The Fae Killers Compendium by Jaxon Reed

Author:Jaxon Reed [Reed, Jaxon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-02T22:00:00+00:00

A flash of black light rippled around Rick. Light suddenly appeared below him as he fell into another world. A floor rushed up to meet him.

Kathump!

Sprawled on the carpet, he felt the floor go down suddenly. People screamed. The distinctive high-pitched whine from prop engines overwhelmed all other sound.

The angle of the floor finally leveled out, and Rick pulled himself up. A flight attendant turned around and saw him getting up. She snapped at him in a clipped British accent.

“Please return to your seat, sir! And for heaven’s sake, buckle in!”

Confused, he stood, then sat in the nearest aisle seat on the back row. Sitting next to a window, a nun stared at him wide-eyed. She crossed herself as he snapped the buckles on his seat belt.

She said, “You weren’t here a minute ago.”

He nodded, and said, “That’s right, Sister.”

He stared all around the plane and tried to figure things out. He looked through the window, and could barely make out the props on the wings. He was in . . . a passenger plane? Everything seemed quaint and old fashioned. The men and women seated in front of him, still alarmed from the plane’s sudden loss of altitude, all wore fine suits and dresses. He looked down and found himself in jeans and a t-shirt.

The interior of the plane pulled at his memory, its outlines and features somehow familiar.

“I know what this is,” he said to the nun. “It’s a DC-4. Man, these used to be the airplane back in the day. I flew one for a while, before we transitioned to the Lockheed Constellation. That was nice because it had a pressurized cabin. And then, of course, we moved to jets.”

The nun stared at him, speechless. She crossed herself again.

The cockpit door burst open in the front of the plane, and a man in uniform wearing a white shirt and a blue pilot’s hat staggered toward the passengers. Rick tilted to the side and watched as the man pulled at his collar, foaming at the mouth. He shuffled a few more paces before collapsing in the aisle. Several people screamed.

One of the flight attendants at the front of the plane stood up, arms stretched out, palms raised. She said, “Everybody calm down! Our co-pilot has the controls, and everything is quite alright!”

Through the doorway, the passengers watched as the other man in the cockpit slumped at the controls suddenly. The nose of the plane went down again, and everybody screamed. The flight attendant rushed in and wrested the copilot off the controls. She pulled the wheel back and the plane leveled out again.

Another flight attendant in the front stood up. She said, “Do not panic! Now, can anybody onboard fly a plane?”

Rick turned and winked at the nun. He said, “How fortuitous.”

He unbuckled his belt, stood, and headed for the cockpit. He passed a man with a plate of food, the inflight meal untouched. Rick said, “Don’t eat the fish.”

He noticed some of the passengers wearing cowboy hats.

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