Cold Cat Mountain: The Peak (Cold Cat Mountain Trilogy Book 1) by Kimberly Goss-Kearney

Author:Kimberly Goss-Kearney [Goss-Kearney, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jericho Publishing
Published: 2015-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

~Eighteen~

Blaze was too tired to talk about how tired she was when she pulled herself out of bed. She felt a head ache creeping up the back of her scalp. Draping her leg over the rounded arm of the chair in the living room, she swung it absently trying to stay awake. Sleep had laughed in her face during the night and instead of letting her rest it’d played tour guide, pointing out all the weakest points of entry for the motor home. In twenty four hours she’d gone from being reasonable to accompanying Matilda into the field to hear unexplainable howls, and see a tree arch.

A warning. Matilda paced, pausing in front of the largest living room window, peering out into the rainy morning fog. Blaze could sense she too was reacting to something. She considered offering her one of the medications she was forced to take for her own disease, but decided against it. A medicated genius would be difficult to manage.

Matilda stopped pacing and slid down into the chair next to Blaze, leaning on her knees and staring into the fire. She’d repeated the same process several times during the night. She’d also stated several times they’d have to use the day to get a plan together, but she wasn’t asking Blaze for input. It was evidently her process. Blaze had decided several weeks ago her tenacity could be exhausting.

As they sat quietly in the glow of the fire each pondering different things the morning emerged, still wet and unwelcoming. Blaze meditated on the sounds she’d heard from the wooded mountains beyond their walls. Matilda considered the best course of action to take with both a novice and a cryptid that might be responsible for sixty-three missing persons.

Neither had considered the results of arriving and sensing something foreboding would be so difficult. Mostly because they each had their own version of reality. Matilda expected a cryptid, perhaps a dangerous one. Neither had expected to feel unsafe, and neither had anticipated Blaze’s response to the potential realities of a human hybrid taking people.

Blaze sipped her black coffee, stretching her neck from side to side, yawning. Matilda began pacing again. A soft patter of rain began drumming steadily on the roof again. She spoke softly to herself as she orated possible options into her hand mic.

Blaze contemplated how idealistic and cozy the Vacationer and the wooded setting would have been were it not for their colliding responses to the situation, and what felt like a temporary paralysis in decision making 101. Matilda was uncertain as to how to proceed even if she wasn’t prepared to share that insight with Blaze.

Blaze also couldn’t help concluding they’d somehow stumbled into more than Matilda had anticipated- in truth Blaze had believed it would be a dead-end expedition. However, the searcher in Matilda was compelled. And the admission that whatever it was might be at least partly human seemed to have somehow altered Matilda’s responses to their research. If she’d theorized and accepted

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