Slowly he crawled across the floor, sightless, using his other senses. He didn’t have the strength to seek a larger form—a more complex name. He slid across the cold stone floor until he came up against the solid mass of the head, and he began to slither upward. He didn’t stop until he’d found the ear, and, with a supreme effort, he toppled inside. Once there he crawled deeper as quickly as he could. Exhausted, he rested.
All thought, all function, closed down. He would wait. He would endure. He would return. Nothing mattered but that he return to his geas…his duty. If it took a year, or a century, such things mattered little to him. A final thought—a name—flashed through his thoughts as he passed into darkness.
“Montrovant.”
As he passed into the void, gray-flecked eyes mocked him, and dark laughter pressed around his soul.
About the Author
David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. An ordained minister, once President of the Horror Writers Association and multiple recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, his novels include Maelstrom, The Mote in Andrea’s Eye, Deep Blue, the Grails Covenant Trilogy, Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis, Except You Go Through Shadow, This is My Blood, Ancient Eyes, On the Third Day, The Orffyreus Wheel, The DeChance Chronicles, including Heart of a Dragon, Vintage Soul, My Soul to Keep, Kali’s Tale and the stand-alone spinoff Nevermore – A Novel of Love, Loss & Edgar Allan Poe. His novels in the O.C.L.T. series include The Parting, Crockatiel, and the novella The Temple of Camazotz. He is also the author of the memoir / cookbook American Pies: Baking with Dave the Pie Guy. David can be found at http://www.davidniallwilson.com and can be reached by e-mail at [email protected].
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