<— Chapter 15 ~*~ Chapter 17 —>
Noisy Ness might have run a cheap hotel when it came down to food and furniture, but her security was first rate. Each door sported a warded nine pin lock, and in the case of a room with special guests, she often added another. Amy had managed to pick the first one while waiting for Bernard and Rat to return home, but the second one was proving difficult.
She wiggled her lockpick patiently, and then paused when she felt something inside the door give. The door swung open silently, and she caught it so she could peek inside first. It was lucky that she did. A familiar indel was humming softly to himself as he sorted through Bernard’s things. It wasn’t the papers he seemed to be interested in, but his artifacts. The tattooing needle Bernard used to mark people, the inkpot, of which he took a sample, and any odd bit of grass caught on his clothing. It was so unusual for Schreber to be interested in these things, that against Amy’s better judgement, she decided to stay and watch.
“What are you up to, you old bugger?” He muttered to himself.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out small stretches of skin…with tattoos on them, she realized with some horror. They were indel skins. They belonged to people. One was wrinkled and old, with sparce white hairs that suggested it belonged to a human, and the ink was hard and black. On the other, much younger looking skin, the tattoo had a greenish tint to it.
A door below stairs slammed, and Rat’s voice came clear through the cracks in the floor. “What are you going to tell her? She’s not going to like it no matter what.”
Schreber’s head flew up at the sound, and met Amy’s eyes for a moment. She thought he’d come after her, but instead he disappeared through the open window without a word.
That worried her more.
<— Chapter 14 ~*~ Chapter 17 —>
The author of this website is a semi-professional short story author who chooses to remain anonymous for the writing of this novel. Her publications include 4 short stories and one honorable mention in a flash fiction contest.
Oh Noooooo I am SOOO behind on these chapter shoot! okay starting tonight I am catching up! Lawd, how did I let this happen
Hmm, Rat is a deep character for all his young years…or was he born old?
HAHA, I convinced you to put up a new chapter!
@ FreedomStar – Yes you did! Now I just need to find a picture for it. -.-
@ Mama Bear – Outer Kaluna makes you old. He just chose to put himself there.
@ Clare – It’s okay. ^^ It’s been pretty quite in the blogger world overall. I guess everyone’s busy with real life right now.
FINALLY caught up. This was a great chapter. Short though (as usual? lol). I wish you would have more dialogues. I love when your characters speak. So a bit more would be nice. Just a bit. Ah, but I must say, I actually do like the fact that your chapters are short. I can just drop by like now, day to day, and read your work knowing that it won’t take me half an hour to read.
So what’s your NaNoWriMo novel going to be about? I’m thinking of a pregnant girl who ends up in America but has to go back to her dying mother ten years later amidst lots of tears and snot.
Still trying to think of an actual story to carry all that.
NaNoWriMo…no can do for me this year. I’m rewriting my main herbal. Sigh.
Could not get it all due to my poor grasp of English, but Amy, Scherber, Rat, Wolf, Ness, Bernard, Duke (and the ‘indel’ ‘invoker’ references too) were good, magical.
Thanks for visiting my blog on the eve of New Year and being nice to it.
Rat is becoming my favorite character