Triune by Willow Polson

Author:Willow Polson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: urban fantasy, angels, adventure, speculative fiction, supernatural, brothers, discovery, heroes, superheroes, transformation, superpowers, tea, uplifting, angel fiction
Publisher: Willow Polson

ELEVEN

“Well shit. That’s not good.”

Barrett looked down at where Mike was pointing and saw what he was talking about: A weird dark stain on the delta water spreading from the middle of a levee and toward a new housing development.

“What is that?”

“Oil or something. But why would it be...”

A sudden gust of wind battered them sideways a bit, a high tide and storm surge washing hard against the area the stain was coming from. They recovered, trying to wipe the water out of their faces faster than it was hitting them. Barrett was keenly aware that there was water involved, but there was plenty of land around. Levees, housing tracts, islands... and he could fly out of trouble now. Maybe Mike was right and they could breathe underwater, or not need to breathe at all...

“BEAR.”

Barrett snapped out of his thoughts and looked over at his brother.

“What?”

“I said let’s go down and see where it’s coming from. If nothing else, we should call emergency services and let somebody know.”

“During a storm like this? They’ll all be too busy.”

“Can’t hurt to at least call it in.” Mike glided downward to see what was causing the problem, but stopped before his feet hit the ground. “Oh... this is bad.” Before Barrett could ask what the problem was, Mike was moving skyward again.

“Mike... what...?”

“I think the whole levee is failing. Look, see where the oil slick’s coming from? The water’s discolored from the soil underneath it. If you look closely, that spot is starting to go. It’s misshapen, see?”

Now that he knew what to look for, Barrett could see what his brother meant. The long earthen dam keeping the delta waters separated from the fill dirt the new neighborhood had been built on was starting to go. The pale fan shape of soil under the oil slick showed that water had already seeped through and compromised the structure of the levee, making the oil pipeline bow outward until it had finally failed. And the storm had no end in sight.

“But what can we do about it? It’s not like we can somehow wave a magic wand and have the dirt go back into place. This is for an agency to handle after the storm’s over, Mike.”

“It can’t wait for... oh no.”

As they watched, part of the berm slowly disappeared under the surface of the floodwaters, which eagerly took the opportunity to completely tear the weak section apart. The levee started disappearing like an enormous zipper being undone, more and more water freely flowing unhindered toward the new houses a few hundred yards to the east.

“I’ll call...” they said at the same time, then Mike held up a hand.

“I’ll check the houses, you call it in,” he said. Barrett nodded, already dialing 911 as Mike tucked back his wings and took a power dive toward the houses on the front line. Some were vacant, and some were obviously lived in but the owners weren’t home yet. Some, however, had the lights on, the occupants blissfully

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