The Starlight Chronicles: Slumbering by C. S. Johnson

Author:C. S. Johnson [Johnson, C. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781449779115
Publisher: WestBowPress
Published: 2013-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

11

Attack

The rain seemed to match my mood as I walked towards the school once more; a full week of non-stop rain had passed. But I couldn’t be sure whether it was the rain or the mess with Gwen and Tim which made me raw and awful.

Rawful, I supposed.

“It’s not my fault,” I muttered to myself, splashing through the puddles. “How could I anticipate Gwen would feel so sorry for that drama geek enough she would say she had ‘feelings’ for him? Those feelings could easily be pity as much as love.”

I just haven’t had the best week, I told myself. First we lost at Homecoming, then I got detention, then I’m stuck at play practice for detention, and then girl I’ve deemed lucky enough to go out with me decided to hook up with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s long-lost great-grandson.

I sighed, looking up at the sky, a small part of my mind worried that it was worse than that, too. There was also the question of my sanity, the condition of my brain, or the conspiracy of my company to consider – the flashes of alternate realities haunting me since the meteorite struck.

The images, which I once thought were peaceful and welcoming, like a private island for the mind to wonder off to occasionally, had begun burning and stinging into my very bones – although that might’ve had something to do with the fact I kept falling asleep in drama class.

Earlier that morning, I’d woken up to a dream of some sort, with my back and arms stinging and my head pinching with pain. My eyes had been blurry, but I could’ve sworn my arm was glowing at first, too.

It wasn’t even that weird of a dream, except for a couple of things.

There was this woman in it. She was colored a blue color. I called her Maia, the name I’d assigned to her from the other dream I’d had.

She seemed familiar to me as she lounged about. She’d taken a nap in the sky, high above all the city rain. I saw her as she dozed peacefully, while something like a servant or a minion punched out rain, thunder, and lightning on the city below.

I looked up at the sky as I walked onward to school, and in between blinks I shook my head. There would be no way to see if that were even remotely true. Clouds usually… I faltered. Looking up again, I saw just rain falling. “There are no clouds.”

“There are no clouds.” Then it’s another dream that scourged my mind. The girl. That’s what she’d said as she looked up at the sky.

“That’s weird,” I murmured slowly. “Huh.” I shook it off as best as I can. The power plant one town over must’ve been experimenting with nuclear power again. I pushed the thought aside as I relentlessly marched on through the rain.

One day I would run out of excuses. One day this relentless pursuit would end, and I would be flooded with new revelation. The

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