Right of Retribution by William D. Arand

Author:William D. Arand [Arand, William D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William D. Arand
Published: 2020-03-06T22:00:00+00:00

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“Shouldn’t we be leaving?” Tammy asked from the island in the kitchen. “You already found my sister.”

“Yeah… I just need to respond to a few things,” Warner muttered, staring at his phone. Thankfully it wasn’t even past nine in the morning yet, so it meant he still had a semi-reasonable excuse for having not yet replied to Aelia.

He had to meet up with her today to get the new gear which he’d already paid for.

And somehow smooth everything over with her at the same time. Given what future actions Daria had told him she expected from Aelia, this was all a given, and he just needed to fix things.

Looking over the last message she’d sent, there was nothing new there.

“Did I ruin things? Can we start over where we were just being a little flirty about you being my meal?” Aelia had written.

Reading through all of the messages before that, Warner had the strange feeling that maybe Aelia wasn’t normal. That maybe she was more like some of the strange creatures he’d encountered as of late. That maybe she dealt with the “Paranormal Police” as Daria had called them.

Slowly, he tapped in a message to Aelia.

“Sorry. I had a run in with a PID agent and ended up forgetting all about my phone. I was working on something when they ran across me,” he wrote. “Also, I had a run in with a group of… people… that we should talk about. They asked me some pointed questions about you.

“As to taking things from the start, sure. I can do that. You sure you don’t want me to bring anything over for dinner? Food? Drinks? Nothing?

“As an apology for not responding sooner, could I come over around noon and have you for lunch?”

With how forward Aelia had been in her messages, he figured he needed to return some of the attention back to reassure her.

Not to mention that if he could see her earlier in the day, then he could get his gear, start tracking down Tammy’s sister, and go from there.

Slipping his phone into his pocket, Warner picked up Tammy’s skull and held it up to look into it.

“Alright. Let’s head out, shall we?” Warner asked.

“About time. Then again… it’s not like I don’t have anything but time,” Tammy murmured.

Slowly a black ugly tear rolled down the skeletal cheek.

Watching it slide down the skull, Warner now knew exactly where all that terrible injustice had indeed come from.

Reaching up with his hand, Warner pushed on his power. Pushed it to appear in his fingertip.

He felt it respond this time. Much more quickly than last time, in fact. His finger began to glow.

Moving that fingertip to the black inky tear, he caught it. It immediately burst apart in a golden shower of sparkles, the yellow flame devouring upward along the tear and into the socket.

“Ow!” Tammy squawked. “That hurt!”

“Sorry. You were leaking… something,” Warner murmured. “Something that can kill people.”

“I did? I was?” Tammy asked, shocked.

“Yes. And I think I understand this much better, now,” said Warner with a sigh.

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