Wendigo Wars by Norton-Smith Dulcinea

Author:Norton-Smith, Dulcinea [Norton-Smith, Dulcinea]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Published: 2012-03-10T04:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

"What others?" asked Mathilde with surprise. She had thought that Dash had told her all there was to be told.

"You asked me before how Zhu controls the wendigo. Promises of future glories do not mean a great deal to beasts controlled by their urges."

Mathilde nodded and continued to look at Dash as he turned to address the whole table.

"In the caverns there are several chambers guarded by wendigo. The wendigo are chained up, the temptation would just be too much for them to deal with that close up, but their presence is enough to deter any escape attempts.”

“Escape of who?” Seb spat out. “Do you talk in circles just to irritate us? Get to the point.”

Thinking that Seb’s comment was just a result of his jealousy Mathilde looked around the table and was taken aback to see that there were a few people beginning to look restless and irritated.

“My apologies, I do not mean to be annoying. The chambers are full of people; old, young, very young. There are four chambers with around twenty people in each.”

Gasps went up around the table and the Protectors all started talking at once. Paul held his hand up for silence. Mathilde couldn’t help feeling that she should have done it. She was meant to be the one in control but being with Dash clouded her mind and her priorities.

“Go on Dashiel,” said Paul, holding his hands up to settle the Protectors. Dash nodded then continued with his story.

“There are no bars to keep the people in but they are kept back by the wendigo chained close enough to get them were they to try and escape. I don’t know how they came to be there. Snatched away like we were maybe. Some of the babies were so young that they must have been born there, in captivity. The blood on the floors had dried but the smell must have driven the wendigo mad when the women gave birth.”

Around the table there was now only silence. Some of the Protectors had looks of horror and some had looks of confusion. Seb had lost the sarcastic look which he had worn so far and spoke directly and civilly to Dash for the first time since meeting him.

“Hostages? What does Zhu want to secure their freedom?”

“No. Not hostages. Food.”

This time Mathilde was among the people to gasp.

“You remember I told you that Zhu made a proposition to my father to rule Romania together and for criminals and unfortunates to be surrendered to Zhu to provide food for the wendigo?”

The people around the table nodded, some leant forwards to hear what was to come next, others leant backwards with horrified “oh”s as they realised what Dash was going to say. Having seen the conversations with Zhu first-hand, Violette and Mathilde were less surprised.

“Zhu did not come up with this idea out of the blue. He has already been doing it - for three years. Gein rejoiced in telling me more details than I wanted to know. He took me to see the chambers before he released me.

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