Death Awaits by T S Paul

Author:T S Paul [Paul, T S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great God Pan Publishing, Inc
Published: 2020-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Three-hour time differences suck. Nobody of importance was asleep in Briarwood. Dreamwalking requires dreams to work the way it’s supposed to. Still energized from the power I borrowed from Fergus I’d walked the dream paths looking for my family. And didn’t find them!

Nobody inside the valley was sleeping. As a matter of fact there weren’t all that many human or otherwise signatures to be found in it. I could sense something but couldn’t open the door to them. In a lot of ways the dreamscape was similar to Otherwhere’s Hall of Doors. If you replace doors with brains. Once I got inside there was so much I could do, but I had to get inside first. Casting my net a bit wider I searched for a sleeping mind. At this point I’d take a rabbit or a squirrel. The valley was just that empty.

Wolves.

Lots and lots of freaking wolves. Bears and cats too. But it was mostly wolves I was sensing.

When my powers brushed up against a human mind things got just a bit clearer.

“Six freaking months?” In this state of mind or body nobody could hear me, but I shouted it out anyway. I’d been in California in some sort of Kitsune wonderland for six freaking months! And the world stood on its ear and wept…

Ugh. So stupid. Diving into the human further, I dug around a bit. Not the one directly in charge. He was the lieutenant. Just enough in the know to allow me to see the full picture from the government's side. Or at least the ones in power. Like the president and my former nemesis, the FBI director. It was the dragons that touched the whole thing off, and ultimately it was my own damn fault!

For a human, the sleeping man was really in the know about many things. Invading his dreams, giving them a bit of a turn, I was able to really see the whole picture.

Pumping up the public's fear of the supernatural and paranormal was just the start. The new President put pressure on every corner of the country pressing all the correct buttons: loyalty to pack not country, hidden cities, covens, vampire attacks, and the second demon incursion to name a few. Then the dragons attacked. Whether they knew it was about to happen or not they used it as an excuse to bring in troops and lock the cities down. My battle in the skies over New England only gave them more ammunition. Suddenly Witches and Weres were the enemy and not to be trusted among humans. The purge my grandmother feared was on. Or it had been several months ago. Now it was just clean-up. Rounding up everyone and shipping them to relocation camps.

Making the sleeping agent wince in his sleep, I pressed hard on his brain. I needed to know more! Was this the reason I couldn’t find anyone? Digging deeper into the man’s subconscious I found the answers I sought.

“Think of this assignment as a step up Lieutenant.

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