Shimmer by Gow Kailin

Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-02-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

They hurried back, mindful that the woods were not a safe place to linger. Even Fal on seemed a little afraid out there, and Briony had to keep a firm grip on herself to keep from starting at every sound in the darkness. Al the time she had spent in Wicked, and she stil had not quite gotten used to the idea that woods were not silent places, but teemed with unexpected noise and movement. Stil , they would be safe once they reached the inn.

At least, that was what Briony thought right up to the point where they emerged from the trees to see the Edge Inn’s door hanging open. Briony was sure that she hadn’t left it like that when she left to chase her brother through the trees, which meant…

“Someone has been in there,” she said.

Fal on nodded. “We should stay clear then. Cal for help.”

“I’m not going to be kept out of my home by this, Fal on. We are safer inside, anyway. And what kind of help could we cal ? No, I am going in there. Wait here if you want.”

Of course, Briony knew that he wouldn’t stay there, not when she was about to step into somewhere that was potential y dangerous. Knowing that was part of what made it so easy to step inside to face whatever had been done there. They hadn’t been gone long, but it had been more than long enough for someone to wreck the place. Furniture lay broken into jagged fragments. The screen of the TV was smashed, and a shattered picture frame nearby suggested how it had been done. Tables lay upside down by the wal s, as though they had been flung aside.

Her hand on her cross, Briony walked through into the kitchen. If anything, it was in a worse state. Nothing seemed to be where it was supposed to be, and at least one of the kitchen cabinets had been ripped down from the wal and used as a projectile. It looked like some kind of natural disaster had hit the place.

Except, of course, there was nothing natural about it. It had to be vampires. Was this mess the aftermath of a fight, or simply the kind of systematic destruction Briony could imagine Pietre delighting in.

Had Jake been a part of it? Briony did not want to believe it. After al , he had said that her family wasn’t on Pietre’s side despite what had happened to them. But he had lured her away… no, she wouldn’t believe it. He was her brother, despite everything that had happened. He wouldn’t do this to her, or to Aunt Sophie.

At that thought, Briony realized that she hadn’t checked whether her great aunt had come back. She could be in here somewhere, hurt, or bleeding, or worse.

“Aunt Sophie?” Briony cal ed out. She repeated it again, louder this time. She moved from room to room, cal ing out for her great aunt, but there was stil no sign of her.

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