The Brazen Blade by Billy Wong

Author:Billy Wong [Wong, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

The room's sides were lined with tables some of which held all sorts of instruments—knives, scissors, saws, pliers, hooks, needles, hammers, and other unidentifiable objects that looked capable of causing pain. Other tables housed large and small jars, bottles, and vials. Inside some of those containers which were clear floated strange yet familiar shapes, making Kath shiver at what they might be though she wasn't close enough to know for certain. Between the tables and stairs stood many beds.

On the beds lay butchered human bodies.

Zack shook where he stood, teeth clattering, and Kath too felt repeated chills run through her. "So t-these must be the gifted he kidnapped." No doubt he imagined himself in their position.

Most of them had clearly passed on, cut up to varying degrees with their abdomens opened up, the top of their skulls missing, or their ribs spread. But others were alive, breathing though unconscious and hooked up to numerous tubes, some heavily bandaged and/or missing limbs. "What on earth has he been doing?" Marty whispered. "It's like he's some kind of mad surgeon..."

Kath looked around, trying to skim past the more disgusting sights she glimpsed. Her eyes caught sight of a thick book. She squeezed between beds which she averted her gaze from and took it off the table. It didn't have a title, so she opened it. It seemed to be a journal. The notes were jumbled, meant for the writer rather than a reader, and hard to make sense of. Diagrams showing "procedures" to be done on human subjects turned her stomach almost as much as seeing the results. But as she kept looking, repeated words stood out. "Gifted, secret, immortal... guys, I think Lord Parr is trying to find a way to have eternal life by experimenting on the gifted."

"I don't care what he's up to, I want to get out of here!" Zack said. Tears on his cheeks, he turned for the stairs.

"Wait. Before we go, we need to grab some evidence of what Parr has been doing. This book alone won't be enough." She swallowed. "I know it isn't appealing, but we might have to take a body part." Then she spotted something that might be slightly less uncomfortable to carry—only slightly. Inside a jar full of yellow liquid floated a dead infant. She reached for it. "At least we don't have to touch the contents... Turn around, Zack. I'll put it in your backpack."

He looked appalled. "Mine? Why me?"

"I figured if we have to fight, me and Marty can try to handle it, and if you don't have to step in it'll be safer with you."

"Oh, all right. You'd better take it out yourself, though."

"Sure, I can do that." She slipped it into his pack. To be honest, she felt quite glad the instant that dreadful thing left her hands.

"Now what?" Marty asked. "Do we just get out of here and take this to the constables?"

That had been her first thought. But the more she mulled it over,

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