The Wardens by Scott Moore

Author:Scott Moore [Moore, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

The door moved slowly, almost as if it were too heavy to open. Creft wondered if the darkness was pushing back against whomever was trying to let the light creep in.

Creft backed away from the stream of light as it filtered into the room. His eyes burned with the sudden infusion and he almost closed them, but his curiosity was greater than the pain.

Even as his eyes watered, he dared not blink for fear of missing whatever was coming in. Creft saw two mice scurry away along the wall, down into their crevices. Then he saw the breadcrumbs littering the floor all around the room. How had he missed them? Even in the dark, he should have felt those crumbs. His belly ached with hunger and his missed opportunity.

The hand that reached out around the door, flinging it open with a sudden burst, was gritty. Whomever the hand belonged to had toiled in the dirt or something very close to it prior to coming into the dark hell that Creft was in.

Creft pressed his back against the wall, compressing himself into a small human-sized ball in the corner of the room. His heart fluttered with adrenaline. His instincts should have had him charging the person at the door, hoping to overtake them. Maybe he could get away. He would not have a very good chance at escaping, but it was something. Creft didn’t have the strength for it, however. The lack of food and water left nothing in him, so instead, he sat, awaiting his fate.

The boot that first entered the room was much too expensive to belong to that same filthy hand. Creft’s brain tried to connect the two, but they were too different. Those boots were a noble’s boots, but the hand was that of a laborer.

Creft felt tears drift down his cheek, and his tongue instinctively darted out to catch them. Until that moment, he failed to realize how badly his tongue hurt from the dryness; yet now, he felt it throbbing for some relief.

Could he now find that spilled cup of water from earlier? His eyes roved across the floor, not wanting to tear away from the person entering for too long. There was no cup in sight nor the tray that the food had been thrown in on. How had they removed them without him knowing?

Creft heard the second boot hit the cold floor as it entered the room. With the boots planted firmly in the light, Creft could also now see a pair of well-tailored pants to match the expensive boots. He followed them up and found a long red evening jacket over a red velvet vest.

Creft felt his heart skip a beat. He only needed one guess to figure out who this man was. Those clothes were enough to tell him that Pryce had finally come to pay him another visit.

***

Alis rolled the copper wire between her thumb and forefinger. Somehow moisture had gotten into the circuits of the board, shorting out the wire.

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