Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, Book 1) by Susan Ee

Author:Susan Ee [Ee, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2012-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

I DREAM that I’m fighting again by the laundry barrels. We’re soaked in laundry suds. My hair is dripping and my clothes cling, as wet T-shirts will do. Anita is pulling my hair and screeching.

The crowd is too close, hardly giving us room to fight. Their faces are contorted, showing too much teeth and too much white around their eyes. They shout things like “Rip off her shirt!” or “Tear off her bra!” One guy keeps yelling frantically, “Kiss her! Kiss her!”

We roll into a laundry barrel and it comes crashing down. Instead of dirty laundry water, foaming blood splashes everywhere. It is warm and crimson as it soaks me. We all stop and stare at the blood pouring out of the barrel. An impossible amount of it flows out like an endless river.

Laundry floats by. Shirts and pants soaked in blood, empty and crumpled, lost and soulless without their wearers.

Scorpions the size of sewer rats ride the islands of crimson clothing. They have enormous stingers with drops of blood at the tips. When they see us, they curl their tails and spread their wings with menace. I’m pretty sure scorpions are not supposed to have wings, but I don’t have time to think about that because someone screams and points to the sky.

Along the horizon, the sky darkens. A dark, boiling cloud blots out the setting sun. A low buzz like the beating of a million insect wings fills the air.

The wind picks up and quickly grows to hurricane force as the churning cloud and its shadow race toward us. People run in panic, their faces suddenly lost and innocent like frightened children.

The scorpions take to the air. They congregate and pluck someone out of the crowd. Someone small with withered legs. She screams, “Penryn!”

“Paige!” I jump up and run after them. I sprint blindly through the blood which is now ankle high and rising.

But no matter how hard I run, I can’t get any closer to her as the monsters haul my little sister into the oncoming darkness.

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