Cursed by Darkness

Author:Anna Sanders [Sanders, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Iris Books
Published: 2012-10-02T22:00:00+00:00

THE SAVAGES BEGAN APPROACHING WINX. Their gait was slow and measured, and they growled with renewed energy.

Winx ignored the victim who was flopping around like a dork in the sticky bush. Instead, she focused all of her attention on the savages. Controlling more than one was difficult, and if she broke contact with them by thinking of the silly lixyn, then they would go right back to their attempted feeding frenzy. She probed their empty minds, searching for a hold. But she could not find one. Her eyes widened.

The savages were not stopping. Winx watched as they came closer, despite her verbal and mental commands for them to do otherwise.

“Oh. Fuck.”

Their closeness was a necessity, but they were getting too close. Winx had to back up quickly, doing her best not to trip over anything in her path. Five savages. Filthy, dragging, slobbering things. And one daevor who could not make them stop.

Winx lifted her shovel. She was quickly regretting her decision to come to the lixyn’s aid. With a hard shout, something resembling a war cry, she ran toward the dead. She swung her shovel in an array about her, the movements an artful blur. Her feet crunched into the crumpled dead leaves as her gait increased.

Her shovel connected with the underside of the first adversary’s jaw. He went down, but he wasn’t out yet. While he was momentarily stunned, Winx kicked another one back. The other three swarmed in close, eager to tear at any flesh that they could, but Winx was too quick. She shoved them all back with the handle of her tool, taking advantage of their slowness.

Winx hurriedly made her way to the first savage that hadn’t quite regained his balance from the ground. She bashed his head in three times with the shovel. It was short work, but while she had been dealing with him the second savage crawled over to take a bite out of her ankle.

The pain was nothing new to her. But it did take her by surprise, and it slowed her down. She still had four savages to deal with.

Taking the blade of the shovel, Winx brought it down hard on the fiend’s neck. She continued until his neck was good and broken, wrestling her foot out of its limp grasp.

Stumbling out of the reach of the remaining three, Winx surveyed the damage to her ankle. It was bad, but not broken. And even if it were, she was still on her own.

“Stop!” She tried the command again, authority permeating her impulsion. “Stop now.”

They staggered. Winx probed their minds once more, attempting to force their will. Only one listened. The other two still made their way closer.

“You, make yourself useful.” She addressed the one that she could contact, her voice was rough with pain. She withdrew Deja’s blade. “Catch.”

The savage to her immediate left caught the blade.

“Stick it into your friend’s head.”

He made his way to the other savage. That left Winx with only one to deal with for the moment.

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