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The Book of the New Moon Door: Part Two, Chapter Twenty-Five

Faithful

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 Isabel’s feet hit the ground, sending a shock from her heels into her knees and all the way to the joints of her hips. The palms of her hands burn as she removes them from the coarse linen sheet and exposes them to the air. A pair of raw patches marks each one, livid red where the skin has peeled away. 

She looks back up toward the window. She could have fallen much, much farther. The improvised rope drifts in the afternoon breeze, its end brushing against the street. Berend’s face is framed in cut stone before he moves away from the window and disappears. 

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Its clothes are rags, filthy with grave dust, and one of its eyes is a hollow socket. Yellowed bones show through both bare forearms.

It is very dead, and it isn’t alone.

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The Book of the New Moon Door: Part Two, Chapter Twenty-Four

Barricade

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Berend watches the window. He shouldn’t; he should be fortifying the doors, maybe figuring out some way to get Warder out of the direct path of danger. The nurse’s stockinged feet touch the ground, and she takes off running up the street. Isabel’s climb is slower, the soles of her boots scraping against the masonry wall and her arms unsteady. Berend checks the knots again. 

The younger nurse approaches the door to the hall, one hand on the pair of shears in her pocket. She puts her ear to the door and listens. 

“One of the doors is broken, but they can’t get through yet,” she says.

Her companion, a woman of about thirty with pale yellow curls escaping her cap, pushes past her and turns the latch. “Not yet. Soon, though.”

“Should we barricade the door in here?” asks the first. “What about the other patients?”

“We can’t just leave them,” argues the second. 

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He’s got nothing against the gods. He fought in one of their names for years. But they take their own sweet time to get around to helping their faithful, and he’d much rather rely on tangible things that work on schedule. Such as a firearm.

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The battering on the doors has grown more insistent, an arrhythmic roll of a huge, flat drum. A trickle of old blood, embalming fluid, and gods know what else creeps underneath the nearer side. Isabel can smell them, the unmistakable miasma of rot, sickness, and cold, damp earth.

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Berend and Isabel’s day continues to get worse. You can have a little zombie apocalypse, as a treat, by reading this chapter on Patreon.

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“It’s just a minor breach in the cold rooms,” the black-haired nurse says. “We’ve sent for a priest of Ondir. Everything is perfectly safe. You’ll just have to wait for a while.”

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Do you think you’re blameless? That it was only your research partner who was at fault? I should fetch the city watch to chain you to this bed.

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Berend and Isabel confront the inventor Lucian Warder in the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door, now available on Patreon.

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“You’re a necromancer. I’m a Sentinel. I’m sure you’ve read enough history to know what was going to happen.”

“You were a Sentinel,” Geray snarls.

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Berend and Isabel’s brief respite is plagued by the still-present ghost of a murderer in the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door. You can read it now on Patreon.

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Berend scowls. “Tell him I don’t care what he thinks. He thought that hacking people apart would make the gods notice him, and where did that get him?”

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Berend and Isabel’s very brief respite comes to an end as they receive strange news. There’s also the ghost of a serial killer hanging around. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon!

Also, in case you missed it (or I am misremembering mentioning it, which is possible): Part Two has twenty-six chapters, and I’ll be starting work on the third and final part after the new year.

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And now here he is, hiding out in a student’s apartment, having angered one of the most powerful families in Mondirra, while the dead threaten to outnumber the living.

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Berend and Isabel seek sanctuary and find it in an unlikely place in the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door. You can read this chapter right now by subscribing to my Patreon, or you can wait until next week when it’ll be available for free here.