Help Needed Identifying a Book
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:00 am
Several years ago--the mid-2000s maybe--I remember reading (or having read to me) a book. I don't remember what it was about or what it was called. I just remember one character clearly:
The Custodian
As I recall, the main character--perhaps a young man; it was probably young adult fiction--was traveling with a group of other people, and they had to cross through an underground area. To help them navigate, they dealt with the Custodian. It appeared to be a human man, but it had mechanical, spider-like legs which folded into a slot in its back. It escorted them in its own unnerving way for a good chunk of their journey, then some dynamic shifted. It snatched up the main character, but retaliation from the others made it let him go and scurry off down a sheer cliff, never to be seen again.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? It has been driving me nuts for years.
The Custodian
As I recall, the main character--perhaps a young man; it was probably young adult fiction--was traveling with a group of other people, and they had to cross through an underground area. To help them navigate, they dealt with the Custodian. It appeared to be a human man, but it had mechanical, spider-like legs which folded into a slot in its back. It escorted them in its own unnerving way for a good chunk of their journey, then some dynamic shifted. It snatched up the main character, but retaliation from the others made it let him go and scurry off down a sheer cliff, never to be seen again.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? It has been driving me nuts for years.