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Epilogue: The Unwritten Line
The sun was burning bright. It wasn't. Doing anything fancy. It just kept burning.CHUG-CHUG-CHUG.The sound of the radiator block in our sedan was humming along. It was a second-hand block and it was making a nice noise. We were driving down a road and it was the only sound we needed. It wasn't a beat from a book or a machine. It was a car running on real gasoline moving down the road. The tires weren't getting stuck in the mist.My arm was in the sun. It was warm. The gray lines on my forearm were just plain skin now. They were a bit rough. They were silent. The sun was hot. It was noon."Where are we going next?" Maeve asked. She was sitting in the passenger seat. Her boots were on the dashboard. She was looking out the window at the palm trees."Wherever the road takes us " I said. My hand was on the wheel. I was just driving.The dashboard wasn't showing us any coordinates. The radio wasn't playing any warnings. We didn't have any suspense or drama. The writer had stopped
Chapter 221: The Baseline Tarmac
The market didn't stay quiet for long.BEEP-BEEP!A big yellow bus slammed on its brakes two inches from our crumpled rear bumper. The driver leaned out the window. Slapped the side of his door. "Hey move this car out of the way friend! You're blocking the line!"like that the surprise of our sudden arrival wore off. The hundreds of people staring at us went back to their goods, arguments and morning routines. The strange strong pull of the four outlines disappeared into the bustle of a Sunday morning in Akure.I opened my door. Stepped out my boots landing on the dry dusty gravel at the edge of the asphalt. The air smelled like woodsmoke, roasted corn and real earth. It didn't smell like ink, graphite or old paper all."We need to get this car off the road " I said, looking over the hood where the radiator was still hissing a little steam.Elara stepped out from the passenger side her canvas jumpsuit fitting right in with the mechanics and drivers working near the market square. She
Chapter 220: The Crowd
The transition was not what I expected. It did not feel like ink on my tongue. Instead it was like dust and exhaust fumes.THUD.Our heavy sedan slammed down onto the asphalt. The dark violet fluid that had filled our lungs was suddenly gone, replaced by the humid air of a real morning. The glare from the windshield was not a lamp or an underwater glow. It was the harsh Nigerian sun breaking over the horizon.The silence that followed was absolute.I sat frozen in the passenger seat my mechanics jumpsuit still stained with grease and soot. It was completely dry. Through the windshield I saw the market square of the Abusoro Centre. It was vibrant and full of life. The stalls were piled high with peppers, stacks of printed fabric and yams. Rows of buses idled along the curb their tailpipes sputtering blue smoke into the air.There were no roofs or floating papers here. The stalls were real. The people were real too. The traders, the drivers, the school children. They had all stopped wha
Chapter 219: The Iron Piston
The sound of the water was not loud it was like a heartbeat. It was like someone was pounding on a drum. THUMP-CHUG. The dark water was moving in waves. The big machine under the market clock tower was starting to work. The machine was covered in iron. It had big gears and rollers. These rollers were making shadows in the water. Every time the machine moved it was pushing water up from the floor of the market. This was making a current that was going up to the surface.Our vehicle was like an animal. It was made of gold and iron. It was also a broken car. The current was pulling us up. The gold jaws of the vehicle were trying to grab something. They were not working. We were moving past the roofs of the market stalls. The golden mark on my arm was getting hot. It was so hot that it was boiling the water around it. I could see the bubbles rising up."Mikhail! The rollers!" I heard Elaras voice. She was talking to me from inside the vehicle. Her voice was not clear because of the water.
Chapter 218: The Submerged Market
The concrete didn't fall down. It actually floated up.SPLASH.The moment the gold and iron jaws of our vehicle broke the mechanics platform the alarm lever didn't just drop. It snapped the string holding the ceilings structure together. The huge concrete roof of the garage split open with a deep liquid groan.. Instead of daylight or the dusty air of the Abusoro Centre market square rushing in a heavy silent weight hit us.A deep dark violet ocean of ink flooded in through the breach.It didn't crash like a tidal wave. It poured in with a slow gravity instantly swallowing the glare of the thousand gray sedans. The blinding high beams were muffled into underwater lanterns. Their amber light turned a murky purple as the fluid filled the structure."Hold your breath!" Maeve’s voice was cut short. The dark liquid surged over the sedans frame filling the cabin with a cold dense pressure. It tasted faintly of copper and charcoal paper.Our half-car half-beast didn't drown. The gold-plated i
Chapter 217: The Iron Forge
The hood burst open with a rip, like old paper tearing apart.CRUNCH—The white paint on the sedans frame cracked down the middle as a huge metal jaw made of gold-plated iron and bone teeth shot out through the engine. The golden liquid from the shore wasn't oil or paint—it was a melted fluid that broke the radiator sending a cloud of scalding steam right into the mechanics face.The powerful jaws snapped shut in mid-air the bone teeth crushing the iron bar in two with a crack.SNAP.The man in the apron stumbled back dropping the handle of the tire iron on the concrete floor. The deep purple liquid leaking from the broken metal didn't stain the ground; it was instantly sucked into the furnace of the creatures jaw sizzling away into nothing."The Chimera didn't disappear " I growled, my hands flying off the steering wheel as the dashboard cracked in half. The golden emblem on my arm flared with a blinding light that matched the beasts furnace. "It just changed its form to fit the gara
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