The Sorcerer Within by Will Rice

Author:Will Rice [Rice, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-26T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Inky darkness roiled around the square of light. Sean pushed groping wet leaves away from his face and shifted his bare feet on the cold earth. The world scraped at him, brushed over him, whistled in his ear, eager to distract him from his purpose, but he locked his jaw and bolted his gaze to the figure in the bright window. Wearing only the T-shirt and shorts that he had been sleeping in, his legs and arms were exposed to the night’s sharpness, but he didn’t let his muscles shiver. A fire burned inside him that ruled every movement and every thought.

His senses were awakened, and hot Red power coursed along his veins. The scents of the garden wafted around him as vividly as coloured smoke, rose and lavender mingling with the smells of earth, brick, blood and the murderer. He could hear the long, deep thumps of his heartbeat like giant slowing footsteps. He didn’t know why his heartbeat slowed at a time when a human’s would quicken. It didn’t matter.

In the corner of his vision he noticed a silky line of crimson on his forearm. He was bleeding. Without turning from the figure in the window he let power pour into the wound and knit together the flesh.

He had been watching his sister’s murderer for almost an hour, his muscles as tense as wound iron springs, his focused mind an unflinching rock. He couldn’t unclench his jaw.

He could swallow the distance between him and the murderer in a breath. He could be through the window and inside the room in seconds, but he had chosen to wait, grinding his fury sharper.

His sister had been killed. He had to keep reminding himself of what had happened, or he would stop believing it. His sister had been killed, by a sorcerer.

It was time for justice.

He shot forward, leaping over the bushes and twigs. The trees were no longer visible against the blackness, at least to a human, but Sean’s Red eyesight could pick out the obstacles. A truck roared on a nearby road, leaves whispered in a rising wind, but nothing else could be heard. He made no sound, and his eyes never left the figure at the window.

The window’s light clicked out into blackness. An after-image of square gold hung in Sean’s eyes as he leapt over a low fence, landed on springy ground and reached the sheer wall of the murderer’s building.

He summoned more power, muttering a focusing chant, and sprang cat-like onto the face of the wall. He scaled the bricks fast, occasionally stabbing his fingers into the mortar for grip. In a heartbeat he was level with the recently lit window. In another heartbeat he had ripped the window open, stripping the catch. The murderer sat on the bed. In another heartbeat he was inside.

He screamed, without words. The murderer looked up, eyes wide.

* * *

Olivia looked up, eyes wide. It was the Red boy, Sean. As he lunged towards her, she rolled off the bed and was on her feet and facing him by the time he turned round.

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