Judgment (The Alternate Earth Series, Book 3) by S.J. West

Author:S.J. West [West, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Watchers Publishing
Published: 2015-09-27T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

My first instinct is to tell Mason to phase us back to the castle. Unfortunately, that isn’t actually an option for us anymore. I turn around to look at all the innocent people trapped on the doomed beach. With a raging fire in the background, and now a tsunami heading directly towards us, there’s nowhere for them to escape.

“Do we have time to evacuate these people?” I ask, even though I fear I already know the answer to my own question. In the background, I can hear the distant roar of the mountainous wave heading straight for the beach like a freight train.

“There isn’t enough time,” Mason tells me. “I’m not even sure where we would take them. We’re already running out of space at the castle.”

“I might know of somewhere,” Nina says just before she phases. Within a few seconds she returns, “It seems safe there. At least there aren’t any fires burning. Besides, I don’t think beggars can be choosers today.”

“If we start now,” Jered says, “we can at least save some of them.”

“I think we can save them all,” Nina declares, turning to Rafe. “When we were in the salt mines, I saw you morph water into different shapes with your power.”

I remember the moment Nina is talking about. It was the time Rafe was entertaining everyone by making different animal shapes from the water in the underground lake.

“I’ve never tried to control this much water before,” Rafe says, like Nina’s suggestion is an impossible one.

“You don’t have to control it all,” she tells him. “Just control enough to make a dome of water over us. While you protect us, we can phase these people to a safer place.”

“Where, exactly?” Mason asks.

Instead of answering, Nina grabs Mason’s arm and phases. They both phase back almost immediately.

“As good a place as any, I suppose,” Mason says, not sounding too enthusiastic about the location Nina has chosen. “We need to get these people closer together, though, so we can phase large groups of them at one time.”

I look out at the faces of the strangers on the beach as they watch the horror of the approaching tsunami.

“They’re too scared to listen to us,” I say to the group.

“Maybe I can help with that,” Chandler suggests, drawing out his flute from his back pocket and immediately bringing it up to his lips.

The song Chandler plays fills me with a few different emotions, telling me that he’s weaving together more than one tune at once. I instantly feel at peace, even with the largest tsunami in recorded human history about to crash down over our heads. I also feel a need to gather with the other humans on the beach, as if our closeness to one another will insure our survival. I physically see the effect Chandler’s music is having on the others as they walk towards us.

I turn back around, bracing myself for what I’m about to see because the roaring has just gotten a lot louder. The wave reminds me of the first time I saw the Empire State Building.

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