Dreaming Darkness by Kelley Armstrong

Author:Kelley Armstrong [Armstrong, Kelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989046333
Publisher: K.L.A. Fricke Inc

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Lance opened his eyes to see the full moon overhead.

How was he seeing the moon from his bed?

And why did it feel as if he were lying . . .?

On the ground. He bolted upright as he remembered Seanna with her Coelcerth stone. Seanna with the rough-edged rock. Swinging it at his head.

He leaped to his feet and looked around, his head pounding.

He was alone beside the playground.

Damn it, no. No, no, no. He couldn’t let her tell the elders. Seanna might have thought he was only trying to frighten her, but the elders would know the truth, and if they did not, Rose would tell them.

This whole thing was a trap. Seanna had made him take her stone, and then she’d lain in wait to catch him. Why else would she have been out here?

Her fault. All hers.

He heard a noise from the street. The slap of shoes on pavement.

Seanna, returning her stone to the bonfire.

He still had time to stop her. Stop her and make her pay for her trick. He wouldn’t rely on old magic to get rid of her. She was right--that was the coward’s way. He would do this himself. He looked down at the rock she’d hit him with.

Justice.

Lance scooped it up and started for the passageway back to Main Street. He was just about to step into it when a shadow passed overhead. He looked up, ready to glower at the owl. Instead, he caught a flash of what looked like . . .

No, it was an owl. It must be. The yellow talons and feathered tail of an owl. Not stone-gray talons. Not the flick of a stone-gray tail.

Just an owl.

He picked up his pace as he crept between the buildings, his footsteps silent on the well-worn path. Shadows swallowed the moonlight, and he had to reach out with his free hand, fingertips grazing the brick wall as he used it to guide him.

When a figure stepped into the passageway, he gave a start. Then he shook himself. It was just Seanna. He could tell by her thin body and height, though she’d tried to trick him by donning one of the Hwch Ddu Gwta cloaks, the oversized black robe trailing behind her, hood up over her face.

Lance hid the rock behind his back and walked right up to her and said, “Is that supposed to scare me?”

Seanna just stood there. He couldn’t see her face in the shadows under the hood. A tickling chill ran up his spine, but he forced it away and reached up to knock her hood back.

The hood fell. There was nothing under it.

Lance staggered back. Pale hands appeared from the sleeves of the robe. Bony fingers unfastened the cloak. As the flowing fabric pooled to the ground, he saw a neck. A bloodied, raw neck, the severed spine poking through.

He spun so fast he pitched forward but came out running, tearing down the passage. When a shadow filled the other end, he knew what it was.

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