A Spark of Vengeance by Rebecca Ethington

Author:Rebecca Ethington [Ethington, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9964632-9-4
Publisher: Rebecca Ethington

Chapter Ten

The lights that flickered and danced over the roof of the cave reminded me of water, of water flying. I sat on the tattered couch in the cave of The Draíocht, staring at the rippling blue light that cut over the ceiling. Michel’s muted voice was a rumble in the background, the sound only adding to the memory that I couldn’t stop from assaulting me.

When I was about twelve my father had taken me to Hong Kong. He called it a business trip, in reality he wanted me to kill a Prime Minister who was visiting the city on a peace mission.

My father, Edmund, had given me specific instructions on how he wanted it done, and commanded my handler, Cail, to record it. My father was ecstatic, it was to be my first true assassination. More than just the systematic killings he had had me perform on those he ruled as traitors, this was my first real test, and I wanted nothing to do with it.

I had sat up all night, watching the lights of Hong Kong flash, emailing back and forth with Joclyn. Writing letters that I could never send, knowing I would have to erase and replace everything with fake stories about things I was seeing, and a city I wasn’t going to step foot in.

It was sometime near one am that I ran away, ran through the city after the lights and after the freedom they promised. I saw them first from across a busy city street, the brilliant green glowing from underneath a wide metal bridge. At first I thought it was magic, but the closer I got, the more I could see. Huge glass fans of green and blue spread under the bridge in a sculpture of illuminated ropes. They long snakes of glass spiraled through rails and skidded over the surface of the water like the sails of a fish. The color glowed from within the spun glass, reflecting in the waves and fanning through the dark like a beacon I could never reach.

A safety I could never find.

I stood there, crying, watching the colors, until Cail found me. He pulled me away by the crook of my arm to my father who was waiting in the limo. Cail held me down as my father broke one bone after another, screaming at me, demanding obedience. Demanding my service.

I was forced to kill the Prime Minister anyway, forced to watch him die.

But even as I watched the man gasp for breath, I remembered those lights, remembered the way the blue skimmed over the surface as though it was flying. Soaring to freedom.

I saw it again in the lights that shimmered over the ceiling, reflecting against the walls in lines of light. I settled deeper into the ripped and stained couch in the center of the massive cave.

Perfectly placed for Michel to put us, and his relationship to us, on display.

Right then, however, I didn’t care, I didn’t even see. I just stared at the lights.

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