"So what are they even digging for?" Hanging around chained to a wall because I just wanted to run away seemed excessive. The other dudes down there looked mostly well as they were acquaintances of the sick who had figured out this was some kind of sick work camp and tried to leave and failed like I had. Well I hadn't really tried, these guys had and from the wounds they bore they suffered for it.
"They are digging for the spring of life." It was an older man, he had a beard that was getting mid chest length showing he'd been there a while or he liked looking older than he was.
"That seems ridiculous." Digging for a spring makes kind of sense, but then it doesn't make any sense doing it on a frigging island, which should have been a clue to me this wasn't a natural spring at all. Or in theory it wasn't a natural spring, it wasn't like they had dug up anything other than misery in the six month's they'd been running this scam on the infirm.
"I think they are actually digging for something else." A younger man with a shorter beard who had a mark across his chest from some ugly weapon spoke up. There was some rumble amongst the five of us as people talked over each other trying to say what they were actually doing.
"Quiet gods one at a time." I swear people just naturally want to argue even over things that are directly in their face. And that's my gods damned job.
"Something is buried on this island, and whenever someone gets close to digging it up something bad gets them, its why they are using our loved ones because they are sick and dying anyway." It was a great plan I'll admit. For a moment I recalled my recent foray into treasure hunting and wondered if I had anything to do with this island (thankfully no).
"Well I'm glad I'm chained up down here then." They all scoffed for a moment and then the old man spoke.
"You think they don't have us do something? Son we're the men they send in to check out what's left after someone digs something up."
"Oh well shit that's not good." I was quickly discovering this was the worst trip ever.
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