Riss by Kathi S. Barton

Author:Kathi S. Barton [Barton, Kathi S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Kala sat at the table. She had gotten up from the bed for some reason, and now all she could think about was feathers. Stupid thing was that all the pillows in the apartment she was staying in had foam in them, not a single feather to be found anywhere. She had even tried the comforter and found that it was made with some sort of thick padding. Things were going from weird to weirder all the time. Then there was the box that she’d found that morning. She had a vague idea that she’d talked to someone about it, but for the life of her couldn’t think who it had been.

Within it were all sorts of things she knew didn’t belong to her. There was a man’s shirt, as well as a medallion on a gold chain. But it was the medallion that she continued to think about. It was gold with small jewels surrounding it. Most of them she knew, but there were several that she did not. And in the center of it was a man dressed in what appeared to be something from ages ago, an outfit that she knew was something he would have worn to war, complete with a breastplate and helmet. He held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, and around his head, it appeared that he had a halo, one made of gold.

She had put the long chain around her neck and hadn’t been able to take it off since she’d put it there. For some reason it made her feel warm and safe. The shirt now lay on her bed, and she’d not even bothered to wonder why she’d had the urge to sleep in it. She knew that as soon as she retired for the night it was going to be the only thing she had on. And if those two things weren’t strange enough, there was the file.

In it were houses for sale…not just pictures, but specs for each of them. One of them, the one she had loved the moment she’d seen it, was a nice, big farmhouse with a hundred acres around it, with five bedrooms, four baths, and a kitchen she could see herself baking all sorts of things in. The entire house had been updated too; big closets in every bedroom, the bathrooms with all new showers, and the master bath had a large claw-foot tub, just like the ones she’d seen as a kid. And the yard. She could see a swing set in the front, a large sand box in the rear, dogs and cats running through the barn, and fields with the children.

Sighing heavily, she closed the folder on the pipe dreams and put it under the place mat. Kala knew that things like this were never going to be in her cards, and she might as well give up on it now. Getting up, she went to the fridge to get a glass of water and turned to see a man standing in the kitchen with her.

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