{"id":1391,"date":"2010-03-10T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:04:54","slug":"crawlers-sneak-peek-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"CRAWLERS &#8211; sneak peek part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CRAWLERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sam Enthoven<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A preview extract, with exclusive art by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamland2009.co.uk\/\">Malcolm Harrison<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">words (c) Sam Enthoven \/ visuals (c) Malcolm Harrison 2010. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click here for previous parts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1371\">1<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1379\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Part 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Miller shrieked<\/strong> &#8211; a short, high note, his voice driven to that pitch by absolute terror.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1392\" title=\"Crawlers3EyebyMalcolmHarrison\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crawlers3Eye-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"Crawlers3EyebyMalcolmHarrison\" width=\"649\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crawlers3Eye-1024x715.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crawlers3Eye-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shriek stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Then <strong>I spoke through his mouth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I . . . like this one, Steadman.&#8217; The words were husky and thick at first as I worked the unfamiliar vocal cords. &#8216;He&#8217;s young. Healthy. Much better than the sickly things you usually bring me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A treat for you, my Queen,&#8217; said Steadman. &#8216;And he&#8217;s just the first of many. As of now, you no longer have to make do with those dregs I can steal from the streets without anyone noticing. As of this moment, you can take anyone you want.&#8217; He paused, then said: <strong>&#8216;You are free<\/strong>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-Click here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1403\">Part 4<\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAWLERS by Sam Enthoven A preview extract, with exclusive art by Malcolm Harrison words (c) Sam Enthoven \/ visuals (c) Malcolm Harrison 2010. All rights reserved. Click here for previous parts: 1 , 2 Part 3 Mr Miller shrieked &#8211; a short, high note, his voice driven to that pitch by absolute terror. The shriek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}