Lady Luck by Dean Floyd

Author:Dean Floyd [Floyd, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ghost urban fantasy, Action Adventure Urban Fantasy, monster slayer urban fantasy
Publisher: Dean Floyd
Published: 2019-09-13T22:00:00+00:00

13 Kite Night

Thick, bubble letter style graffiti etched its way across Berkeley warehouses, names whizzing by us like subtitles, the voice of the city in visible form. The freeway separated the city from the Bay’s edge. On the horizon to our right a thick wall of fog taller than any San Francisco skyscraper closed in around the Golden Gate Bridge. The moon flew high in the sky, peeking out behind dark clouds.

"So how do you know this guy again?" I asked.

"He's a friend of mine," said Rob. "We go way back."

The wizard frowned. "Somehow I'm not so sure of that.”

"This is the exit," said Rob.

I exited the freeway heading out towards the Berkeley waterfront. The Berkeley waterfront was a man-made peninsula strip of land with a hill that was perfect for kite flying. In fact there was a shack that sold and rented kites for people to fly daily. So why we were coming here at night was anyone's guess.

"Are you sure this is the right place, Rob?"

He whistled an annoying folksy tune to himself. "Yep."

Of course the parking lot gate was locked so I had to do my standard park on the side of the fence and hope I didn't get towed away gag. As soon as I stepped out of the car my Keening sensation tingled. It wasn’t a full on burning like it did when a monster was right on top of me, but it was there nonetheless. "Let's be on our guard," I said to the group. "I sense something."

"It's probably just my friend, Iarfhlaith."

“Ear-lah. How do you spell that?”

“You don’t want to know,” said Rob. “Wouldn’t even begin to make sense.”

Rob was such an airhead sometimes, I didn't really believe him, or trust his judgment. But apparently this guy, Iarfhlaith, knew this side of the Bay Area like the back of his hand, and got news of anything going down or out of the ordinary. According to Rob, he’d know if I was on my way to full vampire or not, and he’d have heard if my current condition was unique or if it had happened before. And if he didn’t know, no one did.

Nehemiah’s trench coat billowed in the wind. "So where’s this guy?”

"He should be over yonder hill."

"Yonder?" Nehemiah jeered.

We crested the hill and sure enough, I could see the dark form of a tall figure standing on top of the grassy hillside. Also the tingling sensation in my Keening grew stronger. I looked to and fro but we were in the open and I didn't catch any signs of monsters. I looked skyward in case there was something flying overhead and there was.

It was a kite. And the string was attached and running down to the massive hands of the figure up ahead.

"Is he really flying a kite at night?" I asked.

"Yeah, that's Iarfhlaith."

As we approached the guy didn't seem to hear us. He hummed a tune with a deep booming voice. How he could fly a kite at night was beyond me.

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