Fallow Heart by K.C. Finn

Author:K.C. Finn [Finn, K.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odd Voice Out
Published: 2018-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Treatment, and its side effects

Huw was still in hospital, but his many wounds were healing. Lori’s mother had told her that he was in an induced coma whilst the painkillers got him through the worst of it. It was Tuesday, and it would be a few days more before the old Welshman was awake enough to think, let alone recount the tale of what had attacked him. Lori had some time to figure things out before then, and she couldn’t waste a minute more. Since the funeral, her mother had confined her to the caravan, but without Granddad to drive them down to the treatment centre, she had to send Lori there in a taxi. For once, Lori was grateful of her mother’s drinking, for her post-funeral binge had made her too queasy to go with her that morning.

The D.C.’s covert little medical centre came into view as the cab pulled up. The two police cars were parked up, which meant Michaela was already inside. As Lori got out of the car and gave the driver his money, she watched a dark figure in a long coat crossing to the doors. The figure was fairly short and the coat was far too thick for the time of year, its hood pulled up right over the head. When it reached the double doors of the centre, it peeped around for a moment. Owe’s dark face shone out from under the hood.

“Your change, love,” the cabby said.

“Keep it,” Lori replied absently.

She was already walking towards the centre, watching Owe disappear through the doors. In moments she was at the desk beside the other girl, getting her name ticked off by the same receptionist who’d been there the week before. Owe flashed her a look, large eyes hooded by her dark brow. The reddish tinge to her skin was still present this close up.

“I didn’t think you’d be back,” Lori said, handing her bag over to the receptionist.

Owe wriggled a dark brow.

“Yeah? Why’s that?”

They walked a few paces from the desk, settling into a corner of the empty waiting room.

“What you said last time,” Lori answered. “You said this place was pointless, because the demons come back.”

It was the ‘d’ word that seemed to take effect. No sooner it had left her lips, Lori saw Owe shoot a look to the receptionist then back at her. She blinked. Lori started for a moment. She’d forgotten about the sideways eyelids. The girl leaned in a little closer.

“Cut it out,” she snapped, “you’ll get me kicked out again.”

“Why?” Lori asked, folding her arms. “Because we’re not supposed to call those ‘creatures’ what they really are?”

Owe rocked back into her seat. She brought her feet up into the cross-legged position that Lori had seen before, readjusting the folds of the thick coat over her legs. Lori wiped the back of her neck with her palm.

“Aren’t you boiling in that thing?” she asked.

The other girl shook her head.

“I run cold,” she replied. “Don’t you remember what you

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