Spade: Fortuna Saga Book 1 by S.A. McClure

Author:S.A. McClure [McClure, S.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

No one stopped them as J led her through a series of back alleys and through the V’s slums. Greenish-brown slime coated the metal walkways. The smell was worse than the sight. Amber kept sniffing her own hair to keep herself from retching.

“How much farther is it?” she asked.

Instead of responding, he gripped her elbow and turned her towards a dilapidated building at the end of a street. Broken windows stared out at the empty driveway, vacant and Although there was no wind, it seemed to sway as they strode down the pathway to the door.

“Watch your step,” he said as he leapt over a hole on the porch. He smiled back at her when she did the same.

The stench of the main room was overpowering. While on Earth, Amber had smelled a lot of foul things. She’d had to remain in the room where her parents had died for days before someone came to help them. She didn’t think she could ever forget the way the flies had started to swarm around her mother’s rotting body or the smell of flesh slowing decaying.

Somehow, this was worse.

She gagged. Bile swelled in her throat, threatening to suffocate her if not released. She swallowed hard and pressed her nose into the length of her hair. Not even that was enough to stop the scent from permeating every part of her.

“Where in the stars did you bring me?” she seethed.

He held up a single finger to his lips as he helped her navigate over the rotten floorboards of the small house. She had the feeling that he was taking her someplace she would never be able to forget.

The buzz of insects hummed at the back of her mind. She scanned the rooms, searching for their source, knowing this place was death. Closing her eyes, she prayed that whatever it was J wanted to show her wouldn’t scar her for life. Well, at least not more than she already was.

He pulled a small, flat disc from his jacket pocket and depressed a groove at its top. It began to glow a soft blue color. Using it to light their way, he continued to lead her further into the house. It was bigger than she had thought from the outside. Each room was styled the way she remembered the house on Earth being. Concrete walls. Little adornment. Almost sterile.

“What is this place?” she asked as they rounded a corner and came to a locked door.

“This is where Spade dumps the things they find undesirable.”

Amber didn’t know what he meant by that. Why wouldn’t they just place them in the trash collector if they didn’t want them? Why have an entire house dedicated to ‘dumping’ them? She opened her mouth to ask additional questions when she heard the hiss of the door opening, and the overwhelming stench of death stopped her in her tracks.

He thrust the orb of light into the room, and Amber nearly collapsed at the sight.

Dead bodies were piled atop one another in different stages of decay.

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