Fear's Touch by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams [Adams, Emma L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Published: 2016-07-06T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Next morning—well, afternoon, really; I’d slept through my lecture—I sent Cyrus a text with the gist of what had happened. Hell, if anyone could help, it was him. For bonus points, he was on campus and had nothing to do with the Venantium.

Cyrus replied immediately, asking if I wanted an emergency meeting. That day. He’d picked the Games Room as our future bolt-hole—a small room inside the common room, tucked away in a place everyone forgot about apart from members of GameSoc. I said yes and then went to find Berenice.

I knocked on her door for five minutes, my worry increasing by the second, before I heard a groan. Then footsteps and the sound of the bolts unlocking before the door opened a fraction. Her sleepy face appeared.

“What?”

Relief shot through me. “Just checking you were okay.”

“No, I’m not okay. This hangover’s a bitch.”

“Still. Could be worse. Do you remember last night?”

A shadow seemed to fall over her face. “Yes.”

“Specifics?” I pushed. “Look, I know you don’t want to talk about it, but, well, Cyrus and I are meeting up later. I told him. He can help us.”

“No one can help me,” she said, flatly.

I felt a pang. Without her make-up on and her hair ruffled from sleeping, she looked younger than she really was. A kid, being hunted by monsters.

“He can,” I said. “After you left, we talked about how to use Influence. He can teach us. If you learn that, you can hide from them. The shadow-beasts won’t be able to see you.”

Her eyes widened. “Seriously?”

I nodded. “Yeah.”

Honestly, I didn’t really know whether Influence worked the same way on shadow-beasts as it did on people. But at the very least I could share how to use Influence. I hadn’t realized just how valuable my parents’ lessons had really been.

A pause. “Okay, then. Tell him I’ll be there.”

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