Autumn Dawn by Dark Lands

Author:Dark Lands
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction, General, Fantasy, Fiction
ISBN: 9781586088439
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2006-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

She snarled. “If I wanted to make a weapon, I'd test it on you first. I haven't made any ... yet."

He shrugged. “Why don't you just show it to me and end the battle? Why all the secrecy?"

"Because it's mine. Because it's none of your business! Not the council's, not yours, got it? It's mine."

"Is the secrecy worth risking your father's murderers going free?"

"If I knew anything about that, I'd come clean. I don't. You werewolves all look alike to me. I didn't smell anything I'd remember, so do me a favour and bugger off, mate!” She stalked off. Oddly, he didn't follow her to her room. Maybe he knew she would be easy enough to find when he was ready to interrogate her again. This reprieve couldn't last.

Anxiety made her restless, and pacing her small room didn't help. She needed out, so she threw on some jeans, a navy sports bra and a long sleeved, black shirt.

Dressed for success, she scaled her garden wall.

She wasn't trying to escape the Darklands. It was freezing cold on the other side of the gate, assuming she could find it. Her sense of direction sucked. Even if she could follow the snow machine tracks back, she'd freeze long before she reached civilization.

No, she just needed a break from company, especially 's. Crossing the grassy spot behind the wall, she took a straight line toward the looming shape of an obstacle course she'd seen in the distance that morning. At the time it had been swarming with Haunt, but now it stood abandoned at the edge of the park.

Rolling her neck, she jumped up and grabbed one of the dangling ropes. Wrapping the rope around one leg and holding it with her feet, she climbed up hand over hand to the top beam. Walking across was easy—she'd always had excellent balance and no fear of heights. She climbed down the cargo net and then sprinted over to the pole at the end, climbing it like a palm tree. The next bit was harder, a series of poles spaced at two foot intervals, and not in a straight line. Pretending they were stepping stones, she paced across them, her carriage straight and confident. To dismount, she grabbed the hand bar and slid down the line, over an open pit filled with water.

Enjoying the challenge, she slithered, shinnied and hopped at full speed, then sprinted back to the beginning of the course and did it all again.

About the forth run through, she started to tire. It was late and she'd been running a marathon of sorts for the better part of a year. She turned back toward the garden, and froze. She scented Haunt on the air. There, to her right.

Her nose and ears were keener in human form than when she changed, oddly enough. She looked in the direction of the smell, but couldn't see anything. Whoever it was, they hadn't bothered her yet, and she was looking right at them.

Breathing deeply to ward off panic—or maybe it was controlled hyperventilation—she paced toward her garden.

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