Tuesday Tales - Write

Welcome to Tuesday Tales! This week's word prompt is “write”. We are back with Dani in my new Sci-Fi story. 

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The binding of the books he read over and over was as familiar to him as his own skin. That wasn’t a good thing. He had been studying Egyptian archeology since he was ten, not long after his disappearance. At this point, he could write his own novel without stepping foot in a dig site. 

To be honest, Grarkiel researched it through him. To this day, his personal parasite never told him why. He and the other voices in his head told him to shut it and mind himself. Then Grarkiel usually caused him some sort of excruciating pain. 

Ezra quickly learned to stop asking questions after that, 

He scowled as he ran his fingers across the smooth, glossy, somewhat wrinkled dust covers a third time. A few of them were only enough to have wear spots on them, 

There were some missing. All of them were the ones he was working with last night. He let out a huff then chuckled to himself. 

Of course. Someone probably found them lying on the floor and put them on a cart to be reshelved later. If anyone could find them, it would be Elise. She could find anything in the old building. 

Ezra trudged his way back to the circulation and forced another grin on his face. The one Elise returned was more than likely genuine, “Can I help you with something?” she asked.

“I apologize,” he began. “I left a pile of books on the floor yesterday. I forgot I had an appointment. Could you see where they might be?”

“Do you have the author or the titles?”

“Yeah, hang on.” Ezra reached his hand around him and slipped it into the back pocket of his jeans, he tugged out a folded piece of paper. He carefully unwrapped it and handed it to Elise. He hoped and prayed she didn’t read the notes in the margins. It would be crazy talk to her. 

He reached over the counter and pointed to a row of type. “That one.”

“Okay. Let me look it up.” She typed on the keyboard for a few seconds. Her brows knitted as she stopped. “It’s been checked out.”

“By who?”

“I’m not supposed to give out that information.” She paused. “However, you could probably ask when she will be done with them. Dani has them.”

Ezra swallowed hard as his heart plummeted into his stomach. He could already hear Grarkiel growling in his brain. “Thanks. If I see her, I will ask.” 

He gave Elise a brief wave as we walked back towards his familiar corridor. He barely made it past a shelf when Grarkiel snarled against his eardrum. “Kill her. Bring her to me and I will feast on her.”