Poison In The Well: The Wildermoor Resurrection: Book One by Chris Tetreault-Blay

Author:Chris Tetreault-Blay [Tetreault-Blay, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dead Men's Tales Publishing
Published: 2023-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

HOMEWARD BOUND

Chapter Fourteen

Stand on the northernmost tip of the great central plain, your back to the grand farmhouse that once commanded Tewke’s Range, and you’d be given the most undisturbed and cherished view of Wildermoor. Even from that point you could view tufts of lush green grass bowing gently to the wind as it floated across the valley below. It was the one reason why the Childs family – once one of the two families to whose sweat and toils Wildermoor owed its renewed existence – chose this spot for their homestead.

Follow the dusty dirt path back to the house, rounding the bulk of the stables to your right, and down the modest gravel courtyard, continuing along the road for half a mile and you would find The Weary Traveller Inn, another of the Childs family’s gifts to their community. The tavern had long since been the centre of the town; to some it served a loftier purpose than even St Jude’s Church had. Even in the depths of winter, when the ground was covered in white for as far as your sight could behold, a warm glow emanated from the windows of the pub. Laughter could be heard inside. Scenes of merriment could be viewed simply from the shadows cast against the heavy curtains during nightfall.

People laughed. People loved. People lived. For centuries it had been the same. True, as the world changed around them, the citizens of Wildermoor were largely powerless to stop such change creeping into their homes. New technologies replaced the things that were once considered vital to every man, woman and child’s everyday life. Horses were withdrawn from the roads and retired to the fields and stables. Their carts were broken down and used for firewood, soon replaced entirely by new hunks of metal powered down the streets by oil and steel engines. The warmth of the fireplace soon gave way to pipes hidden beneath walls, radiating heat from within. Silently. Unseen. The need for conversation in the glow of the flame was soon replaced by bouts of silence in front of the glare of a television set.

Life had changed. In some ways, for the better. In many ways, for the worse. But no matter how much we deduce and dissect it now, we cannot escape the one blinding fact; at least there had once been life.

That was then. But now, Wildermoor was a much different place.

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The world had always been a scary place.

All one has to do is survey the last five-hundred years to see that. Wars. Famine. The human race had always been set to self-destruct; it was just a question of when and who exactly would be the one to press the big red button. From the outside looking in, at this point in the year 2030, at least – and only for a few select people in the whole world who were in the know – that question had been answered eighteen years before.

The saddest part of it all, however,

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