Bad to the Throne (The Good Guys #15)

by Eric Ugland

couldn’t stop thinking about that stupid nest of Nadelzahnwurms. On the one hand, whomever drew the map for Albrecht planned on me going right through it. Which could have been a trap to kill me, or if I went with the positive spin, an attempt to have me deal with the problem for them. I didn’t need a side-quest — the fishing rod was my side-quest. Rest and relaxation were the themes of this stupid trip to Romainmont. Not seek out a nest of monsters to eradicate to benefit a community that had been pretty shit to me. And yet… there was a bad thing endangering the people here, and it probably wouldn’t be that big of an issue for me to handle. Once again the question came up: was ignoring a problem I could fix as bad as me causing the problem? I wanted to say no, but I also knew it wasn’t that simple. How would I feel if someone’s dog got eaten by whatever these things were? How about a kid…? “Fuuuuuck,” I said, turning around, trudging back toward Romainmont.

I feel that.