Touch the Dark
Touch the Dark
“Falling on top of my gun back in the storeroom had left me with a bruise the size of my palm, and it had turned an unappealing purple. Great. It matched the finger marks around my neck, so at least I was coordinated.
I’d just finished the inspection when Billy Joe drifted in the window. I glanced at the door, really wanting to tell him off but not liking the idea of an audience. Billy was my ace in the hole and best chance of getting out of here. I didn’t want anybody to know he was around.
He ...saw my expression and grinned. “Don’t worry. Somebody put one doozy of a silencing spell on these rooms. Whatever they’re planning, they’re serious about not being overheard.”
“Well, in that case: where the hell have you been?” My emotions came flooding back at the sight of him trying to look casual, as if he hadn’t left me out to dry earlier.
Billy Joe, a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking card shark in life, was one of my only friends now that he was many years dead. But he’d screwed up on this one and he knew it.MoreLess
I’d just finished the inspection when Billy Joe drifted in the window. I glanced at the door, really wanting to tell him off but not liking the idea of an audience. Billy was my ace in the hole and best chance of getting out of here. I didn’t want anybody to know he was around.
He ...saw my expression and grinned. “Don’t worry. Somebody put one doozy of a silencing spell on these rooms. Whatever they’re planning, they’re serious about not being overheard.”
“Well, in that case: where the hell have you been?” My emotions came flooding back at the sight of him trying to look casual, as if he hadn’t left me out to dry earlier.
Billy Joe, a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking card shark in life, was one of my only friends now that he was many years dead. But he’d screwed up on this one and he knew it.MoreLess
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