Alchemy of Murder by Rex Baron

Author:Rex Baron [Baron, Rex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-12-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Pacific Palisades

Loretta gasped for air as she bolted upright in bed. She concentrated to remember the details of the dream from which she had awakened herself with a scream. She turned on the light and let the racing images settle in her brain. She had seen a skeleton on horseback, dressed in the armor of a knight, the image of the DEATH card in the tarot deck. But now, he was alive and menacingly real. He had chased her as she ran barefoot along a great precipice, and swiped at her with a scythe, forcing her dangerously close to the edge. As she ran, she came to a tidal pool filled with scorpions. In their midst lay a great dying fish with a snake in its mouth.

Loretta jotted down her memories of the images on a small pad that she kept near the bed. She remembered vaguely that the dream had started near a tall clock tower, over which an enormous eye hovered in the tempestuous sky, like the voyeuristic eye of a god. Nearby, she had seen seven swords stuck in the earth, which she understood from the tarot deck to represent cruelty, or the fact that any new thing is built on the destruction and ashes of what came before it.

She could not piece the fragments of images together, and decided to wait until morning, when she would lay out the cards in front of her and intuitively sense their hidden meaning. She switched out the light and lay back down. At the edge of sleep, she saw in her mind's eye the black knight up ahead blocking her path.

Once again, she tried to out flank him and ran into an open field filled with poppies, but he was instantly upon her, brandishing his scythe. As she looked over her shoulder to gauge how close he had come, she saw the razor edge gleaming in the moonlight for a half second before it found its mark and severed her head.

Loretta lay quietly in the dark, her chest heaving, her eyes glinting with moisture. She knew that she would sleep no more that night, and glancing at the clock beside the bed, thanked the gods that it was only two hours until the safety of dawn.

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