Origin by J.T. Brannan

Author:J.T. Brannan [Brannan, J.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2012-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

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BY NIGHTFALL, THE plan had been drawn up and rehearsed, and everyone was ready.

Lynn looked at Adams, her eyes displaying all sorts of emotions – fear, concern, belief, love – and Adams willed her to trust him. He would be going in by himself; he knew it would be safer that way. The truth was, he was the best there was at this sort of thing. It had been true before he had ever joined the Shadow Wolves, and it was true again now, his powers fully returned to him at last.

There was no need for words, just the exchanged looks of two people who had been through so much together, and realized that they still wanted to go through more. A tear rolled down Lynn’s cheek, and then Adams turned on his heel and was gone, through the treeline and into the thick woods of Mason Neck Park.

The fence to Jacobs’ property was an eight-foot stone wall topped by blades and razor wire, with CCTV cameras placed along its length every twenty feet. As Adams looked at it, he considered that perhaps the cliffs wouldn’t have been such a bad choice.

It was a cloudy night, and at first the wood had been pitch black. Adams could have used night-vision goggles – Ayita could certainly have found some for him – but he had never liked them, as they cut off peripheral vision and made you vulnerable from the flanks. He preferred to rely on the abilities that nature had given him, and had spent the first half-hour in the woods squatting on the cold ground, letting his eyes adjust to the dark.

The simple fact was that there was really no such thing as pitch black, that was just how things appeared before you let the eyes adjust. Even with clouds covering any available natural light source such as the moon and the stars, manmade sources of light were ever present, especially so close to a major city like Washington DC. Even though he was in a state park, surrounded by huge trees in an area many people would feel was in the middle of nowhere, the truth was that the nation’s capital was only twenty miles away, and Mason Creek itself was separated from several major towns by only a relatively small body of water. The result was that, if you let the eyes adjust for long enough, there was enough light to see clearly with no technological apparatus whatsoever. You just had to be patient, a quality Adams had in abundance.

He also knew how to see things in the dark, looking at just the right angle to whatever object he needed to see, never directly at it, to maximize the effect of the available light on his retina. It was one of the skills he had learnt long ago on the plains of the Badlands.

The coating he had applied to his entire body was another. Some of the night creatures out in the Badlands, including the deadly prairie

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