Druid's Bane: A Druidverse Urban Fantasy Novel (The Trickster Cycle Book 3) by M.D. Massey
Author:M.D. Massey [Massey, M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Modern Digital Publishing
Published: 2022-07-18T04:00:00+00:00
Chapter
Fourteen
Following the battle, I quickly hid, then I shifted back to my semi-human form and got dressed to avoid traumatizing the patients further. After the demonsâor daemons, as it wereâhad been defeated and sent packing, the hospital reverted to relative normalcy. The influence of madness theyâd exerted vanished, and many of the patients calmed down somewhat, despite earlier events. Thankfully, most were unharmed, but some were unaccounted for, according to the few hospital staff members whoâd remained.
Those people whoâd been lost inside the fog monster emerged relatively unscathed, although they remained in a semi-catatonic fugue. As for the car-person hybrid, each returned to their previous state after I killed the Escher monster. However, the poor woman whoâd been inside the car remained traumatized, so much that she screamed her throat bloodyâand then kept on screaming.
We tried to comfort her, but how do you comfort someone whoâd been through that? After a few minutes of failed attempts to calm her, I was at a loss and almost ready to dose her with some poppy seed. Thankfully, a hospital employee came by to give her an injection that knocked her out.
âThanks,â I said, as I stole a glance at her name tag so I could address her properly. âDr. Solomon.â
âThank you for saving Sharon,â she said.
âWas she a patient?â I asked.
Dr. Solomon shook her head gravely, sparing the woman a sideways glance as two orderlies lifted her onto a stretcher. âA counselor. Although Iâm afraid she might become a patient, after what she went through.â
âIâm sorry,â I said. âWe did our best.â
âIâm aware,â the psychiatrist replied. âI saw what you three did, although I donât have any context by which to frame what just happened. After what I witnessed, Iâm starting to question my own sanity.â
âItâs best if you just forget it all,â Fallyn said. âTrust me on this.â
âHow many of your employees saw the last bit?â I asked.
Her gray eyes widened slightly, and she tucked a stray bit of silver hair behind her ear. âYou mean the part with tentacles, and the fog, and the creature that defied every law of logic and physics? Or the part where something equally monstrous and hideous destroyed it? Just me, I think. Everyone else was locked behind closed doors, trying to call for help.â
I glanced at Fallyn, who raised an eyebrow as she gave me a âdonât look at meâ look. Without Maeve around to provide fae âcleanersâ and other resources, this was going to be hard to cover up. It made me realize that, while I rarely saw eye to eye with her, the local faery queen just might be a necessary evil after all.
Turning my attention back to Dr. Solomon, I gently touched her shoulder. âFallyn is right. It would be best if you pretended this had never happened. People who see events like this sometimes run into trouble later.â
âAs in, they have mysterious accidents,â Fallyn added, using air quotes for emphasis. âOr they disappearâpermanently.â
I winced at Fallynâs harsh demeanor. Raised on bloodshed, werewolves were often clueless regarding human reactions to violence and threats of same.
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