Forest Ghost by Graham Masterton

Author:Graham Masterton [Graham Masterton]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2013-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Unhappy Ending

After Krystyna had left him to call for help, Jack cautiously re-entered the forest. The moon was still shining brightly, but within minutes it would glide down behind the jagged treetops and disappear, and it was already too gloomy for him to penetrate more than two hundred meters without losing his bearings. The last thing he wanted to do was get lost himself.

Before he started calling out for Sparky, he stood perfectly still and listened, just to make sure that he couldn’t hear any rustling or any footsteps or any unnatural breeze blowing. Now, however, even the owls were silent, and the only sound was the creaking of the trees and the furtive burrowing of pine voles.

‘Sparky!’ he shouted out. ‘Sparky! Where are you, Sparks? It’s Dad here!’

He gave a piercing two-fingered whistle and then shouted out again. ‘Sparks! It’s Dad here! Where are you, son?’

He whistled twice more, and then listened. Nothing, except for some pine cones dropping.

Next he called out for Borys and Lidia, and whistled for Diablik, too. Again, nothing. He might just as well have been alone.

He was still shouting and whistling when he heard twigs crackling, somewhere to his left. At first it was too shadowy for him to see who it was, but eventually a pale figure appeared out of the darkness, walking directly toward him. He was about to shout out, ‘Hold it right there! I have a gun!’ but then he realized that it was Sparky.

‘Sparks!’ he said, and hurried toward him. He wrapped his arms around him and gave him a hug. Unusually, Sparky didn’t respond, but kept his arms dangling by his sides and made no attempt to kiss him.

‘Hey, buddy, are you OK? For a moment there, we seriously thought we’d lost you!’

‘I wasn’t lost. Where’s Krystyna?’

‘She’s gone to get help. We still don’t know what’s happened to Borys and Lidia. I just wish I hadn’t dropped my goddamned flashlight.’

‘They’re dead. I knew they were going to die.’

‘They’re dead? How can you know that?’

‘Didn’t you hear those shots? They’re both dead, and Diablik, too. Borys shot them, and then himself.’

‘You didn’t see him do it, though?’

‘No.’ Sparky seemed strangely disinterested, and not at all frightened any longer.

Jack said, ‘Come on, Sparks … Borys could have just let off a few shots to scare off whatever was chasing after us.’

‘No, he didn’t. I saw it in the stars. They were very specific. They said that one thing could lead to another.’

‘What does that mean?’

‘If we found Robert, the duch would find us.’

‘The ghost?’

‘Yes … and if that happened, the stars said that two of us would die. That’s why I wanted us to keep on running. I didn’t want us to die – not you and me, or you and Krystyna.’

‘Jesus, Sparks, why didn’t you tell me this before we went looking for Robert? I mean, you practically encouraged us to go look for him, didn’t you? We were just going to take his feet with us and go for help.

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