The Blue Blazes
“Certainly by examination their wants and needs are crass, even evil: they enjoy the pain of others. They take great pleasure from the torment of human beings – they enjoy it the way a dog enjoys rolling around in roadkill, or the way a cat takes pleasure in torturing a rat. Gobbos hunt. They hurt. They eat. They breed. They steal. They kill. And yet that’s just what we see of them: and until the Sandhogs broke into the Great Below years before, the gobbos had little exposure to mankind. So what... did they do before they met us?
– from the Journals of John Atticus Oakes, Cartographer of the Great Below The bells are ringing.
Someone screams.
A sick, sinking feeling hits Skelly’s stomach, like her guts have no bottom, like it’s just a hole that pulls her into herself.
Some of the dead run toward the danger. They hold swords. Claw-hammers. Old-timey double-barrel shotguns, barrels rimmed with rust. Most run away. Faces frozen in mortified panic. Wretched limbs dragging them along.MoreLess
– from the Journals of John Atticus Oakes, Cartographer of the Great Below The bells are ringing.
Someone screams.
A sick, sinking feeling hits Skelly’s stomach, like her guts have no bottom, like it’s just a hole that pulls her into herself.
Some of the dead run toward the danger. They hold swords. Claw-hammers. Old-timey double-barrel shotguns, barrels rimmed with rust. Most run away. Faces frozen in mortified panic. Wretched limbs dragging them along.MoreLess
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