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Live and Let Drood

Live and Let Drood

Titel: Live and Let Drood Kostenlos Bücher Online Lesen
Autoren: Simon R. Green
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undiscovered tomb. And, no, I don’t know whose. There are still quite a few undiscovered tombs buried deep under the shifting sands, ready to be dug up.…And given some of the things the old-time pharaohs had to bury or imprison—everything from djinn with bad attitudes to animal-headed gods that had got a bit above themselves—it’s probably just as well that no one’s found them.”
    Molly looked at me for a while, realised that I’d said all I was going to say on the subject and gave me one of her looks.
    “You really do get on my tits, sometimes, Eddie. You know that? We’re here somewhere, in someone’s tomb, looking for something.…I’ll bet my sister Isabella knows more about this place than you do. More than your whole family, probably.”
    “I wouldn’t doubt it,” I said generously.
    Molly sniffed and looked about her, trying to find something worth looking at. “Isabella would love this. Much more her thing than mine. Louisa; who can say? Wait a minute.…Did you say deep underneath the Valley of the Kings ? How deep, exactly?”
    “Probably best not to think about it,” I said.
    I stepped up to one of the bare, featureless walls and studied it carefully. Molly moved in beside me, holding the witchlight up to give me better lighting. I moved quickly along the wall, searching for Drood sign. Dust was falling from the ceiling in slow steady streams. Almost certainly not a good sign.
    “I still don’t see anything,” said Molly. “No hieroglyphics. No loweroglyphics. Not even any Egyptian graffiti, like Cleopatra does it with ducks. And I certainly don’t see any trace of a very useful Drood item. I don’t know what your family left here, Eddie, but it is clearly long gone. Somebody else got here first and beat you to it.”
    “Not necessarily,” I said. “According to what my uncle Jack told me, this chamber was deliberately left empty, to give just the impression you’ve described. To discourage anyone who might have stumbled on our secret location. Now…if I remember correctly…”
    I went over the whole wall, studying it from top to bottom, through the expanded and augmented Sight of my golden face mask. Top to bottom and side to side, and then on to the next wall. Where a brief flash of light finally caught my golden eye; a sign left for Droods to see. I leaned in closer and there, barely halfway up the wall, a small but very significant sign had been delicately carved into the rough stone. I gestured to Molly and she squeezed in beside me. She picked out the sign even faster than I had. Molly’s a first-class witch, and she’s always been able to See more than me when it comes to the hidden world.
    “Is there a curse attached?” she said suddenly. “There ought to be a curse attached. You know, something like, ‘Death shall come on swift wings to all those who seek to steal that which belongs to Droods!’ That sort of thing…”
    “Almost certainly not,” I said.
    “Ought to be a curse,” said Molly, pouting. “It’s not proper tomb robbing unless there’s a curse involved.”
    “We are not tomb robbing!” I said. “We are simply recovering something that my family happened to leave here long ago. For safekeeping. Now, there should be a second stone chamber, right next to this one. On the other side of this wall.”
    I armoured up my right arm from shoulder to fingertip. The golden metal slipped down from my torc and encased my whole arm in just a moment. I was getting used to the cold. Hardly shuddered at all. I flexed the fingers of my golden gauntlet. I felt strong, capable, ready for anything. Like I could punch a hole through steel plate, never mind an old stone wall. Molly looked at me thoughtfully.
    “Why aren’t you wearing your complete armour, Eddie? Normally, you can’t wait to slip the whole thing on and do your superhero thing. So why settle for just the one arm now? Eddie, are you afraid of your new armour?”
    “No,” I said immediately. “I’m just concerned that a display of Drood power in such an out-of-the-way place might draw unwanted attention. I don’t want anyone knowing we’re here.”
    “Are you back to that unseen-watchers bit?” said Molly. “We are not at home to Mr. Paranoia! Who could possibly know we’re here?”
    “Good question,” I said grimly.
    I turned away from her and struck the stone wall a good solid blow, and my golden fist punched right through the stone and out the other side. Molly cheered and

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