The Miranda Contract by Langdon Ben

Author:Langdon, Ben [Langdon, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kalamity Press
Published: 2014-02-26T23:00:00+00:00

The gate was broken and weeds grew up through the ironwork. As Dan stood there looking at the front door he wondered whether the time had come for all of his grandfather’s friends to fade away. There hadn’t been any public news from them since the Mad Russian vanished, apart from some rumors about Pearl and her sprawling criminal empire. Probably the world had changed, like Grim predicted. The Celestial Knights were bigger than ever, but they operated in global circles, rarely coming to touch the ground in Melbourne. And the threats had become more indistinct – secret cells of terrorists or the occasional mad science experiment rampaging through a city. America still had its fair share of costumed bad guys, but the rest of the world seemed to have moved on.

Until now.

“This is the house?” Miranda asked. She was still holding his hand. He nodded and pushed the gate a little with his foot, the squeaking protest of the hinges making him wince.

They weaved their way through the gate and to the front door. Grim had moved into the old house after Dan’s grandfather vanished. Theresa hadn’t wanted it, so Grim crawled in and never left. There were no lights outside or inside. It didn’t look promising. But even if the old man wasn’t home, Dan knew there might be some way for him to break the cuff, some kind of device or instructions left behind.

Of course, he also knew that he could be walking into a trap. With a glance back to the street he wondered whether the house was being monitored.

Miranda rapped her knuckles on the door, giving him an annoyed look, but still she didn’t let go of his hand. After her knock, she stepped back a little, and Dan gave her a smile.

“You’d think a pizza boy would know how to knock on a door,” she mumbled, but there was a smile on her lips too. Dan tried the door handle. It was unlocked so he turned it and pushed open the door.

A musty smell greeted them as the door swung backwards, almost rolling out as if it’d been bottled for months. It was a mixture of swamp water and wet dog. Miranda covered her nose with her sleeve, but Dan stepped into the house with his full focus on finding out if anyone was inside.

He ran his hands over the walls, the limited connection with the house’s electrical work drawing him to the light switch. Dan kicked the door closed as the hallway lights flickered on.

The place was full of junk. Even in the hallway, Grim had piles of magazines rising to an impressive height, stacked on side tables and even on the floor. The first room to the right was full of boxes overflowing with papers and schematics. Disused and outdated computer monitors punctuated the boxes, their screens intact or broken, but nonetheless useless. The other front room was full of furniture, piled up like a road accident. They moved to the living area and found it had been fitted out like a workshop.

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