Ash & Flame: Season One by Geiger Wilson

Author:Geiger, Wilson [Geiger, Wilson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-29T18:30:00+00:00

EPISODE FOUR

Lilith’s mind reached out in the gathering darkness, racing out past the Hellfont, seeking miles to the south. She had to see her, had to see that dark hair and those fierce, calculating eyes. She had to see the power that pumped through her daughter’s blood, couldn’t help herself.

She had to see Emma.

At first she had been content to sit in the Hellfont, watching the Grigori plans for this world play out, but soon she tired of it. The ledge was so close now, her toes so near the edge. Emma arriving would change everything, and Lilith could barely contain herself at the thought.

Agonized cries sounded at the base of the spire, screams and pleading shrieks battering uselessly against the walls. Flames rose from the cracked, scorched earth, as her mind passed over the broken remnants of the city, over the seemingly endless lines of crushed, ruined vehicles strewn over the highway.

She sighed at the twinge as she found them below, under the canopy of trees that still covered large swaths of land to the south. Her mind sought one of them, drawn as always to those she could best use. Something pliable. Something human.

She felt the frightened mind instinctively recoil from her touch, and she squeezed it tight in her grip until it gave way completely to her. All this time, and she still held her breath during the act of possession, her chest fluttering as mortal, human senses flooded over her. She slipped inside, unable to suppress the shudder at the warmth and the pumping blood rushing under her skin, and opened her eyes with a low sigh.

Lilith—the body she had taken—crouched on the lip of a rough crater, her feet digging into the pockmarked earth. She looked down at her arms, covered in streaked ash, at her thin, emaciated body, and smiled.

The Ashen. So useful. So needy.

She wiggled her toes, felt the dirt underneath. A slight breeze picked up, her hair sweeping over her shoulder, and she had to stop herself from closing her eyes at the rush of emotion that bubbled up, goosebumps springing up on her skin. There was something about living, about living under another’s skin, that was an indescribable joy.

She looked behind her. A fallen tree blocked half the crater, the crater itself one of several that spread across the narrow clearing leading into the wider forest at her back. Trees had been blasted out of the earth, limbs and thin, leafless branches scattered everywhere.

Two men crouched behind the fallen tree. Her heart nearly jumped until she saw their hair smeared with ash. One of them, a skinny man with white hair that sprouted from his head, looked expectantly past her and Lilith’s gaze followed his.

A third Ashen man ran towards her, jumping out from the trees across an old road that split the forest, the cement cracked and heaving upwards as if the earth had spat it out. An overturned car, the metal mangled, lay on its side beside the road.

The man slowed as he neared the crater.

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