Ghosts of Alda by Russell Archey

Author:Russell Archey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781631123092
Publisher: 5 Prince Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

A VOICE CUT through the raging battle. Even through her screams, she heard a profoundly normal, physical voice. It seemed so long since she last heard one that it was unmistakable; a green island in a vast ocean. She went silent, falling over and catching herself with one hand. Gulps of air filled her lungs and raked against her raw throat. As she stared at the ground, listening, dark drops pattered on the hard surface before her. Something blurred her vision, and she had to blink several times before it cleared. She tapped at the drops with her fingers and lifted them close to look at them due to her hazy vision. It was blood; she was crying blood. She wiped frantically at her face, seeing the crimson streaks left behind on her hands.

“Remember me?” a voice called out. It was distant, barely audible.

Her vision was clearer, and she saw the feather-like ragged cloak of the entity droop into flaccid strips, no longer billowing in the wind. The dipped cowl rose sharply; whoever it was certainly had the entity’s full attention.

Cockroach. Buzzing, droning insolence

“There’s another one of us in there, isn’t there?” the voice said, shouting at the scourge of Felkirk. In an instant, the figure melted into the breeze like oil swept away in water. It reappeared on the outer wall, facing away from Lyra.

You will be consumed

“No, I won’t. And neither will the other person in there. You can’t claim them, can you? All your cosmic power, and you can’t claim the morsel so precious to you.”

The voice was male, young, and spoke with derision.

“If you can hear me, I’ll get you out. I promise!” He shouted even louder, knowing someone waited inside.

Mine

The entity’s voice growled.

Leave

A rumbling shook the ground and worked in Lyra’s chest.

Leave

Lyra thought she heard a scream come from the other side of the wall. The cowled thing looked as it always did, with no outward displays giving away its disposition. The way it seethed as it told whoever was on the other side of the wall to leave spoke plenty to its anger, though.

She realized her legs and body were free to move again. It took great effort to stand; her extremities were all numb, but she managed. Wherever the figure was focused, that’s where the other person was. They said they wanted to help get her out, so she moved for the outer wall as fast as her legs would allow; no more than an awkward stumble yet again. The rumbling continued, throwing her off to the side to fall heavily against the walls of buildings.

“Oh gods,” she moaned. She’d caught herself against a wall, and the force spun her back around to face behind herself. The rumbling was such that she couldn’t hear the thousands of hands once again working in unison to create the horrible whispering, nor the staccato stifled screams of the tumorous figures that filled the streets behind her.

The slimy-skinned corpses from the crossroads began crawling from the stones once more, this time by the hundreds.

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