Gotrek & Felix 12 - Zombieslayer by Nathan Long

Author:Nathan Long [-, Nathan Long]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-10T09:02:31+00:00

While the people of the castle began to gather in the courtyard for von Geldrecht’s speech, Felix, Kat and the slayers went up to the walls and looked at the sections of the hoardings that the traitor had visited during his shadowy prowling, and it was Felix who found the first sign of sabotage—and nearly died for it.

Remembering that the saboteur had stopped and reached over the outer edge of the hoarding roof at regular intervals, Felix climbed out onto the battlements and began to examine the shingles and walls from the outside, though he wasn’t sure what he was looking for. He saw nothing on the shingles, nor anything on the shoulder-high panels that protected the defenders from airborne attacks and enemy fire, but as he looked at one of the support posts that held up the roof, he saw a strange black squiggle drawn on the wood.

At first glance, Felix took it for a carpenter’s mark, made in charcoal, but something about the shape of it looked wrong. He grabbed the post to pull himself closer for a better look, but the wood around the mark splintered and gave way and the post slipped sideways under Felix’s weight. Only a frantic scramble and a wild grab at the panels kept Felix from falling backwards off the walls to the sea of zombies below.

“Felix!” cried Kat, from the roof.

“All right, manling?” asked Gotrek, looking up.

Felix’s heart was pounding so loud as he clung to the panel he almost didn’t hear them. With infinite care, he pulled himself back onto the solid stone of the crenellations, then let out a breath.

“I believe,” he said, “I may have found something.” He pointed a trembling hand at the next post. “Look there, near the top. But don’t put your weight on it. It won’t hold.”

Kat and the slayers stepped to the next post, and when Felix could get his legs working again, he joined them, and saw that it too had a squiggle drawn upon it. It was most definitely a symbol of some kind, but not one a carpenter ever made. It had the look of the kind of arcane glyphs he had seen carved upon ancient tombs and other places Of unfathomable evil that his travels with Gotrek had led him to, and it hadn’t been made in charcoal, but in blood, now dried and brown.

The wood around the symbol was a different colour than the rest of the post, pale and grey, as if it had been exposed to the elements for centuries. Gotrek grunted when he saw the discolouration, then pinched the wood between his finger and thumb. It crumbled like dry cheese.

Kat shook her head, dismayed. “Taal and Rhya, had he marked every post…”

“The hoardings would have collapsed entirely,” said Felix.

“But likely not until the start of the next battle,” said Rodi, grinning. “A nasty little trap.”

“See how many he marked,” said Gotrek.

But before they were able to check more than a few, a horn blared, and Classen’s voice rang from the courtyard.

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