Station 64: The Doll Dungeon: Frenzied Rebirth by Matthew Peed

Author:Matthew Peed [Peed, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sprocketed Ink
Published: 2021-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18: Helping the Dungeon

Lance Teron

I finished putting on my damp but at least not blood-soaked clothes. Thankfully, the dungeon wasn’t freezing, so I didn’t have to worry about getting sick from wearing the clothes. Just as I was about to head back to my room, the entire dungeon felt like it was coming apart under my feet.

As I wondered what the hell was going on, moonlight flooded through the window in the room. I made my way carefully over to it and glanced outside. We were rising up from the ground under the station. Thankfully, I was on the back of the mansion, so no one saw me in the window.

This station was about halfway up a rising hill in the city, allowing a decent view from my current vantage. A dungeon had never risen from the ground like this before. The closest parallel would be airports, which had sprawling dungeon fields that went on for miles. Maybe Azaria was some sort of hybrid, a new version of the subway and train-station-based dungeons. She was certainly intelligent enough to match one of the airport dungeons, if the stories about them could be believed.

The mansion finally came to a stop as it finished rising from the ground. I quickly left the window, as I didn’t want to risk someone seeing me. Back in my private room, I was relieved to see it still appeared to be cut off from the rest of the world. I’d been worried, considering it had been underground before.

Wondering what was going on, I’d only been resting for a few minutes when I heard some sound coming from the other side of the wall.

“Girl, is right now really a good time to talk to your little project?”

“She might be the only one who can help us right now!” Azaria said. I could detect just a bit of panic coloring her voice.

“Ah, so her secret came out,” Starburst said.

I gritted my teeth but could only curse myself. I thought that dungeon cores would be able to tell gender either way, so I didn’t think anything about bathing. While the world maintained a bit of sanity after the Aether shift, there was still a lot of hardship. Especially for three women alone in a rundown part of the neighborhood.

My little sister might be able to crush someone’s heart from over fifty feet away, but there were plenty of people who could blow up our house with ease. If she was the only girl, then there would be little merit for them to try to take her, since everything they could want her to do would likely result in their deaths. That was the danger of getting close to a person that could crush your heart with a thought.

Me on the other hand—I was powerless after the Shift. Perfect pickings for the slavers and other less reputable personages in the city. Kyle mentioned knowing my secret. I would have to find out how much he knew exactly. Just the memories of the day of the Aether Shift caused me to draw in a deep breath.

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