A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney

Author:L.L. McKinney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imprint

Seventeen

MY LADY

The Black Knight stood at the mouth of the road as the Fiends tore through the town and its citizens. Strange, he’d expected a response by now. Maybe the Fiends he’d sent ahead to scout the area had been wrong about Alice being here, and all of this was for nothing.

Well, perhaps not entirely. As bodies fell, more Fiends rose, numbers to bolster Her Majesty’s forces.

“She’s here.” A slithery voice sliced through the air at his left. “The Dreamwalker.”

He scanned the chaos, trying to catch sight of her. “Where?”

“There.” One of the Fiends paced at his side, its eyeless head fixated down the road.

In the distance, a Fiend shrieked as it was flung to the ground, dissolving in its death throes. Alice Kingston stood over it, a sword in her hands and fury on her face. The anger wasn’t quite as potent as when he’d glimpsed her across that field, or when he’d gone to her home, but it was close.

The Black Knight nodded, his fingers clenching into fists at his sides. “Take her.”

The Nightmares bounded forward with a roar. He remained where he stood, observing the fight. He’d never been able to simply watch; usually he faced off with her as her opponent. She tore through one of the creatures, her ferocity formidable, her form impressive. She twirled her weapons around her body in fluid, deadly motions. Familiar motions. He knew that fighting style …

His vision blurred. Pain danced between his ears as a flash of white crossed his sight, followed by a flare of red. The battlefield flickered, faded.

He blinked, trying to focus. Images pressed in against and on top of each other. One moment he was watching Alice tear her way through his forces, and the next … he stared as a woman with long burgundy hair braided to her scalp dove in and around attacking creatures. Her red armor blazed in the daylight. She looked toward him. Their eyes locked. “Humphrey!” she shouted, waving him forward.

My … lady…?

Turning, the woman roared as she charged one of the creatures and leaped into the air. Alice was the one who dropped from the sky as the vision shifted again. An outline of the other woman’s armor flickered around her. A howl split the air. Alice spun, her sword lifted. The pain in his head intensified to throbbing.

He shut his eyes. Someone screamed behind him as a Nightmare ran them down.

Wrong. This is Wrong. He knew it, and here he was anyway. There was nothing to be done.

You did something before.

But his lady willed it.

She’s not my lady.

“ALICE!”

His eyes flew open. His entire body went cold.

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