Black Spells & Twisted Souls by Cece Rose

Author:Cece Rose [Rose, Cece]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-16T05:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

The Rift

My first look at The Rift shows it to be exactly what it’s rumoured to be. A large, dreary, warehouse-type building located within a small rift between worlds. This little pocket-sized dimension only stretches about two miles all around. The three-storey warehouse dominates the centre of that space, with only a few creepy—and downright dead-looking—trees surrounding it. The space cuts off into blackness around the far edges of the dimension. Let’s hope my bad luck doesn’t cause me to end up being thrown into it.

I stand frozen as I look ahead. The guards manning the door are terrifying to look at. Trolls. Actual fucking trolls. I hadn’t expected that, at all. I swallow my nerves and step forward, forcing my feet to carry me towards the towering beasts. I couldn’t chicken out without even going inside. Not after arguing with Lizzy about it. She’d met me in a café across from work and I’d pulled her off into the ladies to talk, away from the detective who had not so subtly followed me in and ordered himself a coffee.

At first, she’d been dead set against me coming here, and then insistent she should come with me. Eventually I’d convinced her to cut open a jump portal for me, and that she should open one back up for me in the same spot, in exactly one hour. If I didn’t come through within a few minutes, she had permission to come in after me. She’d demanded to know about fifty times why I wanted to come here, but with some careful aversion of her questions, and some damned firm refusal of explanation, she’d given in.

I reach the doorway and crane my neck, looking up at the troll on my side of the door. His skin is grey and wrinkled. He kind of reminds me of an elephant. He looks me over briefly before gesturing for me to continue through. I let out a deep breath, feeling the relief wash over me. I was worried I’d be stopped, like they’d know a white witch like me doesn’t belong in a place like this.

Nervously, I walk through a short, dark corridor. The door on the end doesn’t have a handle, so I assume it pushes in. Without giving myself a chance to chicken out, I walk straight at the door with my hands out, pushing it open as I step through the doorway.

My eyes dart around the strange place, wanting to take everything in at once. There are market type stalls everywhere, selling goddess only knows what kind of things if they’re being sold in a place like this. The ceiling is set high, but I can still see some stairs going up. The stairs are roped off, with another set of trolls guarding them. These ones look meaner than the ones at the front door. Bigger, tougher. I step back without even realising that I’d made a decision to. I collide with a warm body behind me. I quickly whirl around.

“I’m so sor—” my words cut off as I see who is standing behind me.

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