The Nowhere Gate by K.T. Munson

Author:K.T. Munson [Munson, K.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26: Unknown World

It seemed that only the children of this world could see him, and they were afraid. They couldn’t hear him, just see him. Ever since he had come to this strange would, a shadow had followed him. It seemed to warp the air around it, and it made him sick. Whenever he was ill he world sleep, and time seemed to move by faster whenever he slept. Without a name, the empty voice of his memories had become overwhelming. Without recourse to find himself a name, he had taken to calling himself Nobody.

Though he didn’t know his name, he knew that the shadow creature was affecting the people in the strange little village. The man in charge, whom everyone called Ralph, talked about it being cursed. At first Nobody thought it was tied to him, so he had left. But soon he’d discovered that it was not a part of him—he had nothing to do with it. While it ate other souls, it did not attack him.

Perhaps the shade couldn’t remember what it was either. Perhaps they were both lost in this strange world that couldn’t see them. Perhaps they were both dead and the shadow creature was the spirit of someone who was evil. But what did that make him?

Nobody wasn’t sure. He remembered little else beyond the blonde woman. She kept haunting his dreams, and he had this strange feeling that she was important. Yet no matter how he tried, he couldn’t remember. Instead, she just continued to roam his dreams. He would wake fitfully to the world after weeks had passed. When he had fallen asleep last, they had just started building a fence around their village. When he’d awoken, it was all but complete. He’d sneak through the wood, which was solid to his touch. Instead, he had to creep through the gate when it was open or scale the wall. He found that he was surprisingly adept at climbing.

During the days, he would watch the villagers go about their business. At night he avoided the shadow that stalked him by staying close to the walls but not remaining within the settlement.

A stick broke near him, and he spun to his left. A dark-skinned man with red smeared on his face crept forward. He had an axe in his hand and his long hair was loose around his shoulders. He wore almost nothing in the warmth of the summer, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the wall that surrounded the little village.

Men dressed in shiny armor paced the perimeter with only the barest of torchlight. They did not see the other men with axes as more of them crept almost silently toward the walls. A man on the wall gave a cry, sounding the alarm, as one of the darker-skinned men released a warrior’s cry. It was a sound that he had never heard before.

The men rushed toward the wall. Arrows were loosed, and a crack of a whip filled the air. The noise drew Nobody’s attention to the men on the wall.

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