Red Rider Revolution by Randall Allen Dunn

Author:Randall Allen Dunn [Dunn, Randall Allen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Character Entertainment
Published: 2017-12-27T07:00:00+00:00

29.

We fell hard on the woodshed’s dusty floor. Pierre’s flying tackle knocked the wind from my lungs as I struggled to push his leering grin off me. He pinned me with his full weight, snapping his teeth at my face like he had fangs. I freed one knee and jammed it into his ribs. He grunted as I planted my foot for leverage and pushed him off, rolling on top of him and clambering to my feet.

He groaned, rising on one knee as he clutched his ribs. “You’re stronger than you look, Helena,” he said in the Prime’s low voice. “But so am I.”

“Pierre, listen to me. The Lycanthru are controlling you. You’ve got to fight it.”

He laughed. “You can think you can resist the Prime, Helena?”

He leaped in front of me so suddenly that I gasped. Then he punched my jaw, sending me spinning backward. Stars danced in my vision as I fell against the stacked wood.

He seized the back of my neck.

“Let’s test how strong you are,” he said. His other hand locked onto my wrist and twisted my arm behind my back. I grunted, grinding my teeth.

Then he rammed my head and shoulders into the woodpile.

Stars swirled before me again as I fought the nausea churning in my gut. He hammered me into the wood a second and third time, and I expected to vomit and pass out.

As he prepared to ram me again, I kicked against the wall, pushing him sideways to the floor. He toppled to the ground and I rolled away from him, jumping to my feet. He turned to look up at me, looking confused and hurt. “Red?”

I kicked his face hard, knocking him aside. He cried out in pain, but not the guttural moan of the Prime.

“Pierre?”

He groaned with the sound of pain and outrage. “What on earth are you doing? Why did you kick me?”

“Pierre, you – you weren’t yourself.”

“So you’re kicking me now?”

“You were – You attacked me. You were trying to kill me.”

He looked up at me, massaging his bruised jaw, like he was staring at a stranger. A stranger who had lost her mind. “Why would I try to kill you?”

“You were being controlled. By the Lycanthru. They did it to me a few months ago. They cast some sort of spell to invade my mind and attack me from far off. They’re doing the same thing to you now, except they’re controlling your actions.”

He blinked. “Controlling my actions?”

“You need to see Father Vestille. Let’s go back to the house. He can help you, the same way he freed me of their control.” I marched toward the door. “Meanwhile, I need to return to DeSarte.”

Pierre’s jaw dropped. “You’re going back?”

“I can’t let them frighten me off. They still have Claudette, and maybe the Serrones.”

“Just be careful, all right?” He put his hand on my shoulder.

I pulled away.

“Red? What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. Come on. We need to see Father Vestille.”

“Why are you pulling away from me?”

“– You said some things.”

He furrowed his brows.

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