Reviled (Frankenstein Book 2) by Dean C. Moore

Author:Dean C. Moore [Moore, Dean C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mark Freeman Enterprises
Published: 2017-12-17T22:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

Artemis tracked the invisible snakes with the two-foot girths and the twenty-foot lengths hunting the wizard that was on the run for his life. The snakes’ flicking tongues seemed to be attuned to this specific wizard. They ignored all other forms of prey. Were it not for Artemis’s huntress’s eyes, she would have been just as blind to them; but the snakes phosphoresced for her against the darkness of night, like soap bubbles in a tub. Still, it wasn’t just their supernatural size and invisibility that was a concern. They were genetic hybrids—meaning these things were created by spirit science—a weird hybrid of fringe science and magic that, customarily, only the Dr. Frankensteins of Shelley’s London messed with. And it was doubtful they’d created this; even the more deranged ones would have had little use for them.

Britomartis, her fellow huntress, tracking alongside her, was getting tired jumping rooftops—her huntress’s hardened body the only thing keeping her from getting shin splints on landing and providing the strength in the legs to make the otherwise impossible leaps from building to building to keep up with those snakes. That didn’t stop the curses from escaping her lips, however.

The wizard couldn’t keep this pace up for long, even if they could. “You do appreciate the irony,” Britomartis said. “That’s allegedly the most powerful wizard of this district. We don’t usually get called in to rescue his kind; put one down, maybe.”

Artemis grunted. Her friend was the deep thinker of the group, the fretter, the chatterer. Artemis supposed she’d chosen her because there just wasn’t enough going on in her own mind most nights to push out the loneliness. Their chosen profession meant few wanted their company, and few men felt safe around them, even if all they sought were carnal pleasures.

Artemis loosed an arrow, which flew straight to the snake’s head just as it was bringing its fangs—its mouth spread wide—down on Augustus. The arrow caught the snake in the brain and put a quick end to it. Once dead, it lost its invisibility. Perhaps because, that way, even dead it could still put the fear of God into people.

Britomartis put an end to the snake Augustus was running headlong into—the reptile’s mouth spread wide—as if Augustus was only too keen to see if that was a tunnel of love rather than a digestive tract.

The wizard stopped dead in his tracks from the shock of his mistake, losing more time against the rest of the encroaching snakes. He had no choice now but to turn around and face the music.

He swirled about on himself and tried his magic. He materialized a giant spider of pure energy, etched in an orange-gold. The hairs of the arachnid alone, bristling on what looked to be the prehistoric ancestor of a tarantula, were enough to give pause.

The spider quickly spun an energy web. The first two snakes bolted straight through it, the net slicing them to shreds.

The other snakes pulled up short. The spider didn’t wait for them to bypass the web.

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