The Night Shifters by Emily Devenport

Author:Emily Devenport
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: vampires, urban fantasy, lord of the rings, twilight, buffy the vampire slayer, neil gaiman, time travel romance, inception, patricia briggs, charlaine harris
Publisher: Emily Devenport

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CHAPTER EIGHT

Two Cities, No Waiting

I jammed my eyes shut and held my breath in expectation of the almighty WHAM at the end of the ride.

And held it.

And held it.

And finally had to take a breath, and still no WHAM.

It didn’t seem to me that we had climbed up all that high, but my last fall out of Camilla’s tree had been quite substantial, too. Where would I end up this time? I ought to open my eyes and find out.

Only I didn’t quite have the guts. Because this fall had gone on so long, I was beginning to suspect I wasn’t headed for a comfortable landing. After all, the first time I had leaped by choice, I had one particular destination in mind.

This time I got pushed by someone who probably didn’t have my best interests at heart, despite his claim to the contrary. Two may not have been as mad at me as One was, he might not have been mad at all, but he seemed to enjoy pushing me a lot more than a friend would. If his intention was simply to push, not to get me somewhere I wanted to be, then God only knew where I would end up. It might be like trying to beam down from the starship Enterprise without Scotty or Mr. Spock to set the coordinates. I might be falling into the Grand Canyon, or some other dreadful abyss.

Stop picturing that! I commanded myself. I didn’t really know that the City of Night would conjure up my worst fears if I pictured them too well, but even the possibility made me cast about madly for more comfortable thoughts, not to mention alternative destinations.

Sir John’s Den, I prayed. Nice cozy fire, nice fat chair in front of the nice cozy fire, nice Sir John to talk to – unless he’s busy, because I can just prop my feet up and entertain myself, catch my breath, yes-sirree, nice fat chair, nice comfortable landing, that’s where I’m headed, right there, right NOW.

I pried my eyes open. No cozy fireplace gladdened my heart and no soft chair warmed my bottom, because I was still falling. I could see straight up, through branches of Camilla’s tree, into the starry night. I tried to look around toward the ground, but I couldn’t turn my head far enough, couldn’t make my body shift position at all.

Okay, this SUCKS! I decided. But it was still better than the Grand Canyon. I looked for One and Two (and Blue) in the tree, but if they were there, they were very well hidden. “Hey, guys?” I called. “This isn’t funny.”

My voice sounded weak; it probably couldn’t even travel to the nearest branch, as if the wind were snatching away each word as soon as I uttered it. But I didn’t feel like I was falling that fast – in fact, it seemed like more of a float than a fall, as if the gravity here were only a fraction of normal gravity.

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