Judge Not by Ciara Graves

Author:Ciara Graves [Graves, Ciara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Lela

Nathaniel was right. I was going crazy. I had to be. There I was walking through the wasteland with a demon on my right and a zombie on my left.

He hummed quietly, the half of his face remaining smiling.

“Why isn’t he attacking you?” I asked Tonamech after a while.

“Because I’m a good person,” the zombie, I believed his name to be Bobby, answered. “Not all of us in Hell wanted to be brought back, you know. Some of us were enjoying our time paying for our sins.”

“And you didn’t want to leave Hell?”

“As I said, no.” Bobby became a bit louder. He stopped and stared at me long and hard. His one remaining brow appeared to be furrowing but with the other one missing it was hard to tell. “I hope Mech’s right about you.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” My hand immediately went to the dagger at my hip, out of reflex. I was pretty sure I was about to walk into a trap.

Bobby didn’t seem angry anymore. Tired and frustrated but not angry. I could certainly take him on without a problem. Zombies were the weakest of the evil that spewed out of the rifts of Hell. Unless it was one against twenty. Then there were problems.

“Nothing,” Tonamech growled, eyeing the zombie. “Yet.”

“Where are we going anyway?”

“It’s not an ambush or a trap. But I do want to get inside the outpost before nightfall. Too much evil shit roams these woods.”

He had a point, but I crossed my arms and didn’t move.

He grunted and lessened the distance between us. “You agreed to come with me, remember? What have you got to lose?”

“My life for one.”

“If I wanted to kill you, I would’ve done so already.”

“No, you wouldn’t have, because I’m a commander and you need me for intel.”

He threw up his hands, then stormed away through the trees.

Bobby cackled, the sound raspy in his half-decayed throat, then he followed Tonamech. Leaves and sticks crunched underfoot as they walked away then were out of sight. Did he go through all that trouble to get me alone, to talk to me, just to leave me behind with no answers?

My frustration at how these last two days had turned out now reached a boiling point. My wings expanded from my back in a burst of holy light, and I shot into the sky, hovered over the trees until I spotted Tonamech and Bobby exiting the woods, then dove toward them.

I landed right in front of them, cutting off their path, the light from my wings chasing away the falling shadows of night.

“You’re really just going to walk away from me?”

Tonamech smirked. “I’m not sure what else you want from me. Unless of course, you keep coming back for my good looks.”

He raised his eyebrows, and the same heat I experienced when he touched my jaw rushed through me.

Cheeks burning, I glared at him, forcing all other emotions aside. “I want the answers you promised me.”

“Why should I give you anything? You’re not the only one in need of answers.

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