The Canyon of the Lost by Peter Nealen

Author:Peter Nealen [Nealen, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

I stopped suddenly. I’d stayed on point. Dan covered our six o’clock. Given that we’d already seen how that thing could seemingly pop up out of nowhere, there wasn’t a single direction that we dared leave uncovered, at least if we could avoid it.

“You see that?” I asked. “Or am I imagining it?”

“See what?” Dan asked as he turned halfway around. He’d been checking the rear again.

I pointed. I had thought I’d seen a glow ahead, kind of orange and flickering, but as soon as I tried to focus on it, it faded into darkness. “A light, up there.”

He squinted. “No…Hold it. Maybe.” There was a long silence, as I swept my eyes around the rocky walls and floor around us. It didn’t look like there were any hiding places close to us, but then, it hadn’t looked like there should have been room for anything to hide in that crack it had grabbed me from, either.

“There might be something up there,” he finally conceded. “Maybe a fire. It’s hard to tell, though; it’s really faint.”

“It’s more than we’ve had so far,” I pointed out.

“You’re right about that. Lead on.”

Of course we’d been staring at that faint glow for just barely too long.

There was a sudden snarl from behind us, and Dan was grabbed and thrown against the cliff. I spun around, bringing my Winchester up, my crucifix swinging on its thong in front of me.

I caught a quick glimpse of luminous green eyes suddenly narrowing, as if looking into a painfully bright spotlight, and then the thing was gone again.

Dan was holding a hand to his nose, and the lower half of his face was covered in blood. “I think that thing broke my nose,” he mumbled, his voice sounding strangely muffled.

“You all right?” I asked, still looking around for it.

“I’ll be fine.” He sounded like he had a bad cold, and was starting to let a little irritation into his voice because of it.

“Well, I think that definitely confirms your theory about its allergic reaction to the Cross,” I said, “though I’m still at a loss as to how we’re going to finish it off.”

Dan apparently didn’t feel the need to chide me about having faith again; either that, or he just didn’t want to talk while his nose was almost smashed flat.

I had to re-orient myself; I’d lost track of just where the glow was during the latest encounter. There was definitely something weird going on in that canyon. Every time I turned around, I had to figure out all over again where I was and what direction I was facing. My innate sense of direction was completely shot.

It took way too long to pick the glow out again; I couldn’t look straight at it or I’d lose it. But I finally found just the right angle and spotted it again. It was definitely uphill and around a corner. A shoulder of rock or a big boulder stood between us and whatever was making the light. Figuring

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