Malice in Wonderland by H. P. Mallory

Author:H. P. Mallory [Mallory, H. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B00A8PD37E
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

Not surprisingly, the drive to my new digs was quiet and completely uncomfortable. I mean, I’d just attempted that whole escape act after hearing Knight tell me he loved me, so things weren't exactly cheery in the Dulcie-Knight camp. To defend my actions, though, I never wanted to get into the conversation in the first place. There was still just too much up in the air regarding The Resistance and my father. And let us also not forget that in the course of the last six hours or so, I'd been the unfortunate victim of the Denali detonation in which I came way too close to turning into a fairy shish-kebab, only to learn that the killer was one of our own. So as far as my guilt was concerned, if the truth be told, I wasn't really feeling any mainly because there wasn't any more space in my already overwhelmed head.

Luckily for me though, Knight didn't say another word. He just sat behind the steering wheel and looked ... glum. Yes, something within me told me I should have said something, or at least made small talk. But at this point, I figured small talk would be more of a slap in the face than silence, so I chose silence. Besides, I had a splitting headache and wasn't in a talking mood anyway.

Instead, we both quietly listened to the navigation in the Suburban as it barked out, "take a right turn here" and "take a left just ahead." How it even knew where we were was a shocker in and of itself, considering we were still in the middle of BFE. Furthermore, the locations of these Resistance compounds were on a need-to-know basis only and I couldn't imagine Garmin or Tom Tom needed to know. As soon as the thought crossed my mind, though, I realized that the navigation unit was no doubt “charmed” as were most things supplied by The Resistance.

We'd left the library about an hour earlier and were now driving down an unmarked highway that seemed to stretch into oblivion. As we crested the only hill yet, I noticed the highway T-boned into a dead end. We had to go right or left. The nav unit ordered us to make a left turn, so we did. Once we took the left, the entire car wobbled like a tightrope walker in a high wind on a faulty wire. Seconds later, we were no longer on the lone highway that stretched for miles with nothing but the early morning sun to greet us. Instead, we were suddenly plunged into the midst of a dark forest, complete with traces of moonlight that lit up the interior of the car through the heavy branches. It took me a second or two to realize what just happened, but before I could speak, Knight did.

"That must have been a portal," he said simply, as if it were no surprise at all and the news was so humdrum that it didn’t even require commenting.

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