Demon on a Distant Shore by Linda Welch

Author:Linda Welch [Welch, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-03-25T13:00:00+00:00

Taking our time getting to Johnny, we ambled in the evening dusk. I felt comfortably full and a little sleepy. Royal whistled a low melody. The clouds had cleared from the sky, an oval moon shone bright and high in the west, illuminating the quaint village cottages and their gardens.

A notion popped into my head. “I wonder if we should be doing this.”

“Doing what?”

“Telling Johnny we have evidence which could convict Darnel Fowler, when we don’t know it will.”

“Your call, Tiff.”

I squeezed my lips together in frustration. If only we were home in Clarion. I would know what to do there. I knew people who would at least check up on what I told them. But if we went to the British police, what could we say? I couldn’t think of any way than to tell them the truth and I doubted they would seriously consider anything a self-proclaimed ghost-speaker said.

But if I didn’t help Johnny, I couldn’t help the little Elemental; though I had a gut feeling there was more to the creature’s distress than the death of one boy. I had to think of a way to get the police involved in Johnny’s death, because we should be on our way to Oban.

“One more day,” I told Royal, “then we head out.” We would drive to Oban and look for the Nortons, or any sign they had been there. If we didn’t find them, we would work our way back to Little Barrow and do some good old-fashioned detective work on the way, looking for clues.

We turned into the lane. Johnny sat on his scooter looking down at the church.

A motor came to life farther down the lane beyond the church. Headlights blazed like twin suns. We moved to the grass bank as the vehicle came toward us. It seemed to be going much too fast for a narrow country lane, but as I’ve observed, British motorist don’t seem to know the meaning of drive with caution. Royal and I stood tight to the bank as we waited for it to pass.

It was almost on us when I heard a scream like the cry of an eagle and saw the little Elemental crouched on the other side of the lane. Its cry went through my head as a brief, excruciating pain which literally forced my head around. My sight blurred, cleared, and focused on the vehicle speeding toward us. I grabbed Royal’s sleeve. “Royal - ”

I hung inside Royal’s arms on the far side of the lane, watching the car hit the bank exactly where we stood a second ago. The right front wheel went up the bank, jogged down on the road again. It swerved, corrected, and sped on.

Royal released me as the car took a sharp left and disappeared around the corner and to the main road. “I’m going after it.”

A horrific noise momentarily deafened me. The sky caught fire, a blaze of red and yellow bright as day. The trees stood out like a mesh of twisted black bones.

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