Fearless (The Blue Fire Saga) by Prussing Scott

Author:Prussing, Scott [Prussing, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scott Prussing Publishing
Published: 2012-06-04T22:00:00+00:00

21. VERIFICATION

Sunday night, it was all over the news. Just as Leesa had foreseen in her dream, zombies had attacked people in a mall in Columbus. Fortunately, the police managed to destroy the creatures before they hurt too many people. At least one of the cops had known enough to shoot for the zombie’s heads, and the other cops had followed his example. At first, the officers had tried to stop the things by pulling them away, but after one policeman got his arm ripped open by a vicious bite, the police had turned to their weapons. The wounded officer was being held under close observation at a local hospital. The media had not been allowed to see him.

Only one person had died—an Ohio State football player who had been at the front of the group of shoppers trying to hold the door closed against the zombies. The authorities were not calling them zombies—the official line was they were people who had been ravaged by some fast acting flesh-eating bacteria—but the most of the news people were not so discreet. The more reserved among them were calling the attackers “zombie-like creatures.” The rest had no such reservations and called the attackers zombies, plain and simple. Leesa wasn’t surprised. Zombies made for juicier headlines and sound bites than even flesh-eating bacteria.

Sitting on her bed, she glumly watched the reports on her television. Cali sat beside her, having come racing upstairs as soon as she first heard about the story. She was one of the few people who knew about Leesa’s zombie dreams, and she realized that anything concerning zombies would have an effect on her friend.

“I can’t believe this,” Cali said when the latest report went to commercial. “It’s like something out of a freaking horror flick.”

“I know,” Leesa replied. She turned and looked at Cali. “I dreamed about this Friday night.”

Cali grabbed Leesa’s forearm.

“Oh, no! Really?”

Leesa nodded. “Yeah. I even knew that if it happened, it would be in Columbus.” She breathed a deep sigh. “There wasn’t anything I could do, though. Who could I tell? And who would have believed me, anyhow? And besides, I didn’t know when it would happen, or even if it really would.”

Since Cali didn’t know about Leesa’s magic powers, Leesa didn’t say anything about how her efforts to summon a far different dream had resulted in this one instead.

“Of course you couldn’t do anything,” Cali said consolingly. “People would have thought you were a nut job.”

“Yeah, I know,” Leesa replied. “And they wouldn’t have done anything, anyhow.”

“Nope, they wouldn’t. But now that it’s happened, people would have been all over you, wanting to know how you knew. I’m pretty sure you don’t want that kind of attention—especially with Rave being what he is and with what happened to your mom and brother.”

“That’s for sure,” Leesa said.

Beyond the reasons Cali had mentioned, there was no way Leesa could afford to bring attention to anything that smelled of wizard powers, not with three black waziri out there alert for any hint of magic.

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