Sun Cursed by Megan Blackwood

Author:Megan Blackwood [Blackwood, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-11T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Two: Friendly Flames

The remnants in the ditch wasted no time in scrambling out after me. I spared one quick glance over my shoulder, then pushed to my feet. Those who had fallen with me were weakened from our battle atop the van, but their strength didn't matter much. If I couldn't fight my way free of these monsters soon, their sheer numbers would overwhelm me. Sunstrider powers were only so strong, especially when the sky was overcast.

The mass of remnants that had been chasing the convoy rushed me, many falling as their feet tangled in the brambles that covered the ground. It didn't matter how many of them fell, they would reach me in large enough numbers to run me to the ground all the same. I cast around, looking for a way out of the quagmire. To my left the ditch separated me from the road, and the swarming mass of remnants pulling themselves out the muddied water made that a difficult path. To my right an empty field stretched into the mist. I could see no further than maybe twenty feet, and I had no idea what waited for me on the other side of that misty barrier. Behind me ran the road to London, an inviting escape, but if I were to run away then the remnants would lose interest in me and turn around, going after the convoy.

I was one sunstrider. The convoy shielded fifteen. It was the easiest math I'd ever done.

Drawing my blade, I tested my knees, feeling strength fill me from what scant light remained in the sky. The wound on my hip had sealed, but blood matted my clothes, filling the air with enough of my scent to drive the remnants wild. That was fine by me. If I were going to be brought down, then I'd be brought down fighting.

I spun back to the remnants in the ditch, bringing my blade across in a wide, glittering arc. None of them had managed to extricate themselves yet, and so my blade severed the heads from five and got stuck in the clavicle of the sixth. The heads of those I decapitated rolled back, splashing into the water.

Bracing my foot against the shoulder of the man my blade had gotten stuck in, I wrenched it free. His body spun away, down into the pesticide-heavy water. Like crabs in a bucket, the remnants below used the corpses of their dead to drag themselves upward, reaching bloodied fingers toward me. The howling of the remnants who had been chasing the convoy grew closer, and I spared them a quick glance as I slashed down, chopping heads open like melons.

A hand gripped my ankle, yanking me down. I hit the ground with a grunt and twisted, wrenching my foot from the remnant's grasp. I kicked out as another hand reached for me and brought my blade around to sever the arm of the remnant who grabbed me to begin with. I kicked back to my feet and dispatched the two who had been scrambling after me.

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