Forever and a Doomsday by Laurence MacNaughton

Author:Laurence MacNaughton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forever and a Doomsday
ISBN: 9781633885561
Publisher: Pyr
Published: 2018-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

18

DRIVING RANE

Dru huddled behind Greyson’s body as he pushed her away from the roaring blue flames and toward Hellbringer. The long, black demon car waited in the tiny alley lot behind the shop, engine revving with impatience. She could hear it, but she couldn’t see it.

Without her glasses, everything more than an arm’s length away was a threatening blur in the night. The wraith-induced power blackout had darkened the entire block. The only source of light was the crackling magical flames behind them. They lit the narrow space between buildings with an unearthly flicker and threw jumping shadows in every direction.

Greyson’s strong hands guided her, and she stumbled along.

“Are you okay?” he said.

Dru coughed and waved ineffectively at the smoky air. “Think so. Except I can’t see a thing.”

His hand swam into focus, holding a gratifyingly familiar object: her glasses.

Thankfully, she slipped them back onto her face and was rewarded with Greyson’s lopsided smile. “How did you—?”

“I can see in the dark.” His fiery eyes swiveled toward Hellbringer. “Come on!”

The speed demon’s doors were already swinging open. Dru jumped into the passenger seat of the old black car. Greyson slid into the driver’s seat beside her and shoved the chrome lever into gear. With a peal of screaming tires, they launched down the alley.

Clutching the scroll tight against her chest, Dru stared out the window at the total darkness and wondered if this is what the end of the world would look like.

They reached the end of the alley, and Greyson spun the wheel. Hell-bringer’s long tail, with its tall wing, slewed around with a howl of tortured tires. They swung around the corner, circling toward the front of the shop.

She gripped the armrest so tightly that it hurt. But despite the fear pounding through her, the analytical part of her brain realized that the end of the world would actually be much hotter than this. Towering flames. Boiling oceans. Stars falling.

She knew, because she had combed through every book she could find containing the lore of the apocalypse, and taken copious notes—filed under “E” for Eschatology—but there was more to it than that. She hadn’t just studied the end times. She had seen the opening volleys of it firsthand.

On three separate occasions, three different threats had pushed the world right up to the edge of doomsday. First came the Four Horsemen. Then, legions of the dead had risen from the grave. And after that, everything was nearly destroyed by an all-consuming earthquake.

Three doomsdays averted so far, and each one had come closer than the last. Sooner or later, their luck would run out. She was starting to think that had already happened. Especially when she saw Rane lying in the rubble of her destroyed shop.

At the sight of her, Dru’s heart leaped into her throat. Rane was physically the toughest and strongest person Dru had ever known. To see her sprawled out on the ground, her towering body tossed aside like a broken toy, was almost too jarring to comprehend.

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