Withered + Sere (Immemorial Year Book 1) by TJ Klune

Author:TJ Klune [Klune, TJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: sci fi
ISBN: 9781634765572
Publisher: DSP Publications
Published: 2016-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

HE WAS awoken later when his name was called, though he couldn’t say how much time had passed. It was dark, except for a glow near the edge of the bed. It looked like one of the robot’s video screens.

“What is it?” he asked thickly.

The robot’s eyes glowed in the dark, a fierce orange. “Something you should see. There may be hope for your prisoner yet. He certainly has surprised me.”

He sat up as SIRS brought the screen closer. His eyes took a moment to focus. His breath caught in his throat when he realized what he was looking at.

The screen showed the cellblock. The Dead Rabbit stood in the middle of the cage. A few inches from one sleeve of the jumpsuit had been ripped off. The torn fabric was tied around his wrist. Blood curled down his fingers and fell to the floor. His eyes had been covered in a mask again, but it was red instead of black. He bared his teeth at the panel recording him, and Cavalo saw them covered in blood.

“He chewed through the skin of his wrist,” SIRS said almost conversationally, as if discussing the snow outside. “I thought to stop him but figured it’d be better to see what he was doing. It seems as if he wanted to answer your question. What an odd creature he is. Oh how I have missed these little quirks of humanity! The crazies! The mentally deranged! The dangerously unstable! How I missed them.” The robot laughed.

Words were smeared on the cement wall in blood that was still wet. The brushstrokes were shaky and childlike. Cavalo mouthed the words, and deep inside the bees, in the place where the tattered remains of his sanity rested, he felt another rubber band break, as neat as you please. He barely felt it go. He thought it easier now.

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