Thaw by North Geoff

Author:North, Geoff [North, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Big Bare Books
Published: 2014-06-19T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Cobe had never experienced such an odd dream in all his sixteen years. He was walking a few steps behind a young girl—the same girl he’d seen down in Big Hole where Lothair and a handful of his kind had held the lawman captive. He called out to her, but the girl kept walking without even glancing over her shoulder. Her long red hair was beautiful. Cobe wanted to touch it—he needed to know if it would be as soft in his fingers as it appeared to his eyes. He tried running, but his legs were mired in air as thick as water.

Voices whispered to him from the line of black cylinders on his right. They were calling his name, pleading to be set free from their cold tombs. Cobe refused to look at them; his eyes were lost in the girl’s hair. The cylinders rattled and banged; the muffled voices inside became screams, demanding release.

The girl came to a strange table set in a rock wall. She slid along a seat covered in something red. The other woman was there—Cobe had seen her before, too—the one leaning into the open cylinder next to Lawson. She was as beautiful as the young girl. They shared many of the same features. Mother and daughter?

Cobe’s feet stopped working. He reached out to the women twenty feet away. They couldn’t see him. He yelled, but they couldn’t hear. Why was he even trying? They wanted to kill the lawman. They had wanted to kill all of them.

It was the girl. Cobe needed to see her face again. He recalled the brief moment their eyes had locked in Big Hole—how green they had been. Her hair…those eyes…he needed more. The things screaming from their cylinders drowned his shouts away. Mother and daughter could hear nothing—or they chose to ignore it. The two were in a world of their own, looking through an ancient pile of books soaked in blood.

Cobe continued shouting at the girl until someone kicked him in the rear end.

“Keep it down, you loud-mouth shit,” a rasping female voice said.

Cobe opened his eyes and smelled the earth. He remembered falling into grass and leaves. His face was now stuck in cold mud that reeked of urine.

“That’s more like it,” the voice said. “Few more seconds of yer wailin’ and I woulda cut yer throat wide open, I woulda.”

Cobe peeled himself from the wet ground and rolled onto his side. Devon’s lifeless white face stared back at him. An arrow was stuck in the flesh above his collarbone. There was a six-inch-wide gash in his throat.

“See? I done it to him ‘cause the big idiot wouldn’t keep his mouth shut. Tried pullin’ that arrow out but he wouldn’t shut up. Same thing fer you if you start up with the shoutin’ again. Dirty don’t lie.”

The back of his neck and the top of his head throbbed in pain as he sat up. Cobe thought he might throw up on Devon’s stomach. There,

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