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    King Basilisk's Palace
    King Basilisk's Palace
    King Basilisk's Palace
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    King Basilisk's Palace

    By J. M. McDermott

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    A basilisk king turns prisoners to stone who gaze upon the monster. His servants use these gruesome building blocks to build a palace on the sea.

    Rebecca sails from Antioch in chains, to be turned to stone among other prisoners. Unlike the others, Rebecca is blind, and will never see the king to turn into stone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBad Ducky Industries
    Release dateSep 23, 2011
    ISBN9781466109339
    King Basilisk's Palace
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      King Basilisk's Palace - J. M. McDermott

      King Basilisk’s Palace

      J.M. McDermott

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      Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved

      Smashwords Edition

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      We were headed for King Basilisk’s Palace, and we knew it. All of us knew it. When the boat stopped, we knew.

      The prison ship guards chained us all in a long line before we were brought above deck. I was pulled from my cage and chained up like any of the men. I felt them all – guard, prisoner - pulling on the chains, and all the bodies pulling up and down the line. I heard the weak footsteps of the prisoners. I heard their breathing. I saw only the dark of the prisons.

      The guards were tribesmen from the upper Nile that had followed the river out to sea. They were known to us in the ports of Antioch. I could smell the dirty saltwater of their skin. They reached into my cage, and I could strike at them because of the smell. They didn’t say anything about it that I understood. They barely spoke the languages of the civilized world. One of them knew my name and muttered at me, No, Rebecca… but it sounded wrong to me. When they came below deck to chain us up, they spoke with their whips and their shoves. These were more effective than their mangled words. I was chained up, with the rest of the prisoners. It’s hard to fight back when you’re blind.

      I hadn’t been out of my cage in a month, and I had

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