Dream Eater by K. Bird Lincoln

Author:K. Bird Lincoln [Lincoln, K Bird]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: asian urban fantasy, Japanese urban fantasy, dragon urban fantasy, kitsune stories, baku mythology, pacific northwest fantasy, Grimm book
Publisher: World Weaver Press
Published: 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

My phone beeped again as our new taxi pulled into the mega-parking lot at the top of PCC Sylvania’s hill. I flipped it open, my heart pounding so hard in my chest I wished I could reach inside my own ribcage and beat it into submission the same way Ken had squeezed the bench’s armrest into splinters back at Hoyt Arboretum.

Face etched in livid lines, Ken had taken out a heaping load of hurt on the bench, then stood there, bleeding fists closing and releasing on empty air.

I’d wanted to punch something, too. Or beg forgiveness on my knees. At least curl into a ball under Mom’s quilt and forget my part in leading Ullikemi straight to Thunderbird.

And Dad.

Marlin was right. Ken was right, telling me not to bury my head in the sand. I’d dug my own hole, and here I was at the bottom of it, alone with no one to turn to now that creepy Hayk had kidnapped my sister.

No one but Ken. Instead of breaking an innocent bench, I’d called the taxi.

Ken sat next to me now with that awful, careful stillness he’d lapsed into when the taxi pulled up. I stared at the blinking battery icon on my phone’s screen. Low battery. Not another text from Hayk as I feared. I sighed and resisted the urge to throw the stupid phone out the window.

Ullikemi’s unfocused hunger had coalesced into a purpose that burned through the rain like scented smoke, and the taxi driver coughed when the heavy, hunger-silted air seeped into the car through our opened door. I was sympathetic, the cardamom taste in my mouth made me want to hawk and spit.

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