Apocalypse Weird: Reversal (Polar Wyrd Book 1) by Ellis Jennifer

Author:Ellis, Jennifer [Ellis, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8 – Hell on Earth

Her heart felt like it had expanded painfully to fill her entire chest. This was the end of her life. How much would the impact at the bottom hurt before she expired? The noise she had heard before grew louder and angrier and she had the sense of movement of dark shapes all around her. Things brushed against her face, like bats. Was she falling straight into hell?

Then the rope that attached her to Soren snapped and held tight around her waist. She would kill him too, pulling him right from the cliff wall with her momentum. But instead of feeling the rope slacken indicating his fall, it held and she was dashed against a steep rock face, bruising and cutting her face, shoulders, and legs. Pain exploded in her head where she hit it. Then she dangled, blood streaming down her face, swinging on the rope like a pendulum. She had dropped below the mist, and all around her on stony cliffs with the wild ocean surging below, were penguins…thousands and thousands of penguins.

She scrambled for a foothold in the rocks while penguins scolded and scurried all around her. There were multiple ledges and despite the shooting pain in her arms and legs, she was able to grab on and stabilize herself.

“I’m okay,” she managed to yelp up to Soren. The rope quickly went slack as Soren descended the rest of the way out of the mist. They were not that high up. To their left was a sheer cliff that dropped right into the ocean, but to their right, a hundred feet below them, the cliff flattened out into a rough rocky plateau. And everywhere, as far as the eye could see, were Adelie penguins. They emerged from nooks and cracks in the cliff to stare at her, and some even took runs at her. She had to raise one arm and shrink away to avoid contact with jutting beaks.

Soren came to rest beside her, his blue eyes darting this way and that as he too tried to take in and process their location.

“I know this place,” he said finally. “We’re on Paulet Island.”

Sasha gazed out at the rocky shore. Paulet Island…in the Antarctic. She supposed the Antarctic part had been pretty much obvious from the penguins. But how did Soren know it was Paulet Island?

She turned back to Soren with the question in her eyes.

“My partner Marina was a penguin researcher, before… We spent a lot of time here.” His voice cracked and his face seemed to have fallen in on itself. He turned and closed his eyes for a second, and then snapped his attention back to Sasha. “You’re bleeding. We need to get down to the shelf there and get you cleaned up. Then we’ll wait for Robert to come to the conclusion that we fell into the crater and died.”

The blood from her face tasted like copper on her lips. “What if he knows about the mist? What if

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