Myrikal by Holli Anderson

Author:Holli Anderson [Anderson, Holli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732467460
Publisher: Immortal Works
Published: 2019-02-11T22:00:00+00:00

Alyssa’s little house was a bit smaller than Branch’s and the furniture wasn’t nearly as nice. She had obviously scavenged it from within the city too, but hadn’t done anything to improve it above cleaning it off a little. Myri took her up on her offer to stay there, worried that staying with Branch would be awkward. Myri had trouble sleeping, but it didn’t have anything to do with the furniture. She was used to sleeping on old, dusty, torn couches.

Waking nightmares plagued her for the first time in her life. She couldn’t remember anything concrete in the dreams, just vague images. Cracks in the earth, oozing coils of green gel-like substance, like something crawling from within the depths of the chasm. Sometime, hours before dawn, Myrikal gave up on sleeping. She got up and dressed in the new jeans and shirt Alyssa and Branch had helped her procure after the strange meeting with Cascus. She put them on over her unitard since she didn’t know how long she’d be staying with Alyssa and didn’t want to presume she could just store her stuff there.

Myri hadn’t said anything to Branch about the problems she’d had with her ability to see Cascus clearly or the odor he obviously didn’t smell. She needed time to think about what it could mean. She wanted to see if it recurred. Maybe it was just a one-time aberration. Maybe it had to do with the huge jolt of electricity she’d stolen from the sky earlier in the day. Maybe that’s what had caused the strange dreams as she struggled to sleep.

Shaking the thoughts from her head, she quietly opened the door and slipped outside. She needed some fresh air before the meeting, still hours away. She wandered around the inside perimeter of the compound, noting a gated exit/entrance on each side of the rectangular structure. Two guards were posted at each gate, none of them seemed too concerned that she was wandering around in the darkness of pre-dawn.

She stopped in front of the two guards stationed at the entrance she’d come through the day before. A male and a female stood watch, crossbows strung across their shoulders.

“Hi. I’m Myri. Can I ask you something?”

“Sure.” The male guard smiled.

“What, exactly, are you guarding against?”

“Intruders,” he said. “When we first started to get things set up in here, we had a lot of outsiders trying to steal from us.”

“So…” Myri looked at the female, “you aren’t here to keep people inside. You’re here to keep people out?”

The guard nodded. “Yes. That’s right. The people that live here are welcome to come and go as we please.”

“And visitors are welcome, as long as they’re cleared through the proper channels first,” added the man.

Good to know they weren’t trying to keep people in. Not that that would be an issue for Myrikal. She could get outside the walls without any problem. “Well, if an older man named Russ tries to enter, don’t let him. You guys have a good night.

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