Heaven's Night by Harry Aderton

Author:Harry Aderton [Aderton, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Epic
ISBN: 9780985324315
Publisher: Aderton Prime LLC
Published: 2013-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

I opened my eyes and nearly stumbled.

The world enclosed about me abruptly, suffocating me. It was if I wore a fleshly cocoon around my soul, heavy and constricting. My heart raced and I felt it pumping in my chest, blood undulating through my body. My lungs sucked in deep breaths of air, the movement foreign and laborious. My angelic senses dulled by infinite degrees as if a coarse bag, heavy and thick, had been placed over my head with only pinpricks in the fabric to see through, smell through, taste through, and hear through.

My mouth felt dry, lips cracked. I licked my lips with a lolling and swollen tongue, feeling them sting at the touch. I then ran my tongue along my crooked and rotting teeth, brushing against flecks of meat embedded between my molars. A foul and acrid taste filled my mouth, a thick sticky layer of mucous coated my tongue. My breath reeked and I snorted, almost gagging from the stench of it.

But it was my lack of wings that nearly panicked me. A piece of me was missing. I thought I could sense them still, phantom appendages that should be there. Involuntarily I stretched forth my wings. And nothing happened. Stricken, I glanced skyward longingly. The sky was forever lost to me. I had never been without it. I felt imprisoned, chained to the ground.

Lucifer was right, nothing could have prepared me for this.

A mind numbing terror seized me. It took me a moment to notice that it didn’t belong to me. The emotions belonged to the soul of Malak as he recovered from the shock of having another invade his mind, his body.

A strangled cry escaped my mouth. I collapsed to the earth, my limbs flailing, my body convulsing, as Malak tried to expel me.

I crushed him instantly and banished him to the corner of his mind, far away from any conscious use of his body.

The spasms calmed instantly. I relaxed, my breathing heavy, as I lay on my back. My skin itched in a dozen different places, my feet ached, my head throbbed. I opened my eyes, not even aware they were squeezed shut.

I stared at the swaying tops of the trees, the slow moving and swollen clouds drifting high above, and wondered how anyone could see with such limited vision. The panorama I was used to with my astral sight felt as if it had been slammed shut and any remaining spiritual intuition I had vanished completely. The world felt unnatural, obscene. I was no longer a master of creation but a helpless victim. All I was aware of was this abhorrent body with its multitude of limitations.

How could any soul endure such a miserable prison of flesh? How could such bodies ever properly reflect our angelic selves?

A face suddenly loomed above me.

Strong hands gripped my arms and hauled me to my feet. I stared into an elongated face, half ape, half angel, similar to this body’s own. Dark and piercing eyes gazed back at me from beneath thick brows as if they huddled beneath a ledge.

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