The Fallen by Anne Schlea

Author:Anne Schlea [Schlea, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Anna will never cease to be amazed at the ability of humans to ignore the world around them. She wants to hope that normal people would be suspicious if a woman almost six feet tall, dressed in leather pants and a black shirt, wearing big boots that scream “I’m here to kill someone,” walks through their town. But, no. Here in smallville, New York, people actually nod and smile when they pass her on the street while walking their dogs.

“Please tell me there’s some kind of spell on us to hide the fact we look like killers.” She looks over at Riley but he just shrugs. He isn’t quite as obvious. He’d chosen to wear regular human-like jeans and his jacket covered up his weapons nicely.

“You could have dressed less conspicuous.” Riley seems less concerned about the poor townspeople around them than she is. In his mind they’ll be here and gone before any local police involvement can make matters sticky. “I did say we were checking out a local town.”

“You didn’t say we’d be walking down Main Street. You said we were hunting. These are my hunting clothes. If you would have said to wear my blend-in-with-normal-humans clothes I would have worn something different.” Movement catches Anna’s eyes and she looks to her left. A large rat disappears into a city park. Anna reaches over and touches Riley lightly. She nods the direction she’d seen the creature. “Rattus.”

“Let’s go.”

The city park is at the edge of town. They follow the oversized rat through the park to the edge of the cut grass where the wilderness of northern New York State opens up to a whole lot of uncharted land. The creature continues to move away from them through the underbrush and farther into the forest land.

Anna looks at Riley, unsure of their next move. “Well?”

“I guess we should follow it to see if we can find where it’s going.” He reaches into his jacket and pulls out Anna’s katana. “Take this.”

“Many thanks.” The scabbard attaches to her back perfectly. She smiles and swings the blade through the air. “Let’s go.”

The great thing about hunting Rattus is that they’re a stupid breed of creature. Not exactly a demon, it’s an everyday rat that has been fed demon blood. The demon blood will turn the rat into a larger, more aggressive rat that comes and goes at the master demon’s bidding. Chances are, Rattus are being used to lure pets away from homes into the forest where they’ll be eaten by whatever the master is.

Riley and Anna are only about a hundred yards into the forest when the hair on the back of Anna’s neck stands up. She turns around slowly to see a humanoid demon with no hair and glowing yellow eyes. It smiles when she notices it. Without warning it breaks into a run directly at her. “Riley, look out!”

Anna feels Riley come around to her back as she takes a swing at the demon. She expects it

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