The Drawing of the Three
Dark Tower IV
Chapter One
BENEATH THE
DEMON MOON (I)
1
The town of Candleton was a poisoned and irradiated ruin, but not dead; after
all the centuries it still twitched with tenebrous life-trundling beetles the
size of turtles, birds that looked like small, misshapen dragonlets, a few
stumbling robots that passed in and out of the rotten buildings like stainless
steel zombies, their joints squalling, their nuclear eyes flickering.
"Show your pass, pard!" cried the one that had been stuck in a corner of the
lobby of the Candleton Travellers' Hotel for the last two hundred and thirty-
four years. Embossed on the rusty lozenge of its head was a six-pointed star. It
had over the years managed to dig a shallow concavity in the steel-sheathed wall
blocking its way, but that was all.
"Show your pass, pard! Elevated radiation levels possible south and east of
town! Show your pass, pard! Elevated radiation levels possible south and east of
town!"
A bloated rat, blind and dragging its guts behind it in a sac like a rotten
placenta, struggled over the posse ... read full excerpt from: Wizard and Glass: (The Dark Tower #4)(Revised Edition) ebook
