The Black Rider by J B Trepagnier

Author:J B Trepagnier [Trepagnier, J B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

A

eron and Leif let me sleep in again. You can gauge how good the sex was by how wobbly your knees were the next day, and mine were like Jell-O. I found them like I did the morning before. They were going through that laptop again, and breakfast was waiting. I plopped on the couch and started shoving food in my face again. I was guessing I was eating another Maria specialty again. It was amazing.

“Find anything interesting?”

“Yeah. There is a vaccine. Doctor X created one with your blood and what they saved of your mother’s. All of Isaiah’s inner circle has gotten it. They don’t know what he’s planning, but he’s promised them paradise, and that’s why they are following him.”

I still hadn’t had time to process what had happened to my mother. She was killed right after I was born, and I hadn’t really had the time to really let that sink in. Maybe my life would have turned out totally different if she had gotten away with both of us. None of this would be happening right now, that was for sure.

“What happens to angels when they die?” I asked.

Where was she now? Was she back in Heaven? Did she know what was happening in the world?

“They are returned to the aether until another angel needs to be created,” Leif said. “She’d have no memories of what happened to her or you. As far as we know, no new angels have been created for a long time now.”

“What was her name?”

“The only Harbinger we know of that went missing was Uthuria. She was a young angel. That was probably how she got captured and couldn’t break free. Harbingers aren’t warriors. They are observers,” Aeron said.

“I don’t passively observe,” I pointed out.

Leif grinned at me.

“No, you’re a little badass Harbinger with a baby blue baseball bat.”

“Are you patronizing me?”

“Not at all. We’ve been saying all angels need to learn to fight for the longest time. All this just proves it. Satan will keep trying. If he got this far this time, there’s no telling what will happen next time.”

I shuddered at the thought.

“So, how do we fix it this time?”

“We’ve got your blood. We’ve got two angels here. I can make a vaccine while I figure out how to wipe out the Rage Heads.”

I got this tingling in my hand. Something was missing. Something was coming, and I needed my sketch pad. My hand needed charcoal. That was what was missing. They knew. I hadn’t said a single word, and they hadn’t been around me when this happened before, but they must have recognized something on my face.

I didn’t even have to leave my seat. Aeron had a sketch pad ready, and Leif handed me a box of charcoal. As soon as I had the smooth chalk in my hand, my vision blurred. I had no idea what it was like when other Harbingers did this. I had no idea how my mother experienced this.

I never knew anything until I snapped out my trance and looked at what I drew.

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