Legion (Southern Watch Book 5) by Robert J. Crane

Author:Robert J. Crane [Crane, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Revelen Press
Published: 2016-05-03T06:00:00+00:00

Amanda Guthrie had been waiting for this. She was pacing the beige-yellow hotel hallway again, smooth, thin carpet underneath her feet, staring at the pattern of blue broken by gawdawful ugly tan starbursts woven into it at intervals of every few inches. She’d walked it a hundred times before she’d finally figured out what those little tan monstrosities were, and now that she’d walked it a hundred more she was starting to feel like the starbursts were morphing into something else. The OOC had to be coming back soon, didn’t he? He couldn’t wander about town all day, could he?

Of course he could.

She’d smiled tightly at the two other guests she’d encountered in her walk, but they’d kept their heads down and ignored her. One of them was a demon, she’d caught that much, the other a human who was likely in town for a funeral, which was the only business booming in Midian at present. She had a suspicion that the wiser among them were starting to leave, which was a smart move. Rats fled sinking ships for a reason, after all, and it wasn’t because the thought of a swim appealed to them.

She was hanging out in the room with the icemaker and the vending machines again, just lurking, listening for the elevator. The quiet hum of the icemaker was a pleasant enough sound, like fluorescent lights turned up to twelve. It alternated on and off every little while, and the sound of ice being dumped, crackling, into the machine was a pleasant distraction every once in a while from her thoughts. She thought about the new ice hitting the old ice, mixing, becoming a heterogeneous mass of water turned solid. She thought about water a lot; it was something she pondered when she had spare time. Which she’d had a lot of recently.

The ice crashed down into the machine and just beneath that, she heard the faint ring of the elevator. It caused her to stiffen in place, all senses crashing to alertness, the yellow-beige walls of the hotel snapping back into stark clarity and the starburst patterns in the carpeting coming back into clear focus. She didn’t have irises or lenses in her eyes to adjust, but still somehow she could lose focus. That was cause for more pondering, actually.

She eased up to the door, listening carefully. The gears and the cables in the elevator shaft were squeaking as the box came to a halt, and now she could hear the doors sliding open. She paused at the door, her dark hand a hard contrast against the white trim of the frame, and if she’d had breath, she would have waited with it bated.

This was the time.

She heard footsteps against the hard carpet, thumping along, someone in a great damned big hurry. The movement was not subtle; it was the steps of someone in a rush, wanting to get down the hall, eager to retreat from the world, to turtle inside their room, maybe even hide in the bed and pull up the covers.

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