The Man From Taured by Bryan W. Alaspa

Author:Bryan W. Alaspa [Alaspa, Bryan W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guffawing Dog Publishing
Published: 2015-12-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

When the morning came, Noble awoke from troubled dreams. Dreams full of darkness, but darkness that was alive, that came up from the sewers and flowed down the street like water and swallowed anything and everything. It was a darkness that moved like a living thing, and swallowed up the living and the dead and absorbed them into itself. There was also Whitten, with his dark eyes, but also with sharp teeth and ragged claws. Whitten wanted to tear Noble apart just as the darkness reached him so that he would be in pieces, but alive, when the darkness absorbed him. Whitten wanted Noble to spend eternity in that hell, in pieces, screaming uselessly into that living darkness.

He stood under the hot water in the shower for a long time trying to wash the dreams away. He shaved, mechanically, nicking himself several times, not even realizing that his hands were shaking. He combed his hair haphazardly and then packed up his bags and checked out of the hotel. It felt weird, not knowing where he was going or what was going to happen, or if he would have a place to sleep tonight, but his course had been chosen.

Noble stepped out of the hotel and was surprised when a black van pulled up in front of him. Dash stepped out of the passenger side and slid open the side door. In the driver's seat was Dr. Shaw.

"Let's go," Shaw said.

Noble nodded at the two men and stepped into the van. The interior was comfortable, with gray fabric. The door slammed shut.

It felt very final.

***

They drove for hours. Noble sat in the back and studied the road as it flew past. Dash sat in the passenger seat and said little. Shaw had the GPS working and that was the only voice for a long time. Despite the directions, however, Noble felt that Shaw knew exactly where they were going. They were headed west.

Noble let his mind drift. Soon he was dozing in and out. Shaw never wanted to take a break to go to the bathroom. Dash never said anything, either. Noble still had a lot of questions, but right now it seemed that Dash and Shaw wanted to focus on the task at hand. He got the impression that getting where they needed to go was more important than talking, so he kept to himself.

When was the first time he could remember that strange feeling in his stomach? When could he remember suddenly wondering where he was and what was happening? Noble wasn't sure, but he did remember, as a child, being terrified of going out of the house without his parents with him.

Noble was constantly afraid as a child. He would burst into tears at the tiniest nudge and his parents were very close to him. This was in the years before his brother was born, those precious developmental years when so much is formed. His parents had a small house on a dead-end street and there were kids all over the block roughly his age.

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