Beating Hearts (job/Plot)

job:

Ustad the budding architect had found himself inside the house of people he had yet to meet in order to repair it to it’s former glory since they neglected it and let it fall into disrepair. For most this would be seen as a home intrusion or a break in but for the architect, consequences of his actions were not something currently on his mind or even important enough for him to pay much attention to. This was not because he saw himself above the law in some sort of superiority complex more so he did not see the reason for such laws if they were to get in his way for architecture itself. He was positive that if those who were tasked with enforcing the commandments of this country saw the state of this residency before he started operating on it that they would agree. Such a disgrace to architecture itself could not stand.

So he had decided to take up the burden of fixing the home himself, though he did not see it as such. In fact he took great pride in this type of labor and was tasked to do it quite often during his apprenticeship he had during to stay in the coastal city of Balbadd.

He had already tasked himself with fixing the roof as well as several of the walls on the interior of the dwelling. He was currently helping himself to some food he had found in the home while he was taking a break before fixing the last problem with this magnificent structure. He had found a particularly loose floorboard in the back corner of one of the smaller rooms. This was not as compromising of a problem as the roof and walls were but was something that personally annoyed the architect and construction worker known as Ustad. So once he was done with the menial grub he forced down his gullet he would move on towards fixing that floorboard.

He had his hammer in his hand and out use the clawed end of it to dig into the side of the floorboard, using the leverage of the handle to pry it with great ease. It turned out the board was not even properly placed into the floor but was just resting in the place as there was something underneath that prevented it from being set properly. He would look and find that whoever the owners were had placed small individual cloth bags underneath the long board. These bags were all fairly small, no more than a foot in length but there were quite a few of them, enough to equal a nice sizable pile as he dug them out. They were even under some of the other boards it would turn out. He did not open them since it was not his business but could tell that there must have been some kind of meat that had gone rancid for there was a smell of festering flesh heavy in the air and the bags were covered in dry blood.

Ustad would frown as we went to toss them out for he was worried that the insects crawling all around and the mold on the bag would ruin the floor itself and would even get some hot water as he cleans the area underneath before placing the floorboard back in place and hammering it so that it would no longer be loose.

While he was working on this there would be a loud bang as the front door was shut.

500+/500 WC