{"id":1403,"date":"2010-03-11T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:05:42","slug":"crawlers-sneak-peek-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"CRAWLERS &#8211; sneak peek part 4"},"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> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1391\">3<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Part 4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Free<\/em>. More than <strong>three centuries<\/strong> had passed while I had been held captive in this pit. In the early days Steadman&#8217;s predecessors had kept me here with spiked chains and armed guards. Behind those guards had stood more guards, their weapons trained on the first in case I did what I do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1411\" title=\"Crawlers4ChainsbyMalcolmHarrison\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crawlers4ChainsbyMalcolmHarrison-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Crawlers4ChainsbyMalcolmHarrison\" width=\"333\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crawlers4ChainsbyMalcolmHarrison-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crawlers4ChainsbyMalcolmHarrison-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crawlers4ChainsbyMalcolmHarrison.jpg 1804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, in Mr Steadman&#8217;s time, I heard an echoing hiss and a whine of machinery. As the lid of my pit drew back I allowed myself a moment of triumph. From that first, blazing night when they caught me I had known this day would come. The reason was simple: they had not killed me. Even in <strong>1666<\/strong> the Corporation of London had recognized my . . . gifts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-Click here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1420\">Part 5<\/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 , 3 Part 4 Free. More than three centuries had passed while I had been held captive in this pit. In [&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\/1403"}],"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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}