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Pallid Scavengers on a Necrotic Husk

from Pallid Scavengers on a Necrotic Husk by Huntress of Stars

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I’ve only once or twice seen his face on screens around the mine, telling us he values our service while he smiles like a snake.
Yet I’ve heard the foremen fearfully whisper to the overseers about “the boss.”
What I know is that the men who subject us to the lash do so on his behalf
So I’ve believed forever that if I could get in here and put a bullet in his head it would solve every one of our problems. The foremen, they’d have no power behind them. We could rise up against them if the boss who runs the show was dead.
But now, standing in the entrance to the boss’s fortress at the center of the city, that same sterile feeling of unlife permeates the air.
Machines rush around, but still no living beings. I see no evidence of anyone as I make my way from room to room, steel drawn, before finally happening upon what I seek.
A gilded room with an ornate wooden desk. Shelves of books and cabinets of paper, a scale model of the mines on a table and a giant safe built into the wall, and yet.
Slumped at the desk was a long rotted corpse still dressed in its regal finery.
A machine enters with a cup on a silver tray and delivers it to the desk in front of the corpse.
Yet, I’ve heard the foremen fearfully whisper to the overseers about “the boss”
Is it that the men who subject us to the lash do so on this dead man’s behalf?
I stumble out of the office, still searching for answers. I wander into a side room and find a pile of bodies, clad in rich man’s clothes, stacked with precision and tended to by robots who serve them drinks, even as they rot.
Finally, I see it clearly: the boss and his cronies? Long dead.
But the machines they built perpetually whirr.
There’s no one in charge who I can kill to make it stop.
As forever we labor below to serve their moribund engine.
Pallid scavengers on a necrotic husk

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from Pallid Scavengers on a Necrotic Husk, released October 5, 2023

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