The Ghost Child by Simeon Stoychev

Author:Simeon Stoychev [Stoychev, Simeon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781465936950
Publisher: Simeon Stoychev
Published: 2011-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

The child is invisible in the nighttime, yet bright as the surface of a ruby, a last demonic vision. Only crimson footprints…

The man he chases sobs out a universal prayer for the gods, but only Magz can hear from within. He lands flat with a weight on his back and plows into the underbrush, face cut by gelid leaves. His nails dig red streaks into the ice. He shrieks and begs when someone grabs his hair, but the sawing of iron rips his skull apart by the roots.

Magz abandons the pain and returns to his own body.

He knows their minds now, can sense the coherence of their putrefied fear. Walking among them, he is a dream they can never escape or control, a nightmare abrupt with reality. Warriors weep and call for help that does not come. Magz watches them die through each other's eyes, now gray and bright, now dark and blind, the stares of the fallen, windows that shut one after another, slammed against him.

He is only a glimpse, an illusion. He talks to them in their own language without a sound, reaches in and peels their souls away.

The last three form a circle while flaming torches sputter nearby. Screaming snaps the chieftain's head around, and one of their number is gone, dragged away in steaming tracks of blood and piss on the snow.

Only the chieftain and one other remain. Through the terror of his host, Magz observes the crimson boy standing in the cold. He is transfixed by shadows that spread to either side of him like wings.

To his left, the man is split in half and falls separately, leaking blood and guts into the diamond snow...

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