Daughter of Danger: The Dark Avenger's Sidekick Book One (Moth & Cobweb 4) by Wright John C

Author:Wright, John C. [Wright, John C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

5. Night Flight

The roof was cluttered with antennae, vents, other machines, and fixtures, including more than one utility room with a roof entrance like this one. A man in brown overalls was trailing the officers, and he came forward and unlocked any trap doors or roof doors they directed.

Ami turned and opened the hatch leading down into the elevator machinery. The engine was grinding and complaining, and she saw the elevator car rising. In a moment, it would be at the top of the shaft. The elevator car filled the shaft. There was no escape that way.

Ami turned and beckoned Elfine to go out at the small door which led onto the roof. Fortunately, this door was on the opposite side of the utility room from the police. Emerging from that door would keep the structure between the girls and the eyes of the men.

Ami said quietly and quickly, “Head for the side of the roof and go straight down. Fly near the stone between the windows. If we get separated, meet me, um… in front of the club where I met you!”

Elfine said, “Not there! The redcaps might come back!”

“In the cathedral we passed on the way here. Saint Jean Baptiste.”

“He doesn’t like fairies! The high school next door to it! In the courtyard!”

There was no time to argue. “The courtyard! Fine! Now go!”

Elfine said, “Try turning invisible!”

Ami shook her head.

Elfine said, “But the police will surely see you!”

Ami wondered which course was riskier. What if the unseen eyes seeking her were not looking this way? She decided to try it.

Ami twisted the ring on her finger from white to pewter to a dark gray the hue of cast iron, almost black. The dark face closed its eyes. A dark mist spread out from the ring and swirled with sinister movements around her body. When the dark mist passed before her eyes, the shadows in the small utility room suddenly seemed darker, and the angles and spaces in the room were subtly wrong.

Standing in the corner of the room was a pale man garbed in black. His boots did not touch the ground, nor cast he any shadow. On his black surcoat was the image of a leafless white tree. On his head was a black crown from which a fierce and airless heat radiated, like the heat from a dark furnace. His eyes were empty sockets. His mouth was a lipless slash.

With dreamlike slowness the apparition turned his empty sockets toward her, and smiled, and raised a curved horn to his ghastly lips.

He winded the horn. A shattering noise rang out and echoed strangely. It did not echo from the walls in the room in which he stood but from larger unseen walls standing farther off. Howls of wolves answered the horn call. The baying was distant, but it came from more than one point of the compass.

Ami gritted her teeth to bite back a scream and twisted the ring back to pewter. The man vanished. Elfine was also not in sight.

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