The Book of Blood Volume 6 The Last Illusion Part 20

The Book of Blood Volume 6 The Last Illusion Part 20

You're a witness.' 'If you must,' said the Englishman. Deep in his body Cherrick felt the fish-bone he'd first choked on in the village twist itself about one final time, and extinguish him. 'Did he say yes, Dancy?' Tetelman asked. Dancy felt the physical proximity of the brute kneeling beside him. He didn't know what the dead man had said, but what did it matter? Locke would have the land anyway, wouldn't he? 150 'He said yes.' Locke stood up, and went in search of a fresh cup of coffee. Without thinking, Dancy put his fingers on Cherrick's lids to seal his empty gaze. Under that lightest of touches the lids broke open and blood tainted the tears that had swelled where Cherrick's sight had been. They had buried him towards evening. The corpse, though it had lain through the noon-heat in the coolest part of the store, amongst the dried goods, had begun to putrefy by the time it was sewn up in canvas for the burial. The night following, Stump…