Return of the Dwarf King by Charley Case

Author:Charley Case [Case, Charley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642026160
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Finn filled a leather backpack with some clothes, a few of Penny’s more prized hoard items, and the last bottle of his favorite whiskey. It took nearly twenty minutes to traverse the tilted ship from his and Penny’s quarters to the main hold.

The large area was empty, as usual, and he had to do some pretty tricky climbing to get to the far end where they kept Draupnir in its own smaller hold. He pressed his hand to the control panel, and the door swished open, spilling an avalanche of identical golden armbands down the slanted floor of the main hold and against the large double doors he had entered through.

“Great,” he groaned to himself. “Now I have to dig my way out of this crap, as well.”

He pulled himself into the second hold and had to wade through waist-high piles of the stupid armband. He hated the thing, but it seemed like lugging it across the galaxy was finally going to pay off.

He made his way to the center of the large room, where the original Draupnir hung from a hook on a chain dangling from the ceiling. They found that if they left it on the floor, it would fling the copies of itself all over the place when nine more would appear at the bottom of the pile and displace the entire mess violently. Plus, Penny had the idea that if they made it look important, maybe they would get lucky, and some asshole who got on board to rob them might think it was valuable and take it, passing the curse on to them.

So far, no such luck.

After a few swipes at the just-out-of-reach artifact, one of which sent the thing swinging on its long chain, Finn was finally able to leap up and get his hand on it during a backswing. With a little more effort, he pulled himself up, unhooked the gold band, and stuffed it into his backpack with one hand while he held onto the chain with the other.

Sighing, Finn knew the next part was going to suck, but he didn’t want to take the long way down. He began to swing on the chain until he felt he had the angle right, and once he was out in the open, let go. He had to twist a bit in the air, but he was able to fall through the door, and hit the floor of the main hold at a pretty good angle, sliding down and plowing into the pile of replica Draupnirs, sending most of the pile blasting away, as if he were a comet and the golden armbands a bunch of dinosaurs.

Smiling at his good end to a bad situation, Finn stomped a few of the soft metal bands into flattened pancakes and stuffed them in the bag as well, then began the difficult journey outside.

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