Treasure Hunt by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-03T22:00:00+00:00

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The house rumbled. And then something cracked sharply in the hallway behind us. Lex and I spun around, moving almost in unison, just in time to see something huge and heavy come crashing down from the ceiling, slamming to the floor in a cloud of dust and tiny flecks of wooden shrapnel. I threw my hands in front of my face to shield myself from the onslaught and staggered away, coughing. My back slammed into the wall, bringing me to a sudden halt as dust continued to spew into the room.

I was certain the entire house was about to collapse around us, burying us amidst wood and stone that would slowly sink into the bayou, our bodies lost forever. But after just a few short seconds, the violence stopped, and I was still standing on the solid floor, my back pressed into the wall.

Carefully, I cracked my eyes open, expecting carnage and debris, but the only thing that was different was the massive cloud of dust in the air… that and the giant black block covering up the doorway.

Lex was on the ground, but unharmed, and I offered her my hand to help her up. She ignored it, shoving herself to her feet and brushing the dust from her pants.

“What the hell?” I wondered as I approached the blocked doorway. The barrier looked like the back of a dresser or something, and when I shoved against it with both hands, it didn’t budge, and I could feel the heavy density of it. “She rigged this place?”

“Where did it come from? Did it crash through the roof or something?” Lex asked.

It must have. I certainly didn’t see any dangling armoires while we were investigating the hallway.

The room seemed much dimmer than it had before, and when I turned around, I saw that Haddow had somehow managed to pull thick, wooden storm shutters across the window. I tested them and found that they were locked from the outside.

“Well, this is just great,” I said and kicked at a shard of wood that had made its way into the room. It skittered across the floor, leaving an uneven track in the dust.

Lex cursed emphatically and impressively and backed away from the locked door, determination in her eyes as she holstered her gun and set her stance.

“What are you—don’t do that? That’s not going to work,” I said, but she was already off and running. She rammed into the barricade shoulder first and immediately rebounded off of it with a thump that sounded incredibly painful. She swore again, rubbing at her arm, and squared up to try again.

“That’s not going to work,” I said again, stepping in front of her to stop her before she injured herself.

“Do you have any other ideas?” she snapped, trying to shove me out of the way, but I planted myself firmly into the floor.

“Not right now, but injuring ourselves isn’t going to help anything.”

Lex gave up trying to push past me and spun sharply around, heading to test the window.

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