Stone and Blood: Tomb, #1 by Michael McClung

Author:Michael McClung
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LitRPG, gamelit, dungeon core, ancient egypt, revenge
Publisher: Michael McClung
Published: 2019-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Krrsh crouched at the entrance to the tunnel – not in it, no, but close. Very close. Close enough to reach out with a claw and tap on the stone floor. If he wanted to.

Any time he wanted to. With a claw. Or with his tool. Yes.

But it would be better to do it with his claw. More dangerous. But better. He thought so.

He could tap, and the Bone Taker would hear. He thought so. He was almost sure. Maybe the Bone Taker would see.

Of course, it would be safer – much safer – to run away from the place with no bones, to search for another place with food, far away from the Watcher and from the Ironclaws. Much safer... except it would not be safer. Not really.

Here was food. Out in the desert, with no pack, Krrsh knew there was only death, sooner or later, for an Outcast. Death by starvation, drawn out by eating lesser carrion, or death by men, or another pack, or a hundred different perils of the desert.

Here, in front of him, there was only one danger – the Bone Taker, the Watcher. And there was much food.

This much Krrsh had concluded, after long thought. And he thought that the Bone Taker could have attacked him at any time while he was in the tunnel, and did not.

Did not did not mean could not. Krrsh knew that. But.

The Bone Taker had left a tool for him.

Maybe it wanted to... to... Krrsh didn’t know what the Bone Taker wanted. Not after thinking for so long and so hard that his head felt swollen and sore. But that might have been all the beating he had done to it.

He only knew that would not find out what the Bone Taker wanted by hiding in the sands. So here he was, crouched at the tunnel entrance, trying and failing to reach out a claw.

Impatient with himself, Krrsh gave a low growl. Reach. Tap. See what then.

Krrsh reached and tapped and quickly drew back. Every sense heightened, he waited.

Nothing happened.

After a time, Krrsh tapped again, two quick taps this time before he pulled his hand back and waited.

He almost didn’t notice Bone Taker’s response. It was completely silent. But Krrsh’s eyes were keen, yes. And so he noticed first one and then two lines that appeared on the tunnel floor in front of him. Like Bone Taker had scored the stone with his claws, but... not. The lines appeared, but no claw made them, and no stone dust and no scratching sound was made. It was more like the lines had sunk into the stone, somehow. Like stepping into loose, soft sand.

Krrsh’s hackles rose. “Cannot,” he whispered to himself, but he forced himself not to flee, or move at all for a time. Nothing further happened. Nothing rushed out of the tunnel to eat him, to take his bones.

With a trembling claw, Krrsh reached out once more and tapped three times before snatching his hand back.

The two lines disappeared.

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