Light of the Stygian Orb by Krista Walsh

Author:Krista Walsh [Walsh, Krista]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Urban, Contemporary, Thrillers, Supernatural
Google: 5xmDDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 36462217
Publisher: Raven's Quill Press
Published: 2017-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

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They arrived at the hospital without incident, but then Daphne got lost in the parking lot and had to call her contact to figure out which door they were supposed to meet at.

“Definitely pissed off,” she said as she hung up. “I suggest we keep the conversation with her to a minimum. And let me do the talking. I’m afraid if you say anything, she’ll come at me with a hypodermic.”

Daphne pulled up to the door, and Zach peered around her to check out the woman standing in the open doorway. She appeared to be in her mid-thirties, with tight brown curls pulled back into a ponytail. A pair of glasses were perched on top of her head. She was dressed in purple scrubs, and the toe of one of her white nurse’s shoes tapped against the ground in an impatient rhythm.

Zach had no issue leaving her to be Daphne’s problem.

The sorceress got out of the car to speak with the woman while Zach went around the other side and popped the trunk. The Colcex demon had already begun to rot, its beet-red skin shriveling up and pulling away from the boils and pustules to send more noxious fluids dribbling toward the blanket.

He heaved the corpse over his shoulder and approached the doorway.

“Oh, sweet heavens,” the woman gasped, pressing her hand to her chest. “Daphne Heartstone, what have you dragged me into now?”

“Nothing,” Daphne said. “We’re going to be in and out, and you don’t need to remember a thing. You don’t even need to be here. Denise, Zach. Zach, Denise.”

He nodded his head in greeting, but the woman stared up at him in wide-eyed wonder. Zach wished he’d thought to position himself out of the light to hide the scars on his face. They tended to draw the eye even more than his wide frame.

Denise gave herself a shake, then fanned her face as she puffed out a breath. “If you’re going to do this, please make it quick. The ER is a madhouse tonight, and I can’t be off the floor babysitting you two for long.”

“In and out,” Daphne assured her again.

Denise jerked her head toward the parking lot. “The incinerator’s out here. These things cause no small amount of environmental damage, so we try to limit what we burn. I’m sorry it’s out in the open, but at this time of night, no one comes back here.”

She led them to a system that reminded Zach unnervingly of the defunct boiler near his living space. If destroying these demons had been as easy as finding a way to get that hunk of machinery working, it would have been better than dragging them across town. But the incinerator would work faster and leave fewer traces behind.

“There’s not a lot of space in here,” Denise warned.

“I’ll make them fit,” Zach said.

She eyed him up and down and crossed her arms. “I don’t doubt it.”

Zach stuffed the already broken Colcex demon into the back of the empty incinerator, then returned to the trunk and came back with the Kozkor demon over his arm and the Lingor demon over his shoulder.

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