FAREWELL GHOST by Larry Caldwell

Author:Larry Caldwell [Caldwell, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sinister Rouge
Published: 2020-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

16

CASTLE OF GLASS

They didn’t know where Savy was. Only that she was late for the Echoplex gig—and Savy was never late. Clay had no explanation for Fiasco or Spider, didn’t know how to start if he tried. Well, you see, she and I watched Davis Karney commit an act of self-immolation. He rigged his whole house to go up. Seriously, we had to smash his windows and jump without knowing how far the fall was. It felt like we were dropping forever—and then the ground was just there, and our asses were tumbling down the side of a ravine, down, down until the scrub caught us. And I just wanted to lay there, stare right into the sun and feel life again. Because we were dead in that house, see, as dead as you’d ever want to be. But there were sirens going down in Hollywood and that got us moving, even if we were collapse-on-your-face tired. We helped each other along a coyote path back toward the burning house. Only, to get on the property where there was no fence, we had to scale the steepest part of the hill. A real bitch, but easier than escaping certain death—just about everything is, right? Well, we made it as far as my Jeep before the back half of the mansion collapsed into the canyon. I had us through the front gate and halfway down Rising Moon before we ran into the fire trucks. Had to swerve into a driveway to avoid a head-on. Seriously, who designed those streets? A bobsled team? Imagine surviving all that madness, only to get flattened by the rescue party. Lucky for us, no one in those trucks even looked our way. We were just part of the caravan of neighbors getting the fuck out of Dodge. So we made it down to Sunset and didn’t stop till we got here to The Knickerbocker—and honestly, fellas, I haven’t seen Savy since she left the hotel.

Not going to a hospital had been her idea. Sitting in Sunset traffic, slowed all the more by the sight of engines and ladder trucks racing in from all directions and the apocalyptic pillar of smoke roiling up from one of Hollywood’s trendiest hills, Clay’s adrenaline had plummeted and his head pounded like a kick drum. Beside him, Savy looked like she’d been shot out of a cannon, her face dirty and her clothing lacerated, her hair afoul with branches and creosote leaves. Filthy and bare-chested, Clay had suggested they make for Cedars-Sinai, come clean about where they’d been, but Savy killed the idea on the spot. “Take a left here. Don’t argue.”

After a day of surprises, Clay was not the least surprised to find The Knickerbocker looming in the windshield. Savy snuck them in through a back entrance and they rode the service elevator to the 10th Floor. There, they passed along a corridor of open doorways, where old people sat watching TV or playing chess or muttering at ghosts Clay could not hear.

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