The Lori Saga: Escape by J. R. Kruze & S. H. Marpel

Author:J. R. Kruze & S. H. Marpel [Kruze, J. R. & Marpel, S. H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, romance, fantasy, magic, paranormal, young adult, ghosts
Publisher: Midwest Journal Press
Published: 2018-07-26T05:00:00+00:00

IX

OF COURSE THAT WAS the troll again. After me. That open window gave my scent away. And he was pretty stupid to come into a human yard after me, but that only meant that he was probably very desperate or very hungry.

He was way away from his usual food sources, and even killing wild animals for food took a lot of them to get anywhere near filled up. The problem was that all that amount of killing would bring out hunters into the woods with their flashlights. Strong lights can burn trolls, even though humans can't usually see them. Enough burns can kill trolls. And I'd seen them hide in ponds, with only their nose extended to breathe. More that the water would tend to defuse the strong lights rather than any need to actually hide. For humans didn't want to see what they didn't believe in.

Again, trolls brought it on themselves. If they stayed in their usual hunting grounds they could find enough spirits to dine on.

This one must have been traveling, as I was, when our paths crossed. And now, he'd spent two nights when he should have been traveling, meaning he was either going to try tomorrow night, or give it up.

I wasn't going anywhere until I'd healed. So I would have to trust that Bertie would wake John and get him come out to search again with his flashlight and the troll would get burnt again, and the troll then have to heal, hungry. But trolls didn't get nourishment from the dark like I did from sunshine. They had to eat the free spirits, or fairy folk, or a lot of live animals. Mostly it was the nocturnal predator and game who suffered when a troll was around.

Cattle, sometimes. But usually no more than a snack. The last time some troll tried to feed off them, it wound up being attributed to UFOs or some unexplained mystery.

And you'd think they'd go to graveyards where spirits haunted. But most decent graveyards were well lit inside cities. The older ones usually didn't have ghosts around them, as they also have to feed - on human grief and fear. The people in old graveyards were long gone and so were any relatives to visit them. So the ghosts had faded out or moved on.

Trolls had a hard time finding food, and was the probable reason there weren't many of them left outside their home territories these days.

The mystery was still why this one had come all this way to risk his own life. Not just to find this pixie to end hers.

Oh, wait. Maybe that was it. Because the message I was bringing to the Truth-Seekers.

Oh, boy. Now I'd gotten this human in trouble, too...

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