The Drowned Bishop's Cryptex
Cryptex puzzle
Deadly
By
Bookwyrm
A green-crusted bronze cryptex with seven numbered rings, pulled from a flooded crypt.
Seawater has eaten the bronze to a mottled green. Seven rings of numerals still turn, gritty with sand, and a verse is scratched along the barrel in a shaking hand.
Water still weeps from the seams.