The Lance Brody Series: Books 3 and 4 by Robertson Jr Michael

Author:Robertson Jr, Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

Dark Vacancy

(Lance Brody Series, Book 4)

Prologue

The boy knew his end would come.

He’d known for the past year, and he knew this truth the same way he knew certain other things—inexplicably. A message from the stars, he liked to say to himself and his family. No reason or logic or rationale. Just an understanding that he’d been given information in a way nobody else could comprehend. Well, not nobody.

There were others.

Few, indeed. But they were out there, all the same. Some had already fallen victim, some were perhaps past their prime, too old and too tired to be of much value to either side, but they all lived with their gifts. He wondered if they knew about each other, or if he was alone in the knowledge that others existed. If he’d been bestowed these facts to serve some further purpose, be part of a grander plan.

He wondered if the others had felt the moment the one had joined them. Because for the boy, in the moment he could only infer marked the birth of this new force among them, it was as if time had temporarily stopped. All hatred and evil and disgust had been erased and replaced with a great tidal wave of happiness that crashed to the ground and washed away all that was not pure.

It had felt like salvation. So that was what the boy decided to call the one—Salvation.

But the boy was not naïve enough to believe it was going to be over soon—this ongoing war between the light and the darkness. There would still be much suffering, much struggle and pain and confusion and anger and everything else that drained the human soul. There would be these things for Salvation, too. Maybe most of all. But if anybody was going to have the strength and determination to survive it all, it was that one.

The boy was only disappointed in the fact that he would not be around to see it.

Because the boy’s end was here, and he knew, in the manner in which only he could know things, that Salvation’s work would not come for several years. Long after the boy’s body would be laid to rest in the earth.

He tried to focus on the memory of that moment when time had stopped and the wave of happiness had crashed, but he was failing.

The pain of the present was too much.

The other side knew that Salvation now walked among them. They wanted to find it before it was too late, wanted to use it for their own, help them accomplish their ultimate goal. The goal that the boy—and presumably the others like him—worked to stop. Whether directly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously, they worked to keep the light shining into the darkness.

The darkness was here now. It’d found the boy and it wanted to know what he knew. It wanted to know what he didn’t, as well. And that was the bigger problem.

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