The Twins of Noremway Parish by Johnston Eric R

Author:Johnston, Eric R. [Johnston, Eric R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Castle Publishing
Published: 2012-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Ghora Urey ran through the night like he was flying. The air was dry, but he didn’t mind. The new form that he had taken fit him perfectly. He hardly knew what was happening, however. An outside observer, like the Morgans, would say he turned into a wolf and ran off into the night, but his experience had been much different. To him, he did nothing more than change cloaks.

Did he know what was happening? Was he aware that as he ran faster than he ever could have imagined, he had the full-blown appearance of a wolf? No. His thoughts were more wolf-like. He was following a scent, and as he neared the great wall he effortlessly passed through it and found a group of Ujimati on the other side.

There were three large wagons and roughly a hundred people waiting. As Urey approached, still in his wolf form, the man who appeared to be the leader cracked open a tiny shell that was in his hand and held it out to him. Urey ate the treat hungrily and suddenly found himself back in his human form. The salty taste of a peanut lingered in his mouth. “Good to see you could join us, Urey,” the man said. He wore a necklace made of approximately ten shrunken heads. His sharpened teeth were visible as he spoke. His overall countenance was of someone who had endured difficulty and strife for a stretch of time so long as to be unknowable.

The chancellor stood confused, slightly disoriented. “How did I get here?”

“Oh come now, Urey, don’t pretend you don’t remember your night journey.” The three demons—the imps—that Rita and James had seen him speaking to earlier, said. He hadn’t noticed their presence before then. “You are one of us now,” one of them said, but the leader of the Ujimati quickly raised his hand to silence him. “Speak not in my presence, imp.” The three demons retreated into the darkness, becoming nothing but unseen entities among a hundred human figures.

Images of the night, things that could only be described as a wolf’s intuition, flashed in his mind; the transformation from human to wolf, and then back again; the running through the night, longing for the fullness of the moon; the exhilarating feeling of dematerializing and then coming back together to ambush prey. These things were with him, and he couldn’t deny it no matter how much he wanted to.

“The name is Massa of the Ujimati,” the man said. He didn’t hold out his hand or give any other offer of greeting. He stood straight and flashed those sharpened teeth that gleamed with a bright light as they reflected the white rays from the moon. “Garish, ye’ve well met?” He gestured to the man who had earlier that day come to make the water deal with the chancellor. He should have known there was something more sinister happening now. Things had changed. “Yar, Chancellor, the turn o’ the world changes much. Yar, so it does, and an instrument of that change you are, you and the other wolves.

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