Tim Lebbon - Fears Unnamed by Tim Lebbon

Author:Tim Lebbon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

He had been expecting fresh water—polluted by refuse perhaps, rancid with death—but inland water nonetheless. His first mouthful was brine.

Beneath him, the aircraft seat. Around his waist the seatbelt, which would ensure that he sank to his death. Above him, the wide blue sky he had fallen from.

Under his arms and around his legs, hands lifting him to safety.

“Here’s a live one!” a voice shouted, and it was gruff and excited, not like Amaranth or the people he had heard back there in the land of the lucky. This one held a whole range of experience.

“Unlucky,” Adam muttered, spitting out sea water and feeling a dozen pains bite into him at the same instant. “Bad luck…”

“No, mate,” said a voice with an Irish lilt from somewhere far away. “You’re as lucky as fuck. Everyone else is dead.”

Adam tried to speak, to ask for Alison and Jamie because he knew he was about to die. He had already visited Heaven and slipped back again for his final breath. But the bright sunlight faded to black and the voices receded. Already, he was leaving once more…

As he passed out he fisted his hands so that nothing could hold on to them.

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