Forces from Beyond by Green Simon R

Author:Green, Simon R.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

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They left the garage, and JC locked it up carefully. There was still no-one around. Somewhere along the way, Kim disappeared. JC didn’t say anything, so everyone else took their cue from him. Apart from Chang, of course.

“What is the matter with her? Why does she have to keep vanishing on us?”

“Maybe it’s the company,” said Melody.

“I think she gets car-sick,” said JC.

They all piled back into the limousine, and the chauffeur drove off at speed, racing through the London streets with even more disregard for the rules of the road than before, as though determined to make up for lost time. Even if he had to drive right over the cars in front of him. Melody produced a flick-knife and carved her initials and Happy’s, surrounded by a heart, into the expensive leather upholstery. Chang pretended not to notice. Happy looked out the side window, but JC couldn’t tell what he was looking at. Or even if he was looking at something in this world. More and more it seemed to JC that, between his lucid patches, Happy was becoming increasingly distant. JC looked to Latimer, but she was lost in her own thoughts again.

The ride went on for some time, with no-one saying anything to anyone. Eventually, JC realised the car was driving through a far more up-market area. Expensive cars moved elegantly around the limousine, like so many technicolor fish in a murky ocean. Men and women on the street wore the latest fashions, with style and elegance and cold superiority. The limousine finally slowed to a halt outside a blandly anonymous office building, with a small brass name-plate: Baphomet House.

“Welcome to the Headquarters of the Crowley Project!” Chang said grandly. “World domination a speciality!”

“Is it too late to inquire about safe words?” said JC.

Catherine Latimer surprised him then with a sharp bark of laughter.

“This can only go well,” said Happy.

They all got out of the limousine and gathered together to carefully consider Baphomet House. It seemed pleasant enough, just another place where business was done. Nothing about its benign facade and warmly lit windows to draw the attention. Chang smiled at how unimpressed they all were.

“We can’t all live at the back of a Palace.”

Happy scowled at the building and shook his head slowly. “I don’t like the feel of this place. It’s beyond Sick Building Syndrome, more like Really Sick, Border-line Psychotic and Heading for Feral Syndrome. Sorry, JC; I’m going to have to shut down. In my current state, that place would eat me alive.”

Melody glared at Chang. “No-one better try anything in there. I have guns. And other things.”

“So do I!” Chang said cheerfully. “Girls together!”

“You know,” said Melody. “You’re even creepier when you’re trying to be chummy.”

“It’s a gift,” said Chang. “Now, follow me everybody. Stick close, smile at everyone, while feeling perfectly free to kick the crap out of anybody who gives you a hard time.

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