The Shimmer by Carsten Stroud
Author:Carsten Stroud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-08-18T16:00:00+00:00
selena finds a curved space in the air
Selena was in the Long Hall and she knew it very well, although she only remembered anything about it when she was inside it. It rose up and curved away into the shining blue distance, into a shimmering vanishing point that was always receding. There were lights in the ceiling, embedded in what looked like glass but might have been ice and she ran into and out of the pools the lights cast on the floor, which was also made of glass, but glass so clear she could see through it.
She saw what looked like the lights of a great city far down in the velvet darkness, grids and circles and squares of glittering lights in green and gold and red and blue and violet, streets and lanes and avenues, and other patterns too, leaf shaped with glowing silver veins that might have been rivers flowing in valleys between mountains, and diamonds and spheres and discs of pulsing light.
It was too dark to see anything but those ghost lights far away down in the dark and she had no time to think about them.
Because she could feel the man following her down the hallway, a dark force, closing in on her, relentless, and it terrified her, because no one had ever followed her into the Shimmer.
But he was there, chasing her down the hallway... There were doors—gates really—tall arches set into the glassy walls lining the hallway—hundreds and hundreds of them—perhaps thousands perhaps millions—although she had never gone that far down the tunnel—each one identical—a wide Gothic arch of green stone with inlaid bands of polished steel stretching away into the blue distance—and they were all marked with signs—bars and oblongs and diamonds and circles in some silvery metal that shone with a pale moonlight glow in the haloes of light from the ceiling—signs that seemed to have a meaning that floated just beneath the surface of her understanding, and if she only had a moment to study them their meaning would arise and become clear.
But she didn’t, she couldn’t, because he was right there, so close behind her she could feel his radiance, his force, his heat, a steel-gray shape flying down the hallway behind her, flickering in and out of the ceiling lights, getting closer, and this had never happened before—or had it?
She had the lost locket in her closed hand—she had a faint memory of how it had gotten into that policeman’s hands—and the locket radiated there, burning her skin, and the sheer joy she should have felt because she had it back again was muted and faint. She had not expected to find it in that policeman’s house, but in another part of her mind—that part that only opened up for her when she was in the Long Hall—she had always known where it would be.
But she could savor its return later, right now she had to evade the man chasing her...so she ran faster and faster...scanning the
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