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Hidden Treasures

Cavan Scott

Elias didn’t know what he hated more: this dark stinking hole or his brother for making him come down here. He wished they’d never discovered the place.

They’d been hiding from the Kerlons. They were always hiding from the Kerlons, the bloodiest gang in Manos City. It had been his brother’s fault, as always. Marco had crossed a line, stealing from a Kerlon-protected store. He hadn’t even needed the food. He did it to get a reaction, to prove what a big man he was.

He hadn’t looked so big cringing in the dark, snot running over a bloodied lip.

Then they had seen it, glinting in what little light filtered through the hole in the ceiling.

The first treasure.

Elias swore as his elbow scraped against the stone wall. This was the last time, he promised himself. The last time he’d let Marco bully him into coming down here with the vermin and the shadows and Throne knew what.

He didn’t care what he’d find or how much money it would bring. Nothing was worth this. Nothing.

Something scuttled over his hand as he squeezed through the gap in the wall of the back room. He snatched it back sharply. The building was a shell, too derelict for even vagrants to make shelter. But that wasn’t the worst of it.

The walls felt wrong. He couldn’t explain it. They were cold, covered in muck and mould, but there was something else. Something deeper. They felt rotten. Diseased. The air itself felt sick.

His feet dangling into the void of the cellar below, Elias eased himself through and hung for a minute, half tempted to pull himself back up and run; away from Marco, away from everything.

Who was he kidding? Marco would kill him, brother or not.

He closed his eyes and let himself fall.

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