Riding Rifts (Vampire's Elixir Series Book 2) by Pippa Amberwine

Author:Pippa Amberwine [Amberwine, Pippa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: urban fantasy
Publisher: Jayne Faith
Published: 2019-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Katie

A barn in the middle of nowhere

Idaho, Earth

“I DON’T KNOW,” Jevyn said. “I don’t hear anything.”

I studied his face, a picture of confusion right then. He was lying. I thought he was being truthful about wanting to come back. No, I knew he was telling the truth about that. I thought he was lying about nothing being able to stop him. I wasn’t completely in the know with all the political machinations that went on in Dracos, but I had to face the reality that circumstances could easily turn to mean that he might not be able to come back. The fact that he wanted to was enough for a little while, though. And it made me feel better that he was trying to spare my feelings.

“Come on.” I said. “Let’s go take a look.” It was a strange thing. It wasn’t much of noise, but it was big. I could tell. Like a huge disturbance in the atmosphere with a deep resonant rumbling.

I’d never experienced an earthquake, but I guessed it would be like that. I could feel the vibrations underfoot.

We took a few steps out into the yard and stopped. The sound was louder outside, but it seemed to be coming from all around as the noise echoed off the distant surrounding hills and mountains.

“What is that?” Jevyn asked, turning in circles, as if trying to get a fix on where the noise was coming from.

“Over there.” I pointed, finally figuring out the direction from where it was emanating.

Jevyn spun back around to where I was pointing. In the distance, a small dark dot appeared through the heat-haze-filled sky and then another. Suddenly, there were twenty, maybe thirty, and they were heading straight toward us.

We backed up slowly into the doorway of the barn and craned our heads around the side. Slowly, as the pounding sound got louder, the black dots got bigger and bigger, gradually becoming clearer in the dusty sky. I counted them. Twenty-four large helicopters. Not all the same. Some had vicious-looking missiles loaded beneath them. We pulled back farther into the barn as they flew overhead, feeling the drumbeat of the rotor blades pushing the air beneath them down to the ground and blowing up dust and debris as they passed over, almost like a mini-tornado passing over with the machines.

The group was about halfway across us when the lead helicopter set off a missile. The sizzle of it reached us a few milliseconds later. I watched the missiles exhaust trail as it sped away and then dipped down toward the ground, followed a second later by a flash of light and a second after that by the distant report of an explosion.

I had a terrible feeling about who or what might have been the target.

As the helicopters finally passed fully overhead, we both crept out to watch them slowly recede into the distance.

“SCAR,” I said.

“Heading toward Nindock’s town by the look of it.”

“We have to go see what was hit. We need to go help those people if we can,” I said.

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