Curse of the Druids
“Fortunately we had the good sense to stay quiet and duck into an area where a middle shelf had collapsed onto a bottom shelf, creating a space big enough to accommodate us all. It meant sitting on a pair of human skeletons, but it sure as hell beat the alternative of lying on top of one.
Meanwhile, the Egyptians stealthily approached, guns drawn as they sifted through the corpses on top and kicked the ones on the bottom shelves. They would reach us in under a minute. Too dim to see one anot...her, I held onto Marie, stroking her neck soothingly as she shook from fear. My other hand caressed the handle to my cherished knife, though it wouldn’t save us.
Our discovery was certain. Likely, our executions by gunfire were, too.
I worried Ishi would do something foolish, like take the small shovel and pickaxe he held and ambush the closest dude to us, hoping to cut him down and start picking off the rest of this dirty-dozen one by one with his victim’s assault rifle, ala Rambo.MoreLess
Meanwhile, the Egyptians stealthily approached, guns drawn as they sifted through the corpses on top and kicked the ones on the bottom shelves. They would reach us in under a minute. Too dim to see one anot...her, I held onto Marie, stroking her neck soothingly as she shook from fear. My other hand caressed the handle to my cherished knife, though it wouldn’t save us.
Our discovery was certain. Likely, our executions by gunfire were, too.
I worried Ishi would do something foolish, like take the small shovel and pickaxe he held and ambush the closest dude to us, hoping to cut him down and start picking off the rest of this dirty-dozen one by one with his victim’s assault rifle, ala Rambo.MoreLess
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