle, Michael-Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael-Scott Earle
Published: 2022-07-22T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

By the time I reached Torrance’s cave with Sawsaw, Shitter, Canigo, and Ruby, the storm on the surface world was in full swing. We had left the rest of my family at home as they scrambled to get all the wagons, carts, and tools covered up, and Torrance led his own family to cover up any vulnerable plants in the vegetable garden.

I only stayed around long enough to grab my homemade blue-black powder mixture from the kitchen and all the tools we needed to make one hell of a big boom.

We wouldn’t get another chance like this.

If we had to go with my original plan to attack the guard shack while we set off the explosion, it would have been alright, but this was a much better opportunity. It would be messier to attack the guards, and it also might result in an increased guard presence along the road and all around the quarry.

But nobody would think twice about a loud boom in the middle of a thunderstorm. They would just assume it was another clap of thunder, and if there was any light from the explosion, they would think it was lightning striking near the quarry. It was the perfect opportunity to create our access point to the quarry. The only tricky bit would be setting the explosion to go off inside the underdark instead of topside from the surface world.

Now as we stood beneath Torrance’s cave entrance, thunder roared and echoed down the shaft above us, and rain lashed down the twenty-foot drop to form a quickly moving stream of mud at our feet. The water poured down every tunnel, and that included the one that would take us to the quarry.

“If we get much more fucking rain, this might be a slight complication,” Ruby groaned as she kicked up a splash of muddy water with her boot.

“Torrance doesn’t seem to think we will,” I said. “He says it shouldn’t rain too often until we’re further along in summer.”

“Even just an occasional rain could cause us problems,” Ruby replied. “We’ll have to make sure we elevate the ground more starting here, and that means a lot more back-breaking work of shoveling dirt.”

Sawsaw, Shitter, and Canigo groaned, but I knew they didn’t really mind helping Ruby. Sawsaw and Shitter were mostly just proud of the fact that they had been chosen to help build the railway, and Canigo was thrilled that I’d told him to join us on our mission tonight. If they had to shovel a little dirt to build up the ground where they would lay the railway, then that was a small price to pay for bragging rights to the rest of the family.

“Hey, at least we haven’t actually started to put down any track yet!” Ruby pointed out. “We’re still leveling out the ground and clearing the path from any debris or weird growing things that stand in our way.”

“There will be plenty of time to address the issue of the rain,” I said. “But right now, let’s haul ass to the quarry before the thunderstorm stops.

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