SAVAGE SAINTS by Huss JA

Author:Huss, JA
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Science Future Press
Published: 2022-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - PELL

My balance is off, my head is swimming with visions, and the world beyond Pie is foggy. I hear myself talking and I realize I’m standing outside the tomb. Did I ever go in?

“You don’t look good, Pell. Come on. Let’s go home and sit down. Can you make it down the hill?”

I feel dumb and weak that she even has to ask me this question. And then the fogginess disappears, the visions recede, and I can concentrate again. “I’m fine.”

“I don’t think you’re fine, Pell. What just happened?”

I point at my favorite broken tomb on the top of the hill and Pie tugs me over there. We sit and I take a moment, then try to explain. “I was working on the bag—shit.” I pat my pocket, fully expecting the stupid bag of rings to be missing, but no. It’s still there. Thank the gods. I pull it out. “This fucking bag.”

“Never mind the bag, Pell. Tell me what happened.”

“I was heading up to the hallways to find a new pair of pants—”

“Aww.” Pie leans into me, nudging me playfully with her shoulder. “You were looking for pants.”

I smile at her. “I knew you’d like that. Anyway. I was passing by the black tomb and I saw a door.”

“A door?”

“Yep. I saw it, Pie. And then… I thought I went in. I thought I followed a passageway into a forest. And found another door. You were on the other side of that door, but it wasn’t you, not the way you are now. It was some other you. A little you. Then a more grownup version. And I was there too. You were calling me to you. Well, you calling other me.”

“Oh, man. If the universe made two of me, and I’m just finding this out now, I’m gonna be pissed.” Her words are teasing and mischievous. Like she’s deliberately trying to keep the conversation light.

“And then after that I turned back and there was a whole line of doors. Like… all the doors.” I spread my arms wide. “Thousands of doors. They were all open and on the other side was a view of… here.”

Her perky expression falls and turns into concern. “The sanctuary?”

“Yes. Like… that black tomb is the key to opening all the other tombs.”

“But wait.” Pie puts up a hand. “Why would they lead to the sanctuary? What’s the point of opening those doors only to find yourself back in the sanctuary?”

“No. I agree. That makes no sense. But you know what does make sense? I wasn’t in the sanctuary when I saw the doors. I was somewhere else. I think when you’re here, and you step into the tombs, you don’t see the sanctuary—you see whatever world is on the other side.”

“Oh, I get it. You were on the other side looking back.”

“Yes!” I point at her. “Yes. I think I was seeing the doors from the other side.”

“Weird.”

“That’s not all. Grant was there.”

“Grant? But I thought we decided he was Saturn, or whatever?”

“Yeah.

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