Mortal Skies Omnibus by Rebecca Fernfield

Author:Rebecca Fernfield
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Redbegga
Published: 2019-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

They’d fallen asleep, wrapped together, listening to the shrieks, screams, and crashing that seemed intimately woven with the dying sirens. As night became the darkest of morning, the noise of death quieted and, as Josh wakes, thin sun filtering to cast a grey light in Tina’s bedroom, only one siren makes an occasional groan.

Tina is turned to the wall, Josh’s arm still hooked beneath her neck as she sleeps. Careful not to wake her, he retrieves his arm, and resists the urge to lean down and kiss her cheek. A waft of sour sweat rises, and he sniffs the cloth of his t-shirt, relieved she’s still asleep. Yes! It’s him. Taking light steps to the bathroom, he quickly washes, searches the cabinets and sprays deodorant at his armpits, followed by a light spray over his clothes. Refreshed, teeth cleaned with a toothpaste covered finger, he walks through to the living room and peers down to the street. A single light flashes on the engine he’d driven up to the doors. He scans the street. No movement, no hordes of monsters dragging their kill, none leaving to hunt their prey.

“Are they out there?”

Tina stands in the doorway, hair a halo of fine strands, long pony-tail hanging over her shoulder. She looks all of about twelve in this light, not the fifteen-year old he hangs out with at school. She joins him at the window.

“They’re gone!”

“I’m not sure. I haven’t seen any.”

“And it’s quiet. Listen.”

She’s right, there are no unholy screams to curdle your belly, no shrieks that make the hairs of your scalp creep.

“Maybe they’re asleep?” He pulls out his mobile. “Four thirty-four. I didn’t realise it was light at this time!”

“It’s summer.”

He turns back to the scene below, then looks out across the city. To the right, near the precinct he’d escaped from yesterday, a plume of smoke rises. Beyond that, two more plumes. “There’ve been fires! My dad ... I left him yesterday with Katy and Justin at the precinct.”

A hand rests on his shoulder. “We’ll find them.”

“I’ve said we’ll meet at my mum’s.” A siren groans. “We should leave whilst it’s quiet.”

Tina steps back. “But ... they’re still out there.”

“There’s no one down there. We can get out. We’ll find a car – drive to my mum’s. We’ll be safe there. And my Dad ... he’s expecting me.”

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