Chosen by Swan Sarah

Author:Swan, Sarah [Swan, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Red Eagle Press
Published: 2011-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen – Oblivion

“So I didn’t imagine that?” I asked one more time.

Liz shook her head. Her eyes shone with excitement. The other two girls – even Eve, to my surprise – seemed to share in her delight. “No. That was real, and is about the strongest reaction one can incite. Tell us again what happened.”

I repeated, for what must have been the seventh time, what I felt for that brief moment with the crystal in my hand. I didn’t understand exactly what it was, or why the girls seemed to be so thrilled about it, but that’s just how things were. I was still holding the crystal, but it was now nothing more than a useless lump of rock. There was one difference, though: the bluish tint had faded, leaving the rock totally transparent.

As I told them what I felt, the girls oohed and aahed at my story. Eve even laughed at the part where I said I wanted to run and hide.

“I’ll admit, I was wrong about you, Tracy,” she told me when I had finished. Glancing sheepishly at Liz, she added, “I shouldn’t have doubted you, Liz.”

Liz waved the apology away. “You were only looking out for the best interests of the group.”

“I guess,” Eve said. “Still, it doesn’t feel right—”

“Excuse me?” I interrupted. “I know all of you are happy about… something… Would somebody please tell me what it was that just happened? And why it was so important?” After a moment’s thought, I added, “And what this group of yours really is?”

“One question at a time there, kiddo,” Liz teased. At the least it was good that the tension had dissipated. The joking and laughter even reminded me somewhat of that first morning we’d met at breakfast. “Madison, you want to tell her?”

“Certainly. You see, Tracy…” she trailed off, staring past me. “Here comes trouble.”

I looked the same way. Ashley was walking toward us, her face an unreadable mask. Liz looked over, and then back to Madison. “Don’t worry about it,” she said.

My eyes, however, were glued to Ashley. There was something unnerving about her emotionless face, something that didn’t quite let me look away. When she was about twenty feet away, her steps quickened. She put such purpose and force into them that they looked angry. I knew she was coming right at me. The other girls didn’t seem to be paying her much attention.

I noticed that one of her hands was clutched into a tight fist. Suddenly, she thrust it out in front of her, and a blue light erupted from it.

It was the same light I had seen at the party. This time, there was no questioning its source. It came from Ashley’s hand. It seeped through her fingers. In a second, it had coated everyone and everything in that neon glow. A booming silence shifted into place. I knew I was in grave danger.

Everyone around me froze. Madison was leaning forward, her mouth open in mid-sentence. Liz, who had started to get up, was clutching at something in her pocket.

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