Aegyir Rises (Guardians of The Realm Book 1) by Amanda Fleet

Author:Amanda Fleet [Fleet, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Manson and Westwood
Published: 2020-02-22T06:00:00+00:00

The next morning, I trudged down our lane back to the house, the paper bag from the pharmacy clutched so hard in my hand it was starting to go soft. The GP appointment had been exactly what I’d expected – all too brief with a prescription handed over at the end and a promise to refer me back for counselling. He’d prescribed something to help me sleep and something else for anxiety. I’d had the prescription filled, but I wasn’t convinced I would take them. Well, not the pills for stress. Some sleep would be good, but if a murderous demon was planning on killing everyone, including me, being anxious about that seemed entirely appropriate. I’d been on the same pills before and they’d made me feel dissociated and zombie-like. I wanted to feel sharp.

I unlocked the door, kicked off my shoes when I got in and locked the door, sliding the bolt across and putting the chain on, too. I shrugged my coat off, heavy-limbed with fatigue. I hadn’t slept well. No surprise there. The old, familiar nightmares about Stephen had marched through my brain, blending with new versions that incorporated Rick and demons and the Realm in a confusing mix. Then Lilja had popped up again, telling me not to trust anyone, but she’d vanished before explaining any more.

I had until just after lunch to myself. Finn finished at two, and we were trying out a session at a climbing wall when he got back. It was something both of us had fancied doing for a while and there’d been an online voucher that made it cheap enough for us to sign up for. Mind you, we’d signed up before the break-in and we now owed Rick shed-loads for the door. The session was non-refundable though, but at least the landlord had made positive noises about covering the costs of the door when Finn had called him.

The cottage was cold. Putting an electric fire on just for me seemed extravagant. Since I was knackered, I decided to snuggle back under the duvet upstairs while Finn was at work. I’d be cosy and warm and if I fell asleep that would only be a bonus. I bunched the pillows together and tucked under the covers, still fully dressed. Right enough, I was toasty, but my brain was too busy for me to sleep so I fetched the book and took some painkillers, hoping to prevent the screaming headaches I got whenever I tried to read the runes. Back upstairs, I flopped back on the bed. Something twitched in my brain that I couldn’t ignore.

The book had said that the Guides began to hide the bodies of those they had killed, so they could resemble their form without suspicion. Hence the woman in the library. Hence the man in the market square. Hence Toby Hall in my interview. All managing to be strolling around and making my charm glow blue, long after they were dead. Blue for danger – the danger being that these weren’t people, but rogue Guides looking like their dead victims.

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