Grey October (East Hollow Chronicles) by Charlotte Munro

Author:Charlotte Munro [Munro, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charlotte Munro
Published: 2014-02-13T06:00:00+00:00

Evander –

The lights pulse above me, flashing blue, red and green; the electrical burr coming from the speakers all the way around the room fills me with a throb of energy. But I know better than to think it’s the music or the strobe lights. It’s the emotions that fuel me here, humans with their happiness, their drunkenness, every little slither of emotion pulses through my veins. Their blood is my blood, their excitement mine as well. No, not that part. My excitement is far from theirs. Absorbing a soul, transporting it into a small vial, signing contracts with a droplet of blood – that is my excitement. This life in East Hollow, my second life, as a human, this is my excitement.

Not the silly drunken games of humans. Not the silly little love affairs of girls and their boys.

This is what I keep telling myself, as each minute ticks by. As each song pulses into a new one of insane bass drops and strange computer generated noises. This is what my façade is all about, but inside, inside my hollow body, beats a blackened heart, somewhere, somewhere hidden. I know it’s there, occasionally I can feel it twinge, I feel a tug inside of my chest, a weak pull, but it is there. And it is only there when I see that girl, when I see that sister’s innocent eyes, those tears that roll like a river of sorrow. I want to show her that her sorrow is misplaced, I want to show her just how her sister feels, that she still wants Elli in those cells first, not her.

‘Evan, you’ve been lost to us for a while now. What’s up dude?’ Kaiser swings his burly arm around me, through the pulse of the music and the flash of lights above, I see his teeth glimmer from an expansive grin, hear his words mangled with the throb of bass.

‘You wanted to come here. You said extra credit for the future. I don’t see you binding any contracts. Not like last time, at least.’ Alpheus rolls his tongue. His voice echoes from within the surrounds of his glass tumbler. The clink of ice against the side draws my eyes from the myriad of lights back down to the table, where I see a droplet of water run down the side of his glass. Slipping along the smooth edge and trickling onto the table.

‘The clock’s ticking and I am nowhere near having her in my sight.’

‘The sister?’ Kai asks, but his eyes follow a blonde who has just staggered past on sky high heels and a very, very small dress. I shake my head and laugh, looking down at my hands in my lap, staring at the ring with the red pentagram.

‘The sister.’ I murmur, watching as Alphie leans over towards me, pushing my full glass of whisky closer to the edge of the table.

‘Is she proving difficult?’

‘She’s not like the other one.’ I tell, squinting against the red flash of light, lowering my eyes for a moment, trailing over the melting ice in the tumbler.

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