The Phoenix Grail by Helen Savore

Author:Helen Savore [Savore, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oberon's Forge Press llc
Published: 2019-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

Jamie sprung awake, his heart racing. His eyes roved around his room as he panted, but he couldn’t figure out why. Nothing was out of place, or no more out of place— than he’d left it. He didn’t have a lot of stuff. Sports equipment, too many medical textbooks. Mostly boxes he hadn’t bothered to unpack since moving.

He caught his breath and forced it to slow.

The shadows outside the window stretched in the wrong direction. It was late afternoon. Where had the day gone?

He swung his legs around to get up and realized he still wore his shin guards. He searched the floor. His football bag wasn’t there.

Jamie bent to stand and his stomach flared in pain. He touched it, but the sensation quickly disappeared.

He lay down. What was he doing before he fell asleep? Just the game. It shouldn’t have been that strenuous, especially not his stomach. Did he wipe out again?

How did the game end?

Jamie closed his eyes and rewound the plays, and part way through caught Drea’s gaze.

Drea. The woods, the kiss, the creature, and the shock.

He’d attacked. And Drea had… rescued him?

How had she interacted with the vision of herself? Did she know something? Or had he imagined her twice?

Jamie jumped up, pushing through his pain, and got ready to leave. He had to know if she was actually down there, because if she was… He sat back down. What did that mean? The things he’s seen, they bothered him. They meant something. But they couldn’t be real, weren’t corporeal. But if Drea could interact with them, too, did it mean they were real? Was he seeing something more than an omen?

He got up again and ran out of his room passing Rhys on the way out.

“Jamie!” He beamed and held out his arms. “So?”

Jamie shoved by in the small stairway. “So what? I’m sorry, I gotta go. Later, Rhys.”

“Already ready for round two?”

Jamie spun on the landing. “What’re you talking about?”

“Oh, don’t pretend Alexandrea wasn’t here.” He winked. “I caught her coming out of your room.”

Jamie let out a breath. She must have brought him home afterward. So she had been there, at the field at the very least. Rhys wasn’t definitive, though. Jamie still had to find her to know for sure.

He held out a hand, ready to respond to Rhys, but he had nothing. His head bobbed as he tried again and again to put the right words in his mouth. “Just, promise me you won’t say anything?”

Rhys shrugged. “What are friends for?”

Jamie rolled his eyes as he grabbed his bike off the hook. “Friends are for lending their cars? Or at least the loaner from the dealership?”

“No can do, some of us have sterling reputations to maintain. Besides, I’ve got plans of my own tonight.” He continued up the stairs. “Say hi to Alexandrea for me.”

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