Lords of Trillium by Hilary Wagner

Author:Hilary Wagner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2014-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

Billycan woke with a start, drenched in sweat. He grabbed his head. “No,” he muttered, “please. Make it stop!”

He had been dreaming, an endless nightmare of blood and death he couldn’t pull himself out of. Visions of needles and cages filled with dead rats. Rats screaming in agony. Rats screaming his name, begging for mercy.

He pulled himself off the long cot he’d been given to sleep on, hidden away in a vacant quarters where the still fearful citizens wouldn’t come across him. He dragged himself to a shard of mirror, leaning against the wall, all the while pulling at his ears, hoping it might send the horrible thoughts out of his head. Slowly he raised his head and looked at himself. He dropped to his knees. His eyes were a brilliant, torrid orange—a hue he’d not seen in a very long time.

Turning away from the mirror, he noticed his door was ajar. Cautiously he stepped into the dim corridor. Deep claw marks traveled from his door all the way down the corridor. The word “KILL” was scrawled above them in crooked capital letters. He followed the claw marks to a set of stairs that led up to Nightshade Passage. Bits of paper covered the stairwell, as though someone had furiously shredded it.

Billycan picked up a scrap of paper and studied it. It was a page from one of the scientists’ diaries. He picked up another piece, trying to read the words. All he could make out were the words “rats,” “intellect,” and “human-like.”

He froze. He smelled a rat at the top of the stairs. He could hear its shaky breaths. “Who’s there?” he called out.

No one answered. He heard only footsteps running away.

He looked down at his claws. They were covered in earth, and several were bleeding. He stretched out his digits and fitted them into the claw marks on the dirt wall—a perfect match.

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