The Maze and the Maw: The Tales of the Chai Makhani Trio - Episode 2
By Kate MacLeod
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With the tavern where he works as well as life as he knows it literally on fire, Elyot takes the only possible way out. Down into the sewers that lead deeper into the catacombs.
No one knows for sure what lurks in the depths. But every child knows the stories.
He just wants to lead his new companions Keani and Alextra to safety. But with the enforcers dogging their steps and the caverns themselves conspiring to drive the three ever deeper, any hope for safety vanishes. The three know what the enforcers intend.
But what lurks in the deep? Just might be worse.
"The Maze and the Maw" is the second episode in the ongoing monthly science fiction adventure serial TALES OF THE CHAI MAKHANI TRIO.
Kate MacLeod
Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.
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THE MAZE AND THE MAW
THE TALES OF THE CHAI MAKHANI TRIO: EPISODE 2
KATE MACLEOD
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THE MAZE AND THE MAW
Elyot hadn't realized how hot the air inside the burning tavern had gotten until the moment the blessedly cool water splashed up all around him. It was like a healing balm against his nearly blistering skin, soothing tortured nerve endings as it washed over him.
But it wasn't very deep. He still had a lot of momentum when one foot hit bottom then slipped, his bare ankle scraping across the rock even as it twisted painfully under his weight. He splashed face-first into the water, quickly righting himself but not before getting a generous mouthful of the stuff.
The foul, green-tasting stuff. The smell had been horrid from above. It was even worse down at the bottom, as if the odor had settled thickly here, undisturbed for centuries, growing more rancid with time.
But the smell was nothing compared to the taste. Elyot heaved again and again, desperate to be sure he swallowed not a bit of it. But without a drink of something fresher, there was no way to get the thick layer off his tongue, no way to stop tasting the foulness of it.
It was like someone else had been sick in his mouth after eating rancid meat and really old cheese. Just the thought had him heaving again.
He hoped the burning sensation that ran up his ankle wasn't a gash from the rocky bottom. The idea of an open wound in that water was too much to bear.
At last, he managed to stop heaving and was once more aware of the world around him. It was too dark to see more than the occasional reflection of the fire above on the waist-deep water around him, but the sounds of splashes as the two girls moved around echoed in a way that spoke of a very narrow space. The barman who had first shown him the hatch had told him it led down into the catacombs, and if Elyot didn't keep out of the way when the barman was working Mama Scotti would throw him down there and let the monsters have him, and not even Elyot's mother would be able to save him.
Elyot had never thought to ask in the intervening years what the hatch was actually for. He had assumed some prior owner had been a smuggler, but he doubted