Demon Games [4] by Steve Feasey

Author:Steve Feasey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction
ISBN: 9780330534895
Publisher: Pan Childrens
Published: 2010-09-03T05:00:00+00:00

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Philippa sat at the edge of the plinth, as close to the invisible barrier as she could get without touching it. Alexa did the same, and the two girls were able to talk without having to raise their voices.

They’d been talking about everything that had happened to them since they’d first met, filling in the gaps in the other’s knowledge as to how they had both ended up in this place. Philippa stared into space as her friend told her how Lucien and the Ashnon had finally managed to kill the Necrotroph that had murdered her father and left her irrevocably damaged. When the conversation inevitably got around to Trey, Alexa remarked on how she thought he’d changed since she’d seen him last.

‘I can’t quite put my finger on it, but he seems . . . colder. The last time I saw him was the morning he left for Canada. He was going out there to find his uncle, and it seemed that everyone apart from Trey knew that it wasn’t going to be an easy trip for him. My father had warned me about Frank Laporte, and the damage he might do to his nephew.’ She smiled anxiously. ‘But Trey was excited about the trip – excited and nervous. He’d discovered that he still had a living relative who, as a lyco like him, might be able to help him to come to terms with what he was all about. I don’t know what happened to him out there, but whatever it was, it seems to have hardened something inside him.’

Alexa shook her head sadly and looked up to find the other girl staring back at her with a look of incredulity.

‘You seem to forget that all of this,’ Philippa said, gesturing with her hand at her surroundings, ‘was complete fantasy to Trey and to me until very recently. If you’d told me that vampires really existed, I’d have laughed in your face.’ She snorted and shot her friend an angry look. ‘We weren’t brought up with magic and demonic possessions and nether-creatures. Trey’s still probably every bit as freaked out by this as I am. He’s bound to have changed. Did you really think he wouldn’t?’

‘No, of course not,’ Alexa said in a small voice. ‘I just meant . . .’ She shook her head. ‘I’m sorry.’

Philippa’s features softened and she smiled. ‘You like him, don’t you?’

Alexa looked up. ‘Trey? Yes, of course I like him. We’re good friends.’

‘But you like him as more than just a friend, don’t you?’

Alexa shrugged.

‘And it’s pretty clear that he likes you as more than just a friend too. Look at the way he attacked this force field, or whatever it is around us, to try to get to you . . . the way he just came out here after you, on his own.’ She paused before adding, ‘The way that he’s willing to risk his life to save you.’

Alexa sighed. ‘I don’t think that Trey and I could ever be together in that way.

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