Chapter 23 of 26 · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Chapter 23 — Ten sticks of dynamite

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Opening

I pulled the rope back into my inventory while I still hung 15 feet off the ground.

Summary

Out by rope as the building falls; a charred glass case with a stuffed horseman in it, picked up because the system made it glint. Daniel Bautista 2, Tigran swashbuckler, sole survivor of twenty, whose quest they ruined and whose sisters they avenged: 'I owe you a debt.' Donut's theory that the guides hate their jobs; Carl's confession that he would have been a forester.

Ten sticks of dynamite ring the swordsmen's warehouse, Katia holds the detonator against mind control, and half the town watches with scythes. Donut will not stay outside: 'You promised me that I wouldn't die alone.' Up the ladder, past the terracotta guards and a soul crystal: 'Not a lich, Mordecai. Not a fucking lich!'

Characters

• Daniel Bautista — Met; the debt.
• Katia Grim — Holds the boom switch.
• Carl — 'I would work for the forestry service as a forester.'
• Princess Donut — The promise; 'We do this together.'
• Fitz — Raises the night patrol.

Locations

• The swordsmen's warehouse — Wired with dynamite.

Motifs

• The Sheol Glass Reaper Case — Salvaged.
• The stuffed figures — A stuffed horseman tagged Kimaris, in a charred case.
• Explosives — Ten sticks and a hobgoblin pus trigger.