In the Shadow of Dragons (Aftermagic Book 1) by Bateman Sonya

Author:Bateman, Sonya [Bateman, Sonya]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: rebels, paranormal, dragons, corporations, goblins, superhero, alternate history, wizard, elf, romance, Witch, sword, epic, psychics, alternate realms, dwarf, drugs, sorcery, resistance, post-apocalyptic, quest, good versus evil, trolls, thriller, urban fantasy, mystery, magic, dystopian, eclipse, knights
Published: 2017-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 31

Yukon Street Clinic

August 10, 10:15 a.m.

When Naomi started looking into things, she’d hoped to find that everything was still the way she thought it was. The familiar mess of the world was at least better than the unknown new fears planted in her over the last few days. But the more she read, the saner Scott Madden seemed.

She’d wanted him to be crazy. Because if he wasn’t, then everything he told her was true.

For the last half-hour or so she’d been in her office on her computer, reading and watching reports about the Darkspawn. Shipments attacked, supplies destroyed, dead-or-alive rewards offered — like they were gunslingers and horse thieves straight out of the Old West. All the reports used words like dangerous, bloody and violent as liberally as punctuation, and some of them peppered in terms like heinous, evil, and monstrous.

But the actual casualties were few and far between. Zero at clinics and pharmacies — those ‘attacks’ were always carried out overnight, in locations with no staff or customers present, and the only thing ever taken or damaged was HeMo. As for the shipments from BiCo, the Darkspawn never targeted trucks while they were in residential areas. They struck along low-traffic routes. No civilians or bystanders had been hurt. So far she’d counted four actual deaths attributed to the Darkspawn, all patrol officers. All very likely self-defense.

BiCo easily killed far more people than these so-called terrorists did.

Still, there were other stories. Other reports, long on theory but short on facts. The Darkspawn were stockpiling HeMo to experiment with aggressive overdoses and cure Changers. Or they were secretly working for BiCo to create scarcity, even as Julian Bishop insisted the Darkspawn activity wouldn’t affect the price of HeMo.

Of course, even that looked suspicious if it was viewed with the idea that HeMo was actually poison.

She’d just clicked on an article about a ‘savage’ attack last June that resulted in injuries and untold carnage — literally untold, since the article didn’t actually detail any carnage — when Aileen entered the room with a perfunctory knock. “You have a walk-in, dear,” she said. “That poor little boy whose mother … well, you know. He’s running a fever. Oh, and do you have any spare pens in here?”

“Probably.” She started opening desk drawers, not sure which one she’d squirreled the pens away in. “You mean Robbie Harris?”

“That’s the one.” Aileen moved closer and peered at her computer screen. Her features wrinkled in faint disgust. “Ugh. Those awful people,” she said. “Please tell me there hasn’t been another attack.”

She forced herself not to react defensively. Aileen had no idea what she knew, and she wanted to keep it that way. “No new attacks,” she said. “I’m just doing a little research.”

“Why would you want to do that?”

“I don’t know. I guess I’m trying to make sense of it all.” She found a box of blue stick pens at the back of the second drawer down, pulled it out and handed it to Aileen. “Here you go.

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