Siren by Jennifer Melzer

Author:Jennifer Melzer
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Dragon's Gold
Published: 2015-01-05T06:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

CHAPTER TWENTY

Birds chirped in the distance, prodding her from the thick grogginess encasing her like a cocoon. Without opening her eyes, Siren swallowed. Her throat felt raw and angry, as if she’d been up all night screaming, and when she tried to roll onto her side for comfort her body refused to cooperate.

“Yes, I understand,” said a voice. It was deep, familiar, those three words echoing like a powerful soliloquy all around her and urging her from the thick-headed confusion pressing in from all sides. She felt like she should recognize that voice, but try as she might to identify it, her mind would not cooperate.

“…know what you’re asking me to do. I am, after all, just a cat. My capabilities are relatively limited, as I’m sure you’re well aware.”

“I’m not asking you to perform miracles, Pounce. Just get out of the car and the way.”

“How do I know you’re who you claim to be?”

“Pounce, please. She could be bleeding internally. If she dies because you refused to let me heal her, you’ll find out in the most unpleasant way that I am exactly who I say I am.”

“Tsk-tsk, Master. There’s no need to get touchy, really. You can hardly blame me for being cautious.”

“Cautious,” the other voice said with clipped disdain. “You were certainly cautious about letting her drive off in the middle of a tornado, weren’t you? You looked after her really well, I’m sure. Right up until…”

“The moment I let her drive into a tornado, yes, we covered that already, but you’ve clearly forgotten—even though I just pointed it out to you—that I am a cat.”

“A cat who had one job.”

“Right, yes, one job,” the second voice purred sardonically. “A simple task for one of the feline persuasion. What was I supposed to do? Throw myself at her legs and yowl until she deciphered my unique code for, ‘Don’t be an idiot! There’s a tornado coming?’ Honestly, you’re expectations of me are…”

“Just get out of the way,” the other instructed. “I need to put the car back on its wheels so I can get her out of there and tend to her injuries. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to be inside for that.”

“Oh, very well.”

Siren felt something brush across her face, a familiar tickle that twitched in whispers and made her nose itch. She started to reach up—no, that wasn’t quite right—she had to bring her hand downward to brush it across the tip of her nose and forehead.

Her head throbbed like an overripe melon threatening to burst in the July sun, and when she brought her hand to her forehead again the tips of her fingers came away wet.

Gulping a little, she opened her eyes. They hurt as she blinked them, the lashes slightly crusty and sticking together. Everything around her was a blur, and her long black ponytail swayed just at the edge of her vision. Those loose strands fluttered against her cheek as the ponytail danced with her movement.

“Oh my god,” she croaked, the panic of her situation starting to slowly sink in.

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