London Under Midnight by Simon Clark

Author:Simon Clark [Clark, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780727891808
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2007-06-07T19:06:16+00:00

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April and Carter walked along the path by the canal. The cloud began to break; a thousand stars shone through. The pair were filled with such happiness that everything appeared wonderful. They pointed out the constellation of Orion reflected in the canal water. An airliner glided overhead, its navigation lights burned brilliantly, causing them to shield their sensitive eyes.

'Imagine all those people on that plane.' Carter whooped. 'They'll all be asleep like this.' He pantomimed a sleeping man with his head to one side. 'Just imagine all those bare necks with those big, big pulses going da-dum, da-dum, da-dum.'

She laughed as she put her arm around him. They could have been a pair of lovers returning home after a party that left them exhilarated as much as intoxicated. At that moment they were so energized it seemed as if they were flying rather than walking. Nothing required effort. April laughed as she suddenly twirled round, her arms held out by her side.

Carter leapt on to a wall and crouched there as he made a play of balancing. 'Watch me, momma. I'm gonna surf these bricks all the way to Rio. There the people are so juicy it'll be like eating peaches.' The man was a relentless bundle of energy. He pounded his chest as if he was Tarzan. 'Peaches of the gods!'

April jumped up and grabbed his hands. 'Carter! We've found it, haven't we?'

'We've found happiness.'

'But we've discovered something amazing. This is a miracle.'

'Come fly with me!'

They jumped off the wall hand-in-hand. As they walked with that bouncing stride April rushed the words through her lips with that same energy. 'You know why so-called civilized people hate cannibalism?'

'Tell me, beautiful one.' He beamed those gold-tipped teeth at her.

'It's because it gives you power. When you drink someone's blood or eat their flesh it makes you so strong you feel as if you could lift a building into the air.'

'That's cool. I'm gonna go down to Westminster and throw Big Ben over the moon.'

She laughed as she experienced such rapture she thought she would burst. 'But now we've discovered the truth. We're like Edison, Madam Curie and Oppenheimer rolled into one. Listen, Carter. We'll make the world a better place. Just picture it. If everyone felt like this there'd be no wars. Everybody will be happy. Wait…' She grabbed him by the arm as he tight-roped a narrow band of stone at the canal edge. 'Don't you feel it?'

'I feel everything's good.'

'But don't you feel as if you can never die? That you'll live forever?'

'Hmm.' He rubbed his stomach while laughing out loud. 'I feel it.'

'This is the happiest day of my life,' she declared. 'You and me, Carter, we've discovered eternal happiness and immortality.'

'That, my sweetheart, is what I call an achievement.'

April found herself skipping along the night-time path. The city lights were nothing less than a celebratory firework display, and above them the stars shone with their own happy glow.

'We can't keep this to ourselves, you know?' She linked arms with him.

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