Sultry: Another Country Heard From
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 15
Sultry: Another country heard from: 15
Eva was de-bundled ... unwrapped, untied and debagged. After tea and a 'little something' she asked, "What happened to Hero Alfred?"
Well, that question gave them all pause...
"Oh ... Him ... the dead guy. Someone stuck an arrow in him." At least that's the information Eva gleaned from the several statements made in response to 'What happened to Al?'
"Who stuck him?" she asked.
"Got no idea," said Sultry, "He was shot in the back and we didn't look ... and then he was gone ... no reference to where the shooter was because we didn't have a body."
Sultry had a notion that there might be the possibility that Alfred might have been eliminated because he knew who was conspiring to kill the heroic template. Sounds like a Socialist agenda to me. Like 'No Child Left Behind.' Nobody is special ... the sheeple really are created equal. Get rid of those who excel ... they make the rest feel bad ... that kind of thing. Cursive is too difficult ... printing is fine. Who needs Farmers? We get our food from the supermarket ... like we always have. They teach that crap in college. "Whoever it was might have been trying for me," she told Eva. "I was up on his back milliseconds before the arrow struck."
"Cassie?"
"Sultry?"
"Go with Eva, I can't guarantee your safety."
"But..."
"Cassie ... go home. I have a trail to follow. I need to be alone." She set the watch.
The hunt became more complicated. The trail led from pillar to post, through a myriad of occupied planets and moons. Everywhere she went, there were obstacles and traitors and sheeple. And everywhere she went, there were presidents, rulers, kings and queens, all doing their absolute best to eliminate the Heroic Archetype.
Skamandrios was an inhabited airless, but formerly volcanic moon of the planet Hera in the Athena system orbiting around the star Hephaestus in the Andromeda cluster of the spiral galaxy Hecate.
As an airless moon the beings that settled there were tunnelers and created a vast system of passageways and chambers. Every clue had led straight to this place. Transferring from Cassandrian Portals to the planets ... and dimensions ... and back again, had been a lesson is the vastness of the plot. Hundreds of nations and billions of sheeple had been led to this place.