Charmed I'm Sure by Elliott James

Author:Elliott James [James, Elliott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780316253451
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2013-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

A voice eventually woke me. My body was freezing and wet and my neck was killing me, but not literally, so I went ahead and opened my eyes. The first thing that I saw was the wila, human-looking and washed up against the same riverbank that I was on except that her face was under the water, the pike still jutting from both sides of her torso, my knife sticking out of her side. I don’t know how many hours it had taken me to heal, but the sun was up. I closed my eyes again, but the voice kept yelling. My body was strangely unresponsive when I forced myself to flop over on my back—my wounds had closed, but the temperature of the water and my unnatural position had impaired my blood flow. It would have been helpful if the blond Marine screaming at me had pulled me from the edge of the water, but then I realized that he couldn’t. The sun was shining through him.

I dropped my head back into the water and closed my eyes again. Maybe I was dead. That wouldn’t be so bad if the voice would just shut up.

But it didn’t. The voice kept screaming, and then a thought materialized in my mind fully formed: the faery ring. The other Marine must have come out of his trance and left the faery circle when the wila died, still stuck in that in-between place. He’s no ghost, but he’s still toast, I thought with that muzzy irreverence of the half-conscious. He’s doing the Limbo, Jimbo. The only reason I could see him was that I had performed the counter-charm.

Another thought then: Someone has to bury the bugganes.

There was still work to be done. Opening my eyes again, I rolled over onto my side and began the slow painful crawl back to life.

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