Dark Prism by Cherry Adair

Author:Cherry Adair [Adair, Cherry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION/Action & Adventure
Publisher: Adair Digital
Published: 2017-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The entrance wasn’t huge, a couple of feet above Jack’s head and about ten feet wide when he stepped inside. Big enough for a two-hundred-foot snake to slither into? He shook his head. “There’s just no way a snake that huge could fit in here. Which is good. Really good.”

While he didn’t completely believe that Sara had actually seen a two-hundred-foot-long snake, the thought of one that size was enough to put him into a cold sweat in the middle of a sweltering jungle.

Still, she’d been terrified of something. Just to be on the safe side, he’d brought the Sig Sauer and the Ka-Bar hunting knife. He wasn’t taking any chances if his powers went on the fritz again. They’d been talking about the myth of the rainbow snake with Duncan Edge; Sara must’ve fallen asleep, and her subconscious had filled in more details than Jack really wanted to hear.

He didn’t want to have the same freaking nightmare.

The hothouse jungle, alive with noise and movement, grew right to the cave opening. As he stepped outside, the chattering of monkeys, the squeaks of rodents, and the slithering, chirping, and rustling of other creatures assaulted his senses.

Rocks had been placed in an untidy pile six or seven feet high against the outside wall, almost like a religious shrine. To the god Sarulu? Jack stepped up for a closer look. “Come and take a look at all the stuff people have left.”

Sara had her back to the cave wall, her gaze shifting across the foliage in front of her. “I can see it just fine from over here, thanks.”

Jack turned to inspect the offerings. Among the baskets of brightly colored fruit were candles of various sizes and boxes of matches. So Sarulu could light a candle or two when necessary? Seriously, did a snake need to light up? Jack thought wryly.

The fruit was fresh, as were the gourds of water and small plates of arepas, half-eaten by the animals and already covered with insects happily finishing the job. He ignored the buzz of the small bugs close to his face. They were everywhere and swatting them away didn’t make a jot of difference.

“What did Rojas give you?” Sara asked curiously, leaning against the sun-warmed rock face.

“I’ll check it out when we get back. I don’t want to open it here. In fact, let me send it somewhere for safekeeping. Whatever it was was clearly important to Rojas.” He pulled the box from his back pocket and sent it to the psionic safe, then took a closer look at the display. “This is … interesting.”

Hundreds of thin leather cords hung from the limestone rock. From each one dangled a shiny amulet, moving slightly in the hot breeze, refracting the sunlight into a kaleidoscope of colors.

“What is it, a mobile of some sort? Look how the prisms make little rainbows on the leaves over there.” She pointed. “Pretty but, under the circumstances, creepy.”

No shit. Jack lifted a braided cord on his finger, holding the six-inch amulet on his palm.

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