Lies and Legends by Logan Keys

Author:Logan Keys [Keys, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

Dallas

This side of the city is littered with trash and smoke from the fires make everything hazy. Masculinity ekes out of every corner. That’s just cause their numbers are far larger. But the chaos is like a pheromone attracting more chaos.

My inner she-demon catches a scent. She goes on alert. Something about the human confusion is heady and makes her come alive. The brewing tension among the men makes her long for a brawl of her own.

She’s been a punching bag for so long that now, even if it’s not right, she’s seeking revenge in the land of testosterone.

Shade notices, but doesn’t say anything. Even when my walk changes, becomes silkier. My hands curve into claws and my teeth elongate. I know if I look in a mirror I’ll see red eyes glowing in the darkness. The demon in its form.

Most nights I come to life, trying to find my humanity, but it’s moments like this that my undead side is more alive than my human side. It’s more what I seek and accept. I am aware that I am no longer passive-aggressive Dallas, but the aggressive-aggressive monster within.

If you survive me like this, you’ll wish you were dead.

Shade is a shadow, but is he a demon? I think that he’s not.

I’m alone in that with my hunger. And suddenly, I am very hungry.

Men come out of the woodwork. These are just the human ones. You can tell apart the military grunts from the specials. They sit by each side of the alleyway, talking, playing cards in the dim light, but while some gaze at me with knowing eyes, the others shift uncomfortably.

They see us and stiffen, a few let themselves stare at my assets, while others see me for what I am, death in the form of a girl. The latter’s eyes widen.

They still call the other side La La Land. Funny little name. But this side they’ve been calling: Fallout

Two names. Two sides.

Both lost causes without the other.

A perfect metaphor for the crisis the world is in.

As we get closer, things change. More soldiers with strange looks appear. Some are bigger than a man should be and there are eyes that shine in the darkness. Others move incredibly fast, I can’t see them change position. Not as fast as Shade though. One vibrates in his boots, ready to take flight or some such ability.

I keep my guard up. You never know what they’ve been gifted with.

A blind man shows me things in a glimpse. Impressions. I have to shake him off me. He’s slithering in and out of my mind like oil across glass. Once I have him gone, another shimmers in front of me, like he’s made of metal, but then he begins melting.

“Mercury,” Shades supplies, as the guy drips pieces of himself wherever he walks.

It’s kind of nice to not be looked at like before. These see me as a challenge, but some smile the smile and nod of welcome. We are the same. A brother and sisterhood of freaks.

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