Fury Calling by Galenorn Yasmine

Author:Galenorn, Yasmine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC
Published: 2017-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

A COUPLE DAYS later, I was looking all over for Jason. I finally found him by the lake. He was flying over the water, soaring as the updraft caught him under the wings. Another hawk came into view, and circled him, playing. A noise from the water startled me. Leonard popped his head up, surfacing as he stood on the shoal that led up to the shore.

“Hey, Fury,” he said. He wiped the water out of his eyes and squinted against the sun. Then, pointing at the two hawks, he said, “That’s Mom and Uncle Jason, in case you didn’t know.”

“I figured one of them was Jason. Somebody told me he was out flying over the lake. I didn’t know your mother was with him.” I sat on one of the driftwood logs that lay across the beach, providing a handy seat from which to watch the water. I patted the seat next to me. “Come, sit down. We haven’t had the chance to talk for a while.”

He shook himself off like a puppy dog, splashing water every which way, then padded over, wincing as he crossed the pebbles.

“Damn, those are rough on the feet,” he said, sitting next to me. “So, here we are. Miles from nowhere.” Leonard was going through another growth spurt. He had added another four inches over the summer, and now he was almost as tall as Jason and definitely taller than me.

“You’re growing too fast.” I winked at him. “I remember when you were a baby and I babysat you. You loved your crib and never wanted out of there.”

“Oh, no. Not you too. Mom never lets up on how big I’m getting.” He licked his lips, staring at the ground. “I wish I was an adult.”

“Don’t wish away time. It goes too fast as it is.”

“I suppose, but I just want the freedom to go after what I want. But my life isn’t going quite the way I thought it would.”

I patted his arm. “None of us are going to live the lives we thought we were.”

“Yeah…” He paused. “Do you miss it? The city?”

“Yeah, I do. But it’s gone, and all that’s left there is death and decay. And zombies.”

“And zombies.” Another pause. Then, “Fury, can I ask you something?”

I nodded. “I don’t promise to answer, but of course you can ask.”

“You were younger than me when you first came to live with my uncle, right?”

“I was thirteen.” I glanced at him. He looked like he was debating asking something. “What is it, Len? What do you want to know?”

“I just… When my mom starts bugging the hell out of me, I guess, I think about you. You don’t have a mother. You lost her when you were barely a teenager. Do you think I’m a bad person because sometimes I wish I didn’t have a mother?”

The angst of youth. It never failed to raise its head, whether in the inner city or out in the wilds. I tried to hide my smile.

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