Raven's Fall (World on Fire Book 2) by Lincoln Cole

Author:Lincoln Cole [Cole, Lincoln]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Lincoln Cole Publishing
Published: 2016-09-20T06:00:00+00:00

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“What do you mean?” Abigail asked. “What started?”

“We need to talk to Frieda.” Mitchell took the binder of papers from Abigail and flipped through it. He spoke quickly, nearly frantic, “We knew that once Arthur went this would happen, but it wasn’t supposed to happen this fast.”

“What are you talking about?” Abigail’s blood ran cold. “What’s happening to me?”

Mitchell ignored her question. “We need to get to Frieda. She’ll know what to do.”

“Tell me what the hell is going on!”

“Where is she? Do you know where Frieda’s at? Oh God, I don’t know what to do. We need to find her.”

Abigail slid the gun out again but held it at her side rather than aiming it at him. He froze, mouth hanging open.

“Are you calm now?”

He stared at the gun, and then gulped. “Yeah, I’m good.”

“Tell me what’s going on.”

“I can’t,” he said softly. “Frieda forbade me from telling you. We need to get to her so that she can explain it.”

“Frieda’s not here, and we can’t get to her right now. You’re going to tell me everything you know. Got it?”

Mitchell stayed quiet for a minute, chewing the idea over in his mind. His eyes looked bloodshot, and he seemed to have a hard time focusing.

“Don’t make me shoot you.”

“All right,” he said, finally. “All right … okay. … But would you put the gun down? Please?”

Abigail did, sliding it away once more. Mitchell let out an overly dramatic sigh, and then collapsed back into his beanbag chair. He gestured for Abigail to sit on a sofa opposite him, but she didn’t budge. Instead, she stood in the doorway and kept her face impassive.

“Start talking.”

He rubbed his face. “Where to begin? When you were about ten, Arthur started to notice it happening and—”

“What happening?”

Mitchell frowned. “You were changing.”

A chill ran down Abigail’s spine. “What do you mean?”

“I mean you were changing,” Mitchell said. “I can’t explain it any better.”

“I was turning into something else?”

“Not exactly,” he said. “But sort of … evolving might be a better word. I don’t know much about what happened, just what Arthur told me, but it scared him to death. He said he was terrified of you.”

“I don’t remember …”

The thing was, she did remember some things. Abigail remembered feeling angry with Arthur, and she remembered inflicting pain; on pets, mostly, but occasionally other children as well.

She enjoyed it but had never understood why. It remained a part of herself that she didn’t like to think about. After a while, she’d grown out of it and assumed it had just been a phase she had gone through.

“You were quick to anger,” Mitchell said, speaking quietly. “He did tell me that.”

“Arthur always told me to control my emotions,” Abigail said in a voice lost in recall. “He told me that good soldiers never give in to their anger.”

“It’s true,” Mitchell said. “But that wasn’t the case for you. No, for you, it was something else. This amazing healing was there, too. You would cut yourself playing, and the wounds would close in front of Arthur’s eyes.

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