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The Righteous Way Chapter 37
“We weren’t training; we were enjoying a good fight one warrior to another. Even with his disability I would trust Isaac’s battle skill with my life, just as I trust yours,”“Odd to hear a compliment about your least attended student,”“I have no doubt about your skills James , I’ve fought you with a blade and combat is no stranger to you,”“And what about them?” James motioned to the guards and other students,“They are inexperienced in real battle, but they learn well.”James nodded. “At least Ruby’s getting the hang of it.”They both looked in her direction. She was fighting one of the guards and continued to pummel him with her sword. “Then again, compared to you that man has the grace of newborn calf.”James bid farewell and headed off. Alex continued to instruct the class until the sun began to set. He returned home to Bayle and a cooked meal awaiting him. Isabelle also sat at the table. “I hope you don’t mind, I invited her for dinner,” Bayle said, “She is always welcome i
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“You think you’re ready!?” he yelled at Ruby who struggled to breathe, “These are real swords! They cause death! Unlike me your enemies will try to kill you, are you prepared to die!? If you cannot fight against me, then how can I expect you to fight—“Without warning Ruby grabbed his arm and lifted her legs off the ground. She wrapped her feet around his neck and applied pressure. He let go and she dropped. But she didn’t stop. She pushed off the tree and tackled him at the waist. He was surprised by her strength as he went up and then slammed into the weeds. She then took a dagger from her boot and held it against his neck drawing a small drop of blood from his skin.He knocked her away, but she ran and grabbed a sword and shield. They fought and she did not hold back. Alex clutched his chest after a few swings and fell. “Don’t think we don’t know what we need to do,” Ruby said as she held her sword to his head, “You are family and we will do anything for you, anything!”Alex look
The Righteous Way Chapter 39
Alex and Claude clashed again. “You fool, what makes you think you can win against the Knights of Omega!” Claude laughed between blows,“What makes you?” Alex retorted as he kicked Claude back and swung for the shoulder. The sword contacted the armor plating, leaving a sharp dent. Claude returned with a strike to Alex . Alex raised his shield to block the blow and the two fighters took a moment to find an opening. Alex quickly dodged an incoming knight crashing to the ground before him. Isaac was then at his side. “I told you commander,” he said, “They are not as we were,” Isaac then stared at Claude, “We are legend.”Claude now angry swung furiously at Alex . Both he and Isaac worked in unison to block and strike. Many of the hits were to Claude’s armor, but eventually Alex pierced him under the arm between the plating. Claude dropped his shield and Isaac sliced at his side scoring a hit.Claude dropped to his knees and clutched at the wound. Blood began to drip through his gaun
The Righteous Way Chapter 40
Long live the king! Long live the king!” everyone shouted including Alex ’s friends. Again, Alex lifted his hand to silence them. “Go back to your business, you have your new king.”Everyone cheered and began to disperse. Alex stood watching them go until the square was empty. He and the others returned to castle. Alex and Bayle dropped onto the bed inside the royal chamber as the sun began to set. He felt the crown fall away onto the sheets. He picked it up and placed it carefully on the end table.“All in a day’s work for the Great Alex Tolbert ,” Bayle said, “Infiltrate Korryn’s greatest stronghold, capture its king and then take the kingdom for himself by vote of the people,”“Another tale,” said Alex , “But what of Coltyn and James , Michael and Ruby? Franklyn and the others? What will we do without them?”“Those are questions for tomorrow.” Bayle put her head upon Alex ’s shoulder plate as he pulled her in close. Either was too exhausted to try and remove his armor. Instead
The Righteous Way Chapter 41
He exited the room and had one of the nurses enter to keep an eye on Bayle and the infant. He began to roam the halls aimlessly. His soul felt full to the point of bursting and all he wanted to do was dance, but didn’t know a place to do so. James turned a corner and saw him coming. “Alex , what is the news?”“The baby is born; her name is Victoria.”James knowing how Alex felt led him to the throne room and ordered everyone out. He then had the last guard out fetch Scarlett. She arrived in haste and entered to see the two men dancing like fools. She joined in. After completely exhausting himself Alex collapsed on his throne while James and Scarlett sat on the steps before him.“How do you feel now?” James asked,“I feel light, like unto a feather, but my heart won’t stop beating,”“I remember when Daniel was born,” James reminisced, “I had no one to help me through the feelings, I danced all night in the woods,”“I remember,” said Alex , “you had some of us worried you’d left
The Righteous Way Chapter 42
Whatever this man claims I swear my liege it is a lie,”“This man has claimed nothing, I am concerned about some roofing slats you sold this man,”“Yes, your majesty, and what is your concern?”Alex pulled one of the slats out and held it up to the man. “This wood is nearly to rot,”“Oh, but your majesty I… you see…”“May I see your stock?”“Of course sire,”Alex checked the many piles of wood at the mill and selected a few replacements. “I’ll be taking these in place of the ones returned,”“But my king, those are of a higher price,”“They are both oak and of the same size, how is one priced above another?”“Well… I mean…”“Do you run an honest business here?” Alex ’s expression became stern, “For if I find you taking advantage of the people of my kingdom then bear my warning that this mill will be shut down and you will be finding new work,”“But sire!”“Hold your tongue,” Alex warned and the owner quickly shut his mouth and clasped his hands over it, “My royal envoy and head of t
The Righteous Way Chapter 43
“Damn him,” he says as he turns his face to the right exposing a rash of bumps along his hairline. He has always favored the military high and tight haircut, but this time the prison barber has cut too close. Had it been another day, he would have complained to the warden about this obvious attempt to disfigure him. Not because he gave a damn, but because it was fun to cause the assholes problems. Not much fun to be had on death row and you had to find it where you could. Not much longer and the fun would stop completely. But he would make these last hours enjoyable if he could help it. He lies back on the bed and puts his hands behind his head. He closes his eyes and lets his mind wander to more enjoyable thoughts.He’s forgotten most of the images of his “activities” in his head to masturbate to, and the ones he can remember, bring him no further gratification. Outside, whenever the pictures in his head faded on him, he knew it was time to go out and replenish them. That meant to go
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Once through the crowd, he surveys the outside of the prison compound. They are not letting the public inside, of course, but that has never been and never will be a problem for him. He walks toward the gated entrance, where several Sheriffs’ deputies stand guard. Walking briskly toward them, he pulls the long, black trench coat more tightly around him. As he arrives at the entrance, a deputy steps in front of him, impeding his progress. “You’re going to have to go back now, sir,” the deputy orders. Delano lifts his gaze to meet his. Images flash across Delano’s vision. He will, in turn, show the deputy in front of him what he sees. This is your fear, Delano reflects as he gazes into the eyes of the man in front of him. This is your childhood fear.A spider. A big black one, with several human eyes that blink independently of one another. It’s hanging from the ceiling of a bedroom. A little boy’s bedroom. Man, this spider’s big! As big as a basketball! It slowly lines its way down
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Feeling his back pockets, Alex told him, “Well come with me, we drops down to Bank of Montreal. I needs a bit of air, and a smoke maybe.”The door to Jimi Jak's opened, sound blowing out to the street for a moment or two and then gone, muffled inside. Alex lit his cigarette while he and Staunch went down the steps, which were now soaked in beer, streaks of blood, and littered with smoked down cigarettes butts from a successful, savage night. The Bank of Montreal only across the road from the bar, they crossed over once cars whizzed past.Nobody was inside the bank's ATM lobby. Alex passed Staunch the rest of his smoke before heading up towards the doors.“Not sure which one'll work,” Alex said thumbing through a handful of stolen debit and credit cards. “Might be a few minutes.”Alex went in to the bank machine and Staunch stood alone, drunk, in the dead of night. Occasionally, a car passed, a sound of laughter from the bar flew on the breeze, and a short time Staunch actual
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Inside, the wood stove crackled nice and hot. The evening outside, even in summertime, cooled enough to put a chill in the bones. Brian and tom sat at a medium-sized kitchen table; they'd just finished off a good feed of minced moose burgers and deep-fried home fries. Don cooked a lot of things, but the boys loved their late night lunches – usually the same every time, burgers and fries or moose sausage and fries. As they relaxed in their chairs, Don brought them each a glass of ginger-ale, and a good portion of liquor for himself. The boys drank their pop and Don got his kit: one cigarette rolled, and a joint, as well.“Gimme a smoke,” Brian said, hand out.“Yeah, right,” laughed Don. “I ain't that nice, boy.”Brian laughed and Don lit his smoke.“That was wicked grub, Don,” Tommy told him. “Thanks again. Was friggin' starved.”“Today's been a long one,” said Brian.Between puffs of smoke, Don asked, “What'd you two shits get up to all day?”The boys looked nervous at one another, sl
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The majority of the poor girl's murder only came back to him by way of time. Once months went by, the nauseating days of his freedom stretching on, and on, he pieced together several images from the night he first made death; him, the craftsman, making death by hand. Her throat bulged under a tight grip of his clenching fists. She tried to grab him, poke at his eyes, but the force of his hands clamping into her skin and taking the breath out of her heaving lungs kept him safe from any real damage, save a couple scratches. He did not actually orgasm; all the same, his penis shot up erect and stiff like a great monolith against her and he pressed it to her, putting the entire weight of his body down on hers, crushing the clutching bits of life from her flailing, pathetic existence still trying to hold to this world.From the start, he made a fine and thorough killer, an efficient machine created for the sole purpose of killing. Her body would never be found; it still sits buried, rotted
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He lived on a decent cul-de-sac in Grand Falls, down near the river. Out back of the house sat a spacious garage separate by a large concrete pad, itself leading up into the long driveway. In the garage he had a nice spot for all his woodworking equipment: table saw, bench, racks of drills, hammers, handsaws, wrenches, and plenty of storage space for fresh wood and the like. At the back of the garage stood a door, behind the door, a room, and in that room were secrets. Locked away with only him and the stale air of the garage's workshop, those secrets grew, multiplied like mould in the dark, and he had a place where his wife would not disturb him; she left him to his business, and without her knowledge his rotten secrets, only coming out when he wanted her there. The man even installed a state-of-the-art security system for the entire property, including the garage, which came with intercoms; often, he would simply call his wife on the intercom to let her know it was fine to bring him
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Back over under the Canopy and its branchy cover, Tommy and Brian stopped in an inlet of trees and alder bush. They were scared. Still, the boys were beyond determined to be done with the whole situation. Only trouble was neither of them, with all their heart, wanted to relinquish their hold on the money, those pieces of jewelry, all of that. Even as all the trouble of the world might perilously be wavering only inches above their heads, like one of those cartoons were an anvil hangs on a thread about the coyote's head, all Brian or Tom managed to see were the endless possibilities the contents of that bag could provide them; the images of a future path different than their own dominated them, overthrew those young and impressionable minds.“We could just toss the duffel bag in the woods someplace,” Brian remarked; half sure of himself, half kidding himself.The look gave his friend spoke enough on its own.“This is fucked up.”“We can't just get rid of it – not now,” Tom told him.“Y
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Then, Staunch saw the wide birch shooting up near the lake's edge. His heart pumped in short bursts, rapid, and then short, slow again; a combination of nervous fear and the traces of meth still beating around in his brain. Alex stepped ahead of Staunch, who straddled behind wanting to stay but needing to follow. The hole sat only feet away now, closer with each and every stumble. Any minute now they would be right upon it. Stopped for a breath, frozen even in the pulsing rays of daylight, Staunch collected his emotions, his swollen and frayed nerves like wounded and exposed electrical wires, and he caught up to Alex . The two men stepped in around the birch alongside one another, with its hollowed middle, and Alex knelt, no words, at the edge of a roughly bore hole in the muggy earth; a hole where once they deposited all their stolen goods, a hole now empty, void.“Why'd you push me in the fuckin' trees like that?”“I just told ya,” Brian said, “there were people comin' and I di
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The car parked a few lengths away from them. Two men got out of the driver and passenger sides; they looked normal mostly. One man – tall, tattooed and fairly muscular, the type who spends his free time lifting weights and self-obsessing over the tone of their muscles, bronzed and starved to death – went to the trunk, as the other – smaller, not much, than the other, and with the look of still being in high school due to his teenage way of dressing, but donning a cane in one hand, limping considerably and aching from an obvious back injury – looked to be moving slowly towards Alex and Staunch. They both walked towards the waiting Firebird.Staunch and Alex each got out and greeted the men.The smaller one extended a hand. “You Alex ?” He shook Alex 's hand. Turning to Staunch he asked, “And that must make you – what's it – Stench?”Alex cackled a dry couching laugh. “It's Staunch, actually.”“Shit, sorry.”Staunch looked calm, but underneath a volcano boiled, bubbled fierce in
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Brian understood. He knew now, and along really, what Tommy felt wasn't a mental illness, a real delusion making him paranoid and insane; they both felt it, in different ways. It was the yearning for a new and different life instead of the shit existence they'd both experience up until now. While Brian and Tommy tried to create their own identities and shape the future of their lives, no matter how savagely they fought to do so, they were and always would be inhibited by the families which gave them life, shackled to a dirty destiny. Their parents each were destructive and heartless people; more concerned with their own lives and failed expectations and schemes than bothering to worry about the tiny, lonely humans they created from thin air, leaving them to grow into ungardened plants with no discernible paths ahead of them aside from anguish, despair, torment, and days on this wretched earth long and hard as the road to Hell.This gauntlet of living is what truly made Tommy lie and c
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Brian decided it best to save his breath for the walk out from the station, especially considering Tommy planned to dig in three different places all around the area. He kept seeing more money, enough to dive into like Scrooge McDuck, and the thought made everything else fade away.But Brian's conscience, the well of his soul, wouldn't let him rest comfortably. He knew letting Tommy's delusion go on was risky; for days on days now, near a week, Tom has talked of nothing aside from the treasure, pirates, and all the like, and it slowly consumed his sanity, each day that passed. He kept on letting Tom pursue the dream of a legend that most likely was not true, in the slightest, and his spying conscience eyed him, judging, and made him feel as if his entire body were slowly being torn into quarters, drawn by horses, his every fibre wrenched in pain. Yet nothing stopped Brian. He certainly made no real efforts to curb Tommy's lust for treasure hunting.He went on watching Tom, who took hi
