(eng) Michael Paul Gonzalez by Angel Falls (v5.0)

Author:Angel Falls (v5.0) [Falls, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Out of the room, up the stairs, frantically trying to find Goliath, Eve, and Monkey. I needed to study the Mirror of Smoke, see what it was and what made it tick. See if I could turn it against Yaotl.

“What did you see in there?” Lenny asked. He clutched my forearm like a bizarre parrot.

“In where?”

“The red doorway.”

“You saw that?”

“I saw you tumble into your anima crystal.”

“I thought I was just getting my power back, but something tried to break me. It was him. Yaotl!”

“You fought him off?”

“I’m here, aren’t I? I started to fight back, but something distracted him. A voice. And then you reached in. What happened while I was gone?”

“I saw something charging for you through the Mirror. I think by standing in front of it, I hid you long enough to distract whatever it was.”

“What happened then?”

“I saw the crystal floating, saw you sinking into blackness. I did the only thing I could think of, jumped in and made a grab for it. Nin-Agal caught me by the hair before I got sucked in. And the crystal just kind of…ate you? The power shot through me, out of me and back into you. Everything flared red, you came back from the crystal, and Nin-Agal’s heart exploded. Hence the blood.”

“Hence the blood. Well, you know, thanks, I guess.”

A loud crack shook the hallway and rust flakes began to snow down from the ceiling. We kept running until we passed into Nin-Agal’s forges. All of the fires had gone out and the vats were growing cold. So the Smithgod was well and truly gone. His supplicants were kneeling on the floor at their workstations, utterly bewildered and lost. I yelled at a few of them for directions, but I only received blank animal stares in return. Some of them began to keen and growl in pain, others had already died. After they’d been gilded, it was Nin-Agal’s sheer will that had kept them alive. With him out of the way, they had little left to do but suffer and die.

“So how do we get out of here?”

“We keep moving until we see daylight. These towers are huge. Fifty stories at least, and all metal. Judging by the looks of his helpers, I think anything made by Nin-Agal is going to cease functioning quickly. We don’t want to be inside when it happens.”

We climbed a ladder next to the platform that had lowered us and bounded into the main hallway.

“Over here, ya big red pansy!” Goliath was standing sentry at the exit door. When he saw us round the corner he waved us towards the light. When we reached him, he asked no questions, just joined us in a jog. “What happened back there?” We turned a corner and Goliath led us down into a sunken garage. “They were great hosts while they lasted. I made sure they didn’t last too long. We’re borrowin’ us a new car, new weapons. Whatever they had what wun’t nailed down.” He pounded out a few more yards, then slowed a bit.

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