My Life From Hell by Tellulah Darling
Author:Tellulah Darling [Darling, Tellulah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ScreamQueen
Publisher: Te Da Media
Published: 2014-02-11T06:00:00+00:00
Fourteen
One of the many fun facts now at my disposal with the return of Persephone’s memories was that while in the Underworld, she and Demeter had always met in Tartarus. Not exactly the field trip I wanted to take.
Ever.
I stifled a half-panicked breath. Calm …
I had to meet with Demeter. This was my chance to make sure she didn’t end up wanting to murder Persephone. Therefore, I would be the absolute delight that she expected. “Lead on,” I told the gecko.
He crawled out of the room, and I obediently followed.
The gecko hugged the low edge of the wall, leading me through the palace via its twisty back hallways. He had an unerring sense of timing, turning into corridors just as voices faded off ahead of us and feet padded away.
He moved fast for a little guy too, never stopping to see if I was keeping up. Which I was, but barely. When we stepped outside, I was only dimly aware of the heat beating down on my head, and the ticklish twitching in my nose from the acrid tang of the dry grass.
Between the nerves and the total focus on not losing my tiny guide, I didn’t realize we’d reached Tartarus until the overpowering smell of sulphur had me gagging. I flung an arm up to cover my nose and mouth, but the scent was insidious. It snaked its putrid way inside me.
My lizard leader came to a stop. Before us was a bronze fence that stretched up and away as far as the eye could see.
I glanced down at the gecko. “Couldn’t you bring her out here?”
He waggled his head at me.
Uncertain, I placed one hand against the fence’s ridged surface, and practically buckled as the cries of the damned knocked the breath from me.
Tearing my hand off that gate was like trying to detach myself from the strongest magnet ever. Every molecule of me felt stuck, plastered to it in despair for all eternity. It magnified every self-criticism, every negative thought and fear into infinity.
Instrument of our destruction. Instrument of our destruction.
The mocking laughter from my vision filled my ears.
I slid down the fence, the skin on my legs pricking sharply as I hit a tangle of thorns. The pricking crept down my ankle, getting more frequent. Dully, I glanced down to find the gecko nipping at me.
I could almost hear him chittering at me to get up.
It was crazy hard but I managed to stagger to my feet. The gecko kept up his chatter, nipping at me every few feet to make sure I didn’t stop.
My limbs felt heavy, my gait sluggish. I was doing a pretty excellent zombie shuffle.
The gecko prodded me along for a bit, finally stopping at a gap in the fence. No, a small door that stood ajar. He ran through it.
I don’t know how Persephone had managed to keep coming here, because I couldn’t make myself take that first step into Tartarus. I had to take my hands, wrap them around my leg, lift it up, and set my foot down a step ahead.
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