The Fallen’s Crime: A Codex Blair Novella by Izzy Shows

Author:Izzy Shows [Shows, Izzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-29T23:00:00+00:00

Modern Day, Blair’s House

I stared at mal, waiting for him to continue, but he was gazing off toward the fire that had slowly begun to die. I should probably stand up and tend to it, but I’d been so caught up in the story that I hadn’t given it a single thought.

He had leaned forward over his knees, was playing with the ring on his finger.

“And?” I prompted. I hadn’t wanted to speak up, to break the silence, in case it stopped him from telling the story. But I was dying to know what happened next.

“Rocks fall, everyone died,” he said, still not looking at me and he sounded rather far away. He wasn’t fully aware of the room he was in, I was sure. He was inside the memory now, just automatically responding to the auditory prompt.

“Clearly not, you’re here.” I said, reaching across the coffee table to nudge his leg. “What happened next?”

He jerked his gaze to my hand on his leg and I withdrew it immediately; he followed it back to me then lifted his eyes up to meet mine. He looked so different from how I had ever seen him before: lost and disoriented. He’d always been so self-assured, so confident, so aware of where he was in the world and how to manipulate those around him, and now he didn’t seem to know where he was.

Had he been in the Nightmare?

Oh God, what had his Nightmare been? I was dying to know.

He stared at me, but he didn’t see me for a while before he shut his eyes, a shudder passed through him, and he looked at me again. Really looked at me this time.

He swallowed. “What?”

“I uh, I asked what happened next?” I was still staring at him, bewildered by the vulnerability I had just witnessed, but was gone now. It was as if it had never happened, and I almost thought that I had imagined it. But I hadn’t, I knew that I hadn’t, and I held that conviction close to me. Maybe someday I’d talk to him about it, but I was afraid to bring it up now. I didn’t want to trigger any bad memories, or push him away when I felt that he was close to telling me more about him. I had to know more.

“Oh, well, obviously, we went under the effects of the Nightmare creatures. Not for very long, I don’t think, but it’s impossible to really judge the amount of time that passed while we were under. No one was awake to judge it for us, since I couldn’t kill the monsters. We only had our bodies to judge by, and there wasn’t any hair or nail growth, no lines on the skin, nothing of that sort that would indicate prolonged exposure. That, and the fact that we were still alive. The Nightmare creatures wouldn’t have killed us, but they certainly would have kept us down while someone found us and dragged us off to some dungeon.

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