Message Bearer (The Auran Chronicles book 1)
“There were only a couple more trips to make. Low value drops, Caleb said. Semi-regular customers who kept the cash coming in. They left the last one when the sun was descending over the horizon, the shadows long and stretched. The temperature had dropped as the afternoon progressed, and they’d wound the windows up for the journey home. Both noticed but never mentioned the black BMW 4x4 that followed them all the way before vanishing ten miles from Skelwith.
They parked the van up in silence and... trudged back towards the back of the building where a more direct entrance to the Drain was positioned.
‘You okay?’ Seb said eventually as they dumped their gear by the door. Caleb hadn’t spoken for the best part of an hour, a tenseness following him since the meeting with Kollmorgen.
‘What?’ ‘You’ve not exactly been stimulating company for the past few hours.’ Caleb took a tankard from a shelf on the wall and blew in it. He put it under the tap of a barrel that lay on its side and poured a long draught of ale.MoreLess
They parked the van up in silence and... trudged back towards the back of the building where a more direct entrance to the Drain was positioned.
‘You okay?’ Seb said eventually as they dumped their gear by the door. Caleb hadn’t spoken for the best part of an hour, a tenseness following him since the meeting with Kollmorgen.
‘What?’ ‘You’ve not exactly been stimulating company for the past few hours.’ Caleb took a tankard from a shelf on the wall and blew in it. He put it under the tap of a barrel that lay on its side and poured a long draught of ale.MoreLess
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