(TFT) SOLO III, 002

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

SOLO III
Demon World
Part 002

  You sit up.  Your body feels very weak.  She slips the empty bottle into 
her purse and helps you off the table.  You have to put your arm over her 
shoulder.  You can barely walk.  She takes the candle and leads you to a 
hole in the wall,
through the door to a landing at the top of crude stone steps going down 
into pitch darkness.  She kicks a metal rod coming from a gap between the 
landing and the rock wall.  Like a lever it clicks over from leaning toward 
the portal to leaning toward the stairs.
  A huge stone slides down silently and covers the hole behind you.  The 
candle flickers.  The stone lands with a thud and the air goes very still.  
Allowing you to use her as a crutch, she helps you begin down the stairs.  
Her left hand holds the candle.
  ''Who am I.'' you ask.
  She doesnt look at you to answer.  Watching the crude irregular steps 
carefully she says ''You were dead too long this time.'' Her voice sounds 
strong, confident, and a little bit accusatory.
  She helps you down a few more steps.  ''I didnt think I made it in time, 
Uncle.'' She sounds small and scared.
  You look down at your chest.  Its a nasty mess.  Matted hair and drying 
blood.  A drip down your back tells you that what ever the wound was, it 
went all the way through.  You look at her worried face in the candle light. 
 Her brown hair is raggedly cut.
  You still feel lost and uncertain.  ''Where are we going?''
  She keeps helping you down steps.  ''To the catacomb.''  Deeper and 
deeper, winding this way and that.  ''To put you in a proper bed and let you 
rest.''
  With your arm around her shoulder she feels graceful and strong.  She is 
helping a weak old man down a treacherous flight of stairs.  She must work 
for a living.

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