The Revealed (The Lakewood Series Book 2) by Sarah Kleck

Author:Sarah Kleck [Kleck, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503954847
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Published: 2016-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

“Ready?” Jared asked, taking my hand.

I only realized we’d arrived at the portal when I looked down and noticed the smoke-like fog snaking around my ankles. The time had come to leave Avalon. I looked around one last time to see dozens of pairs of eyes light up among the trees. They had come to say farewell. An iron fist gripped my heart.

“I’ll be back,” I whispered into the woods, praying that I’d be able to keep this promise.

I straightened my back and nodded to Jared, and then we plunged into the fog. He didn’t let me go, firmly held my hand, and led me. Soon it became difficult to see my hand before my eyes. I shuddered at the thought of what awaited us. The carpet of corpses, Zara turning into an awful snake-like creature, groaning women, crying children with soulless eyes . . . those images were etched into my memory.

Soon we had left the silver fog behind. I was on the lookout but couldn’t see anything in the fog. No dead, no damnati, no phantoms grasping for me—nothing. Nothing but the uniform, shifting whiteness. At first, I didn’t know what it meant, but then I understood that all the horror I had experienced before must have been Morgana’s handiwork. Now she’d lost her power over Avalon, and the fog and phantoms had disappeared with her. The fog was no longer terrifying. I looked at Jared, about to say something about not being afraid, when his expression changed. My eyes widened. I followed his look. There! The outline of a shadow. I held my breath and grasped Jared’s hand even tighter.

Had I been wrong? Were the apparitions still here? Jared squeezed my hand as we marched on.

There was a figure sitting on the ground. Jared headed straight for it—a dark-blond shock of hair over muscular shoulders.

“Fuck!” Jared shouted. He ran ahead without letting go of my hand, pulling me after him. I suddenly realized who was sitting on the ground.

“Colin!” I shouted, as Jared sprinted the last yards toward him, grabbed his shoulder, and shook him.

“What’s wrong with you?” Jared wanted to know as he searched for injuries. Colin was completely out of it. His legs were stretched out, his shoulders slumped. His head was tilted forward, and his arms hung limp. His hands rested in his lap, and every muscle was slack.

“Oh God, what’s with him?” My voice sounded far too shrill.

Jared examined his best friend’s body one more time. Lifted his eyelids, pressed his fingers on the jaw joints to open Colin’s mouth, looked in his ears.

“Nothing.” Jared’s voice cracked.

I couldn’t see anything that might have caused his condition, either. Did he have internal bleeding?

Suddenly, Colin opened his mouth and mumbled.

“What?” Jared and I asked simultaneously.

Colin was totally out of it, as if paralyzed. He might as well have been on another planet, he was that unreachable. It was strange to touch someone physically when they were so remote.

“Can’t you do anything?” I asked Jared desperately.

He grasped his hair with both hands.

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