She Who Rules the Dead by Maria Abrams

Author:Maria Abrams [Abrams, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951658151
Publisher: Weirdpunk Books

Chapter 10: The Stop

We sleep outside. The temperature doesn’t dip below seventy, even in the desert. It’s a balmy night to top off a balmy day. I don’t sleep easily, unless I’m drugged or blasted by the dead apparently, but I especially can’t sleep in the heat. Nor can I sleep sitting up, and Henry still has me tied to this fucking rock.

All that’s left to do is watch him. The lantern has long gone out, but my eyes have adjusted to the night. Henry is curled up under a hunter-green sleeping bag. The blanket he so graciously offered me – that I so rudely refused – is piled in a ball next to him.

I imagine a baseball-sized spider, its eight bulging eyes and spindly legs, crawling into that blanket only to attack Henry’s face in the morning. The spider is venomous, of course, and its poisoned bite begins rotting Henry’s face, bits of necrotic skin falling off in chunks as he collapses into a headless lump.

It’ll be a story I’ll think about later on. It’s not every day you encounter a creature that could melt a face off so rapidly. I’ll Google the spider later. It’ll be called brown-desert-something-or-other. I’ll say, “Oh, how interesting,” and check my email or a subreddit. And then I won’t think about it for a long while.

The fantasy brings a smile to my face. I’ve begun to hate Henry. Not only because he’s kidnapped me with murderous intent, though that would be enough for most. I hate him because he thinks he’s special. Some sort of chosen prophet. When in reality, he’s a pawn. A nothing little chess piece being moved around the board by a much more powerful hand.

For now, I’ll let him sleep. Whatever monster he’s in cahoots with shouldn’t be my business, anyway. I should end this whole charade now, but I want to see the smug looks get blown off his face when he realizes what’s happening.

Whether it’s by the bite from a spider or something else.

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