Demonicus (Overworld Underground Book 2) by John Corwin

Author:John Corwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raven House
Published: 2015-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

I stepped away from the bus shelter, but Tyler stopped me.

"Hang on. Don't let him see you." He tapped the lancer. "Get ready to use it."

"On an officer of the law?" I asked.

He chuckled. "Yep. It'll be fun."

"You're incorrigible." I took a few steps back and positioned myself where I could get an unobstructed angle on the officer.

George was the first to respond to the cop's demands. "May I help you, officer?"

"Not you." The policeman motioned George back toward the other side of the road. "I'm talking to the pair with the unconscious woman."

"Oh, of course." George backed away.

"Our friend had too much to drink," Victoria said in a twangy southern accent. "We're takin' her home."

"Identify yourselves," the officer said.

"I'm Terry Lee and this is Billy Joe." Victoria looked at the officer with wide innocent eyes. "I'm real sorry, sir. Jenny cain't hold her liquor worth a damn."

The cop frowned, and relaxed ever so slightly, though I noticed his hand on a stun gun. "I'll need to see some identification."

"Shore thang!" Victoria turned to Patrick. "Now, don't let her fall, Billy!"

"A'ight," my father said in a perfect imitation of a brain dead good old boy.

I felt warm hand press up on my chin and close my gaping mouth.

Tyler chuckled. "Never realized your parents were Broadway actors, huh?"

I was too enthralled with the scene to reply. Victoria leaned on the officer's car door, smiled at him, and carried on a conversation too quiet for us to hear. The cop burst into laughter at one point then looked into his hand as if he were examining an ID card. He made the motion of handing the invisible card back to my mother, laughed again, and drove off.

"Look at George," Tyler said.

I flicked my gaze toward the Custodian and caught a genuinely puzzled look on his face. "It appears my mother can surprise anyone."

George quickly recovered and rejoined Patrick. My mother caught my gaze and smiled knowingly.

"Mum can be annoying, but she's still impressive." I let my eyes wander to Tyler. "Now, if only she'd respect me."

"I think she just wants to keep you safe." Tyler wrapped an arm around my shoulders. "Give it some time to let her adjust to the idea of your new side job."

"Perhaps." I stiffened. "Good lord, I haven't been paying attention." Don't bollox this, you ninny!

"To more sentries?"

"Yes." Thankfully, there were no other nearby blips to be found. Somewhere on the other side of the fence, I felt the distant pressure of more demons. I closed my eyes and tried to differentiate the individuals from the crowd, but it was like trying to isolate a single, faraway voice in a roar of conversations.

Tyler squeezed my hand. "Anything?"

I shook my head. "Nothing nearby."

The others returned a few minutes later. "Welcome back Terry Lee and Billy Joe." My southern accent fell short of the excellent ones employed by my parents, but I tried anyway.

"Not bad," my mother said.

"How did you get the cop to think he had your ID card?" Tyler asked.

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