Attempted Immortality (Withrow Chronicles Book 4) by Michael G. Williams

Author:Michael G. Williams [Williams, Michael G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-20T14:00:00+00:00

Jennifer cranked the mini-van’s engine and threw it in reverse. “They know we’re here,” she said to the car in general.

“Where are we going?” Dan’s voice shook.

“One of them just pulled out a pistol and pointed it at Xi,” Ramon said, “But another made him put it away and picked up a rock… and threw it? Xi’s been hit.” Ramon was still hunched over the tablet.

“Xi is returning to his point of origin.” Sheila’s voice was flat, no more emotional than text on a terminal screen. She didn’t sound worried because she didn’t sound anything. She was still locked into the meditation.

“Without his complete pattern, our surveillance rune is shot,” Dan said.

“We’re aborting,” Jennifer said. It was an order, not an opinion. She stepped on the gas and the engine roared. The back wheels of the mini-van shrieked and kept shrieking. The van didn’t move. Marty and Beth, seated in the last row, looked backwards.

“There is a woman,” Beth said. “She is holding the van in place.”

Marty noticed, just at the edge of his vision, Beth’s eyes widen slightly in fear.

Jennifer looked in the rear view mirror. A lone woman, looking to be in her 60’s, stood there with one hand on the back gate. The van’s engine was at maximum revs, roaring like it was about to throw a rod, but it couldn’t move an inch.

Marty licked his lips. “The force exerted by the engine of this van at maximum output, expressed in pounds per square inch across the surface area of an average human hand is –“

Jennifer shifted to drive and gunned it again, but the rear axle of the van merely lifted off the ground as the woman behind them picked up the whole thing using the back bumper.

Another pair of figures, a man and woman, melted out of the darkness at the edges of the parking lot and moved in. One approached the driver’s door and the other walked slowly toward the passenger door.

Jennifer reached down and hit the automatic lock.

Dan laughed at the mechanical clunk noise and he sounded a little hysterical.

“Jennifer,” Ramon said, his voice very quiet. “Are we about to die?”

“No,” Jennifer replied. “We are not.”

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