Surviving the Landslide by Kyra Dune

Author:Kyra Dune
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ya, young adult, fantasy, urban fantasy, ya fantasy, children with powers, powers
Publisher: Shadow Portal Books
Published: 2016-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Between my throbbing ankle, guilt over my imminent betrayal of Jonah’s trust, and the haunted echo of Megara’s parting words dancing up and down the halls of my mind, I didn’t get any sleep at all that night.

I’d planned to nap for a bit before it was time to meet up with Zack. Instead, I lay there in the dark listening to the sound of my friends breathing and wondering how much more I could take without totally losing my mind.

Once I was as certain as I could be that everyone except me was sound asleep, I threw back the covers and swung my legs over the edge of the cot. I’d kept my clothes on so I wouldn’t have to try dressing without any light. But my sneakers I had taken off and tucked up under the cot.

I reached for them and for a panicked moment my fingers met nothing but air. I could have gone barefoot, but the idea never occurred to me. I guess sometimes a person can get so used to doing something, like wearing her shoes when she goes out, that she can’t even imagine not doing it.

My sneakers were there, a little further to the right than I had thought. I pulled them out and then promptly put the first one on the wrong foot. If this was an indication as to how the rest of this thing was going to go, it was going to be a long night.

With my sneakers on the correct feet, I set about trying to tie them. Now, you wouldn’t think tying your shoes in the dark would be all that hard, right? Your brain knows what to do and your fingers should naturally follow suit. Nope. I don’t know if it was the dark, or my nerves, or some combination of both, but I swear it took me five minutes of fumbling and muttering under my breath to get both of my shoes tied.

All the while I was listening to the sounds around me, so sure someone was going to sit up and ask me what I was doing. I had no lie prepared to answer them with. Luckily for me, I didn’t need one. I slipped out of the bedroom and into the living room without getting caught. There I paused for a couple of seconds to steady my breath and my nerves. It had been a straight shot from my cot to the door so I’d had no trouble. It was going to be a little trickier getting across the living room.

I thought I knew the layout of the furniture well enough not to run into anything, but I went slow anyway. Just in case. And I was doing fine too, until I kicked my left foot into the leg of the chair by the door.

The vibration rattled through my injured ankle and I bet you can guess how that felt. I said a word that would have landed me grounded for a month if my mother had ever heard it coming out of my mouth.

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