Like many such things the flaw in the metal wall seemed glaringly obvious once it had been pointed out to her, but her rational mind knew she might have walked by it a hundred times without noticing it. Up close the wall was even more intimidating, adding to its sheer size the frighteningly gnarled tangle of its twisted metal. It was a structure that was designed not just to keep people out, but to reward their attempts to get in with twisted, uneven wounds, the perfect kind to attract gangrene and slow death. Looking at the narrow opening, itself a ragged scar in the structure, she felt she had a better idea of why she had been given her task. She was short, thin, and limber enough to get through the opening without being wounded. Probably.
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-One
Like many such things the flaw in the metal wall seemed glaringly obvious once it had been pointed out to her, but her rational mind knew she might have walked by it a hundred times without noticing it. Up close the wall was even more intimidating, adding to its sheer size the frighteningly gnarled tangle of its twisted metal. It was a structure that was designed not just to keep people out, but to reward their attempts to get in with twisted, uneven wounds, the perfect kind to attract gangrene and slow death. Looking at the narrow opening, itself a ragged scar in the structure, she felt she had a better idea of why she had been given her task. She was short, thin, and limber enough to get through the opening without being wounded. Probably.