How to Tame a Human Tornado by Paul Tobin

Author:Paul Tobin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619639003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Five blocks later, with me flying along via my jetbelt, a thousand pigeons and a multitude of other birds suddenly took to the air from below, flapping desperately.

“Why did they—” I started to think, but then the ground began to shake and the buildings began to quiver. A few windows broke, then the trembling quit, and the birds went back to their perches.

A few blocks later, a much stronger tremor cracked a big line across the middle of Rathbun Street. A broken water main sent water bursting into the air. More windows were shattering. A wall collapsed. The neon sign for the Laurelhurst Theater wrenched free of its moorings and toppled toward a group of people standing in line. I put on a burst of speed and swooped lower, grabbing people as fast as I could, moving them aside, a blur in the air as the huge sign cracked free of the building, ripping free from the bricks and the mortar, with people screaming and panicking, but everyone was moving so slowly, frozen in place by confusion, which is why I train all the time, because you have to be ready when the unexpected happens, when the buildings are shaking, when you have to save people like I was doing, straining my muscles to take two or even three people at a time as the huge sign came crashing down, with me dropping them safely away and hurtling back for more, yelling for everyone to run, with Melville stinging them so they’d move faster, so they’d snap out of the daze of horror they were in, with me moving so fast that I was an unrecognizable blur in the air, rushing people out of the path of the oncoming sign until it was barely above the sidewalk and there was only one person left and I could feel the broken steel of the plummeting sign grazing my back as I grabbed up the last person and then there was a tug on my legs as the sign slammed into the sidewalk, nipping at my feet, but I pulled him away just in time, although we went into a spin as the two of us flew onward, the panicked move unbalancing me so that I lost control and we clipped the top of a parked car and went tumbling to the sidewalk.

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