Foretold by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-27T13:24:22+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A slight electrical buzz filtered through the wind.

The stinging pulse pricked my skin, seeped into

pores—made me feel itchy and dirty. Closing my

eyes, I sniffed. Didn’t smell lavender.

That didn’t mean anything, though.

Magic had joined the party.

The warehouse went dark when the fire was

suddenly extinguished by a fall of heavy snow. Lily

made a whimpering noise in the back of her throat.

Everyone stood still, the only noise the moaning of

the wind, the loud thudding of snow on the intact

parts of the roof. When Tucker moved, his coat

swished against the brick wall and I nearly crawled

out of my skin. He flipped open his cell phone,

held it up to share the light. Randy and Lily did the

same. “There isn’t any reception,” Lily murmured.

That was probably because of the magic. It

sometimes messed with electronics. But I wasn’t

sharing that with these people. Vanir hadn’t in-

troduced any of them as family, and if his was

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anything like mine, we didn’t share any of our su-

pernatural knowledge with outsiders.

“What’s outside, Rose?” I asked.

“I don’t know.” Her voice was hoarse and it

cracked on the last word. “I don’t know what that

is.”

I stepped closer to Vanir, glad for his warmth

when he put his arm around my shoulders and

pulled me close.

Outside, that shriek came again. It raked down

my spine, making me shiver because it sounded

like a mix of person and animal...like nothing I’d

heard before. “Sounds kind of female,” I mur-

mured, hunching into my borrowed coat. Vanir

tightened his arm. I was absolutely positive I didn’t

want to go out there.

Rose dropped her backpack, wrapped her arms

around her middle. “I think it is.”

“You think? It? I’m sure I don’t want to know why you said that,” Tucker said, even though he

walked toward the door.

“Well, I want to know.” Randy got there first.

“Don’t open the door.” Rose shoved him out

of her way and ran to the piles of firewood in the

corner. She slipped and went down before reach-

ing them, her butt smacking loudly on the snow-

covered concrete floor. I winced. Vanir let me go

to help her up and it wasn’t my imagination that

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she held on a little too long before she gingerly

walked to the piles. Heavy chunks of wood thun-

ked to the cement floor as she dug through it. I

could see her hands shaking in the light from the

cell phones. “There’s a place on the door for a two-

by-four. I know I saw one in this pile. We have to

bar the door!”

“From what? What is it, Rose?” Lily slipped and

slid to her side, put her hand on her sister’s shoul-

der. “Stop. We’re going to have to sneak out of

here somehow—get to a place where the phones

work. You’re not thinking straight.”

I looked at Vanir, caught the mirrored logic in

his gaze. We both knew that with magic involved

no flimsy piece of wood would keep us safe. And

getting out of here would probably be trickier than

just sneaking out of the only door in the place.

A groaning metallic sound came from outside,

like a layer of metal being peeled from a car. We

all froze.

“Hell with this!” Randy opened the door.

Wind-driven snow slammed through, knocking

everyone back a step.

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