M is for Myg

Cold. That’s how I felt. Stiff. Lifeless.

But I wasn’t dead yet.

Images from earlier flooded my cranium. A train ride in a foreign city. A mission to uncover a dark secret. An unwelcome encounter and an unlikely ally. Scattered snapshots from a recent past I couldn’t quite call my own.

In my head I was still riding, the hot breeze coming in through open train windows as I made my way Downtown.

I’d had the damn detective on my back for weeks. The more I avoided him, the worse it looked. But there was no way I could face a heavy line of Interpol questioning until I could make sense out of what had happened back there that night. I needed information.

I’d gotten a tip out of a comic about a back room specialty dark knowledge shop where they carry these antique paper things called books. Dude working there was so high on Sec he hardly blinked when I asked for titles on Demon Chiropractic, instead rummaging through stacks in a small room that smelled worse than old lady shoes.

When he couldn’t dig anything up, he went down a trap door. He came out a few minutes later and handed me a piece of paper with a title:

Explicatio Vertebratus Daemonicon

“You want it?” he asked.

“Yeah.”

He let out a long, “I can’t believe the shit I put up with around here” kind of sigh.

“What?”

“Wait here.” He disappeared again and came back with an address. “This book is out of print. You’ll need to go here and hire an archivist to trace you a copy. But it’ll cost you.” He drew himself over the counter towards me. “If I were you, I wouldn’t ask just anybody about that book,” he cautioned.

“As if.”

I hit the train and headed to the address on Gray Street. The subway car looked empty, but it didn’t feel empty. I twisted the paper in my fingers and turned again to see who–what–was there. But there was nothing.

Just me and the hot breeze.

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