Night and Chaos: An Ashwood Urban Fantasy Novel (Half-Lich Book 3) by Lee Dignam & Katerina Martinez

Author:Lee Dignam & Katerina Martinez [Dignam, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Supernal Publishing
Published: 2016-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Bring the Chaos

“The magistrate is going to go ballistic when they see this,” Jim said.

Alice scrolled down beyond the video of Silver leaping off a building with his sword in his hand. They were in Isaac’s house, huddled around a laptop on Isaac’s dining room table. Silver had been the one to suggest searching the internet for videos, and they had found one. It already had six thousand hits, a vast majority of thumbs up, and only a few thumbs down.

The camcorder that had been used to take the video hadn’t captured the long tail of the shadow creature Silver had used to quickly get from the roof of the building he was on to the ground. The video itself was blurry, too, and shaky, and the wind hitting the microphone made it difficult to hear anything besides a constant crackle. But to those who were there, to those who watched it happen, it was real alright.

“I don’t know about that,” Cameron said, “Look at all the comments. Cool effects, bro… fake… not as good as other fan films… the girl with the sword is pretty hot.”

“What the fuck?” Silver asked, pushing in to read the comments.

“Okay, that last one was a lie. Point is, no one believes what took place actually happened. I think we’re protected.”

“Really?” Jim asked, “Because this video already has a few thousand views. If it goes viral…”

“Then we’ll deal with it,” Isaac said. “We saved those people from being seriously injured or killed. We did a good thing.”

Alice shut the laptop down and decided to go talk to Cora, who was standing by the fridge. The mages were busy having a conversation about the after effects of what had happened and the potential impact on humans, but Cora wasn’t a mage, so she had little input. Alice walked over to the fridge, grabbed a couple of sodas, and handed one to her.

“Thanks,” Alice said, “For staying with the guy at the bar.”

Cora nodded. “I saw him get packed into the ambulance and got the hell out of there,” she said. “I figured you could use a hand.”

“I appreciate it. You didn’t see where the two things on the roof went, did you?”

“No. I saw them up there, but by the time I reached the place, they were gone. Do you have any idea what they were?”

“Not really. When I was hunting, my targets were usually noisy ghosts—nothing like this. I can’t believe the thing had a soul; wasn’t expecting that.”

“How do you feel?” Cora asked. “After having eaten the soul, I mean.”

“I feel good. Strong. It was a pure soul.”

“Has it talked to you yet?”

“I think it did at the beginning, but it was loud on that rooftop. I couldn’t hear myself think, let alone someone else’s soul. I’ll probably hear it tonight while I’m sleeping.”

“I’d be curious to know what it says.”

“Me too. Maybe it can tell me how the fuck it wound up serving as fuel for that minotaur thing.”

“I think I can help with that,” Jim put in.

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