My hero by Tom Holt

Author:Tom Holt
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, English fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9781857233872
Publisher: ORBIT
Published: 1996-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

Jane let herself in through the front door, dumped her portable WP and sagged into an armchair. It had been a long, long day.

In retrospect, the police had been quite reasonable considering the fact that she had offered no explanation at all for her presence in the building apart from saying that she'd been researching for a book down in the sewers and had got lost. They had left her with the distinct impression that she'd been suffered gladly, but they'd let her go. Eventually.

As for what had happened to Hamlet, she had a theory about that, and she was horribly afraid it was correct.

Still, she reassured herself as she put the kettle on, if I'm right it does mean he's back more or less where he belongs; or at least, back with his own kind. Kind of his own kind. In any event, beyond her help, which was all that mattered as far as she was concerned.

When the coffee was made, she broke into a new packet of chocolate digestives, curled up on the floor in front of the fire and reached into her bag for the book she'd been reading on the train. Not exactly her usual thing, Sir

Arthur Conan Doyle; but it had been the only book on the bookstall that didn't have a naked female on the cover, and she had to admit, she'd forgotten how readable the old things were, once you'd got into them.

The book fell open at the place she'd left off. She read:

'One moment,' said I. 'You have, no doubt, described the sequence of events correctly, my dear Holmes, but there is one point you have left unexplained. What became of the hound when its master was in London?'

Before Holmes could reply, the young stranger leaned forward, his face a mask of the most intense emotions. 'Hey, Jane,' he cried, 'is that you? For fuck's sake, woman, where the hell have you been all this time, I've been trying to reach you for bloody hours. Look, you've got to get me out of here, they're all a bunch of raving nutcases and there's this bloody great dog, you would not believe the size of this sodding dog, and it jumps up and puts its horrible paws on your chest and licks your damn face off, so get your bum in gear and find some way I can- By all that's marvellous, Mr Holmes,' he exclaimed, 'I can scarcely believe

Jane closed the book with a shudder. Her first reaction was, No, the hell with it, it's out of my hands now. Let the little creep find his own way home; or he can stay there, get a job and a mortgage, just like the rest of us. She threw the book into a corner, folded her arms and tried to think of something else.

Tried, and failed. But somehow, in some weird system of logic that she couldn't hope to understand, he was her responsibility. Because, if she didn't help, nobody else would. Because .

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