Fatal Retribution (Raina Kirkland Book 1) by Diana Graves

Author:Diana Graves [Graves, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

ETHEREAL INVESTIGATIONS

THE SKYLINE WAS glowing red as we approached Seattle. The moon was waxing behind thin grey clouds, and the stars were all but lost in the city lights as we took our exit. The overpasses were thick with green vines, and trees grew where they could, between old buildings and twisted roads. Much of the city was dead at this hour, but the parts that were alive, were very alive. Those oases of life reminded me of Darkness, and how alive it was at night. But, with thoughts of Darkness, came thoughts of Nick and I began to cry softly in the dark of Ruy’s Jeep. If he noticed, he made no sign of it.

We finally pulled up to a Doctor Jackal/ Mr. Hide of a building, the Justice Center. It was half court house, half Seattle’s Police Department. The court house half had a wall of glass windows, beautiful water fountains, and modern pieces of art in shades of cranberry red, celery green and cream. But, we walked past all that loveliness to reach the dramatically uninspiring half of the same building, the police department. Blah. The interior of SPD matched the exterior. It was thoroughly just as boring. We walked up to a counter, where a man sat behind a sheet of bullet proof glass. Ruy gave him his gun and knife. I gave him a small thingy of mace I kept on my key-chain.

When Ruy walked through the metal detector I expected it to go off for some reason, but it didn’t. It took me three goes and the removal of everything but my shirt and pants, and it still beeped at me. The guard attending the metal detector gave up after a pat-down produced nothing. What metal did I have on? The world may never know…

“You heading to EI?” the guard asked. EI stands for the Ethereal Investigation department. It’s police for preternatural people and its called Ethereal, like we’re not real. That’s fucked up. “Cause, if you are, you’re going to have to take the stairs. The elevators are all down for maintenance.”

Ruy nodded to the guard. “Sure they are,” he said under his breath, and we walked on.

Ruy thought the guard was lying just to mess with us, but sure enough there were signs on the elevators proclaiming their out of order status. “Shit,” Ruy thought. The stairs were just to the left of the elevators.

“How far up is it?” I asked. Ruy held up his index and middle fingers and thumb. It was just my luck that the department was three stories up. Shit, indeed. I knew that being scared to climb the stairs didn’t make sense, but I couldn’t help it. I breathed deep and kept telling myself over and over again that I was calm and relaxed, but I had a death grip on the railing. My knees were weak and my head was spinning.

“Are you going to be all right?” Ruy asked.

“Peachy.” I rolled my eyes up to meet his and even that small movement made me nauseous.

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