Endless Knight by Nazri Noor

Author:Nazri Noor [Noor, Nazri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Nazri Noor
Published: 2019-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

We didn’t talk after that. Herald didn’t answer any of the five text messages I’d sent him, but neither did I expect him to. I’d done too much, asked too much. All that time I was worried about something as stupid as finding Bastion attractive, when it turned out I was hiding far worse things from him.

On purpose? I suppose it was. How do you tell someone that your entire existence has been funneled towards one horrific, ultimate act? That there’s no other choice but to sacrifice yourself in the most literal sense of the word? That was where my road began with the Eldest, with Thea, with the Dark Room. And sacrifice was where it was going to end, where everything was going to end.

But it was selfish to keep Herald out of it, to keep my father and all the others in the dark. I understood more than ever why Sterling was so angry with me. Herald would freeze the world for me, he said. I knew that my friends would have done the same.

Yet this wasn’t their burden. This was mine. And as days passed, things only got worse. The spontaneous combustion in France was only one of the many incidents worldwide that happened within the same span of minutes. I didn’t think it was ever reported in the media, that actual coincidence of so many people dying, so many accidents occurring within five crucial minutes, but it was how the human mind worked.

We look for patterns everywhere, to make sense of a universe built on numbers and random occurrences. But knowing that hundreds died at the same time on the same night, all over the world? That pattern was too much to bear. Couldn’t have happened. A freak coincidence. But happen it did. Humanity has created so many weapons, so many armaments, but denial has always been among its strongest.

The news reports had come in thick and fast, human disasters that were clustered too close together to be mere coincidence. Twenty children gone missing from a rural Thai village, their beds discovered empty. A mine in Japan collapsed in on itself, a sinkhole that swallowed a tiny community in Africa. All signs of Agatha’s killings.

Several more incidents must have been left out of the news. Places too remote for the media to pick up, maybe. Gil had made it his personal goal to track down all the stories he could find, all of them corresponding to that same night, that same hour. Now we knew what those thirteen crimson stars meant. They were all part of the same ritual. But a ritual for what? Astronomers took note of them, too, “anomalous curiosities,” they called the stars, not a warning, or an ominous threat. If only they knew. But denial is our strongest weapon.

We alerted the Lorica, and we would have to assume that the Lorica informed the Hooded Council and their global counterparts in turn. But that was the worst thing. Nothing had been heard of Agatha Black since that night.

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