She by David Duane Kummer

Author:David Duane Kummer [Kummer, David Duane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

18. Characters

All four of them were sitting down around a wooden, wobbly table in chairs that might not hold their weight. Lights hung from the ceiling overhead, although only one of the three worked. In a few hours, when the sun began to sink outside, this place would be too dark to read. For now, sunlight streamed in the windows enough to make out the individual letters of a book, but it would not be so for long.

Their feet rested on a thick, prickly carpet, the ugly brown-red slosh pot color. It smelled dank, with years’ worth of slush and mud from outside soaked into it. Everything seemed to be an dingy brown, a boring red, or a miserable mixture of the two. Only a few shelves with books stood in the single room, with a small desk beside them facing the front door. That hideous carpet covered every inch, and the color ran up the walls to the white ceiling, which looked like heaven compared to what was below.

Christian cleared his throat, before looking down at the book. It was old and rugged, with some pages ripped, taped, and ripped again. Peculiar stains dotted the pages almost as frequently as the ink. His hands held the book loosely, as if afraid that pressing too hard would make it crumble to dust.

“Looks pretty crappy,” Brandon commented.

“Yeah, but the author is fun to read,” Christian said.

“Fun? To read? Nope, never.”

Crystal stared at Brandon annoyed. “Can we just read the thing?’

Christian cleared his throat again and read:

“The Lady of the Woods.

“There is a legend in the Marcy-Hardy area, and I have taken a special interest in it. Unlike the other legends recorded in this book, I have seen the evidence and witnessed the stories firsthand. When you finish reading, you will understand greater what I mean, and how it is that I could understand and believe completely the stories and myths surrounding the Lady of the Woods.”

“I’m bored already,” Brandon said loudly. The others immediately shushed him.

“It started in the mid-1700s, although nobody can say exactly what year or when. This woman has no name that I have heard, and so for the purpose of learning we will call her the Lady.”

“Not a very cool name,” Brandon interrupted.

“Brandon!” Crystal threatened.

“Anyways.” Christian glared at the two before continuing. “The Lady was less than 20 years old when it all began, and she had mental issues that nowadays would result in her being sent to an asylum or psychiatric hospital. When she lived in the woods, she had one child, but the father of her child soon left when he realized how unstable and dangerous she was. Leaving her alone in the woods with the baby girl, he left in the middle of the night.

“While the baby girl grew up, she and her mother became especially close, and that child was the jewel of her mother’s eyes. The Lady loved her daughter, and lived a happy life in the unsettled land. It was not easy, and yet she enjoyed it very much, never wanting to belong to a town or a village.

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