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6 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 8 Sal reached for his knife on instinct, but found his hand immobilized. The man tipped his hat to him. "You see, if I wanted to do you harm, it would already be done, and there'd be little you could do about it, Sal Grimone. Instea...
5 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 7 Sal made his way up the path, and upon reaching the door was taken aback when it flew open unprompted. He couldn't see anyone, but he clearly heard a voice say "Come in young man, come in!" Sal patted his knife. The voice chimed a...
4 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 6 Sal considered the man's unfortunate predicament. As close to compassion as he could come was to give the man a fighting chance. Sal took his knife and cut one of the man's writs's horizontally. The loss of blood would not be enough...
2 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 5 "Now that we are a little closer, I think it's time to get some things straight. For one thing, whatever it is in your hand you are going to drop. For another thing, unless you want to start drawing air through the new ventilation i...
2 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 4 For Sal, though, the camouflage was not so important. As an expert deceiver, he had learned to spot falsity. Often it was something very subtle that gave a thing away. A light reflection that was too perfect--an edge that was too cr...
31 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 3 Sal wasn't sure what an apprentice was, but what he was sure of was that nobody had been as kind to him as Maltrus had. If there was a chance he could spend more time with this man, he would be more than happy to do whatever bei...
31 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 2 When Sal had taken the opportunity to run from the Inner Sanctum man, he wanted to go by his apartment to get a few "low tech" items for his trip to Undertown. Something told him, though, that this would be a terrible idea as Inner...
30 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger
Chapter 23 Part 1 Sal stood and surveyed the layout. he had not come to Undertown often. As a talented deceiver, nobody was paying for work done near Undertown, and likely no one would. Undertown was somewhat akin to a living fossil. When the holonos...
