Entombed by Kate Baray

Author:Kate Baray [Kate Baray]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Twelve

“That wasn’t just me, was it?” Jack asked.

Marin placed her hand on the wall. “Not just you. There’s magic pulsing in the walls.”

Jack waited to see if another tremor was coming. When the ground stayed firmly under his feet for several seconds, he said, “We need to check on Kaisermann.”

“You go. I’ll stay here.” She motioned to Elliot.

When they started talking livers, he’d looked a little rough. Now…now he looked numb.

“Yeah. Be back shortly.” Jack glanced again at Elliot. “If you have a contact you can tap for more information on aswang…”

“Yeah.”

Several guests were descending from the upper floor as Jack exited his room. The third floor must be where the shared rooms were located. From the chatter, the consensus was that there’d been an earthquake.

No surprise. He encountered it over and over again. Humans were stubbornly unwilling to see the unusual and out of place for what it frequently was: magic.

Kaisermann was addressing guests as they descended the stairs. “Nothing to worry about. Just a little local tremor. Everything’s fine.” He herded guests to the breakfast room, which also served as the games room, the drinking room, and generally a place for people to congregate and socialize. “Help yourself to the wine. I’ve got a few bottles open.”

After the last guest had drifted to the breakfast room, Jack said, “Wine? How do you manage that on twenty dollars a night per head?”

Kaisermann winked. “It’s not good wine. Oh, and you’re paying more than that. Semi-private rooms are at a premium.”

“Of course.”

“Don’t use that tone. I know you’ll expense it.” Kaisermann inclined his head to the check-in counter. “Join me?”

“Oh, yes, I think so. That was no tremor, and I’m hoping you can tell me what it was.” Jack walked behind the counter and planted himself in one of the two chairs.

Kaisermann sat down. “Apologies. I should have warned you. That was just Sally being proactive, pulling her shields up, so to speak.”

“Her shields? Please tell me we’re not trapped in here.”

Kaisermann’s eyebrows shot up. “What? No, no. Of course not. There’s just more of her in the house than under it now.”

“Under it? So is that the deal? She lives in the ground?”

“In the ground, the house, the surrounding vegetation. It’s all rather Mother Earth-like.”

Jack wasn’t sure that this was helpful for their current dilemma, so time to hit the meaty stuff. “If you’re sure there’s no problem…” Kaisermann nodded, so Jack asked, “About those dreams you’ve been having—you wanna tell me what you’ve been seeing?”

“Yes. Very unpleasant in the last few days. They started out much tamer. Initially, I was walking in the forest, being pulled through, compelled to walk down this path. But just a path.”

Warning bells went off in Jack’s head. Compulsion would be one way to describe mind control. “And then?”

“Then I’m digging.” Kaisermann rubbed his lower back as he spoke. “Had that one for several days. I thought I was sleeping poorly and my back pain had inserted itself into my dreams, but I got a new mattress and the dreams persisted.

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