The Embodied Trilogy by JB Dutton

Author:JB Dutton [Dutton, JB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: JD
Published: 2016-07-10T23:00:00+00:00

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Cilic’s burned-out van. Two police cruisers parked in the wasteland nearby. Peering around the corner of the warehouse, Salas observed the activity as a tow truck pulled up. A forensics expert jumped down from the back of the van and unzipped his hazmat suit. A uniformed officer handed some paperwork to the tow truck driver.

A second officer appeared from the far side of the truck, looking right in Salas’s direction. He withdrew out of sight, but too late. The cop began walking in his direction. Salas closed his eyes and clasped his hands together. The cop stopped, almost mid-step, then walked back to his colleagues, shaking his head like he’d entered a room and forgotten what for.

Salas opened his eyes, satisfied. But his expression quickly faded, replaced by a look of fear. He squinted at the roughly paved road that ran alongside the run-down stretch of riverbank. In the distance, something was approaching. Fast. Kicking up dust. Now the fearful expression turned to panic. Salas’s eyes darted back and forth in desperation. The police were behind him, the only place to go was the warehouse. Or the river? He was considering it, almost ready to make a run for it.

The approaching cloud of dust was being made by the black unicorn-peacock galloping toward him.

He sprinted along the side of the warehouse and around the next corner to the back of the building. Just a solid wall of brick with one loading dock door halfway along it, and next to that a regular door up a few metal steps. Across the disused parking lot was another low-rise industrial building whose blank windows stared back at him.

He ran to the loading dock steps and leaped up them. The door was locked. Looking around, he could no longer see the unicorn. He bolted across the lot but stopped in his tracks when the unicorn rounded the corner. It ran toward him. He fled aimlessly but the unicorn was too fast and cornered him at the entrance to the other empty building.

Salas cowered with his back to the door as the unicorn fanned out its peacock tail and advanced steadily toward him. He closed his eyes and put his hands to his temples in a feeble attempt to block the mind probe. The unicorn halted with the horn just inches away from Salas’s forehead. The two Embodied beings remained locked in a telepathic struggle for over a minute, the unicorn occasionally tilting its head slightly, the veins in Salas’s temples almost popping with the pressure of his efforts to resist.

Suddenly Salas stopped resisting, opened his eyes and looked right at the unicorn. He opened his mouth to say no but before the word would come out, the unicorn lowered its horn and plunged it into Salas’s solar plexus. He threw his head back in a silent scream and disembodied, leaving a sparkling diamond pyramid on the ground.

As the unicorn lowered its head to pick up the pyramid in its teeth,

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