The Last Hunter - Pursuit by Jeremy Robinson

Author:Jeremy Robinson [Robinson, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Publisher: Breakneck Media
Published: 2011-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

19

I barely notice the five mile walk as I’m led to Tobias’s and Em’s hideout. We move in silence, vigilant against hunters—who might be looking for me, or for them. Despite the silence, my mind is alive with excitement. I have made friends. Allies. Skilled allies.

Of course, they don’t yet know who I am. Who I really am. And the evil that lives inside me. But I will tell them soon. They need to know that I’m not just an average escapee. Not telling them would put them in more danger than I care to consider. If I’m to shed any more of this blood red hair—like Tobias—I must embrace everything the Nephilim abhor. I’ve done a good job with forgiveness, mercy and love, but need to add honesty to the mix.

I’m so lost in my thoughts that I fail to notice the shifting view of the mountains to my left. I just keep my eyes on the ground, following Tobias. We’re walking along an old path, worn down by the occasional passage of modern man. The firm ice and treaded gouges left by numerous Sno-Cats ensure that we won’t leave any footprints behind. My eyes linger on the tread marks. There have been fifteen thousand, five hundred and twenty-one grooves. I didn’t mean to count them. I barely noticed I had. But when the number pops into my conscious thoughts, it snaps me from my reverie.

A sudden weakness sweeps through my body. I let out a grunt and fall to my knees.

Tobias is by my side in a flash. “Are you all right?”

I feel winded. Emotional. Desperately close to something. Something I have craved since I left Antarctica as a baby.

I’ve felt this intense draw once before. I look up and see the Sno-Cat tracks stretching toward the horizon.

“Is he okay?” Em asks.

I feel Tobias’s hand on my shoulder. “I don’t know,” he says.

“We’re there,” I say.

His hand pulls away.

“How…did you know?”

“This is home,” I say, looking to my left. Except for a shift in the white, snow-coated areas of the massive stone mountains, the view matches my memory perfectly.

“Solomon,” Em says. “This is our home, but how did you know?”

“I’ve been here before.”

Em turns to Tobias. “Is he the boy?”

“You dug in the ice,” Tobias says. “Until you bled. We watched from a distance. I had to recover the small portion of ceiling you uncovered.”

I nod briefly and take several deep breaths to steady myself. The emotional surge that caught me off guard is fading. I need to get harder, I think. If something like this happened at a crucial moment, I’d be dead. But how can I repel all things Nephilim while simultaneously becoming some kind of hard-hearted warrior? Isn’t that exactly what they are?

“Solomon.” Tobias’s voice sounds serious. He senses I’m holding something back and it has him on edge. “When you dug in the ice. That wasn’t your first time here, was it?”

With a shake of my head, I say, “No.”

“Father,” Em says. “I don’t understand.

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