Immortal Brother Where Art Thou (The Immortality Curse Book 4) by Peter Glenn

Author:Peter Glenn [Glenn, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

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Part of my immortality curse involved faster than normal healing and an overall improved constitution. Not a lot faster than normal, it was more like allowing wounds that healed in weeks to heal in days instead, not minutes or anything, but it was typically a nice benefit.

Unless you wanted to get drunk. Then it was hell.

The improved constitution meant it took a lot of alcohol to get blind, stinking drunk. Much more than the average human. It was still possible, but boy did it take a large quantity of the stuff.

And on the flight to Perth, believe me I’d tried.

So it was that I half stumbled off the jetway, through the building, and into the massive parking lot of the airport on slightly unsteady legs. It was my brother’s fault, or at least that’s what I told myself. The damn fool had actually made good on his word and stayed silent the whole. Damn. Trip.

Not a word. Not even the tiniest hint of a peep had escaped his lips. And while talking to him wasn’t exactly all that amazing, not talking to him had somehow been worse. I kept watching him smiling at me—smiling, of all things—with this weird gleam in his eyes like he wanted me to say something but kept waiting for me to be the one to talk. So of course, I didn’t.

In a word, it was unbearable.

“So where next to?” I asked Taio and LaLuna as we walked along one of the long sidewalks. I’d messed up the order of the words just a little bit and hoped they wouldn’t notice.

“You okay, Damian?” LaLuna asked. “You look a little… flushed.”

I waved a hand dismissively. “I’m fine! Why do you ask?”

She bit her lip slightly. “No reason, I guess.”

“Well, good. Let’s keep it that way.” I put my hands on my hips in an overly flamboyant stern gesture. “I’m jusht fine.”

“Okay, Damian. Sorry I asked.” LaLuna backed up a bit and we soon kept walking.

Taio pointed ahead of us at a small building that had a yellow sign on top of it. “We need to procure transportation to the Julimar forest. We’re going to get a car.”

I nodded more fiercely than I probably should have. “Made sense.”

My brother shot me a partially disgusted look and sniffed at me. He placed one finger gingerly on my chest to halt my forward movement. “You can… remain outside and sober up a bit.”

No, you can sober up a bit, you little bitch. That’s what I wanted to say. But of course, it would have been stupid to say it, given that he hadn’t had a single drink the whole way down, and I was the one that was sloshed.

But it still would have felt good.

The three of us ambled over toward the small building while I wilted slightly under the intense sunlight. I’d heard that the southern hemisphere was warm during February, but I’m not sure I’d ever really believed it before now.

Yet here it was, eighty-some degrees, when it had been only twenty or so just the day before in Seattle.

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