Where Nightmares Ride by R A Baxter

Author:R A Baxter [Baxter, R A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733908573
Publisher: Immortal Works
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Katie lay on her side, staring at the empty passageway where the bald man had been standing seconds earlier. He was gone. No ruins. No smoke. No rubble. Just an open path between two boulders. No flashlights or flames accounted for the dim, yellowish glow illuminating the cavern around her.

“Are you okay, Katie?” Clara pushed Jack off her stomach and rolled over to her right.

“I think so. What just happened?”

“The explosives.” Jack propped himself up on his elbows to see over Clara. “Avard spilled that napalm all over. I think that bald guy kicked the flame into it.”

“Then why aren’t we dead?” Katie stared at Jack. “Why didn’t this place collapse?”

Jack only stared back at her.

Katie forced herself upright and looked around the beehive-shaped space, its bumpy, curved walls rising into a conical ceiling carved from rough stone. A rounded tunnel entrance punctured the wall fifteen feet behind her and another tunnel cut into the wall twenty-five feet beyond Jack.

A cawing sound turned her attention to a black bird perched on a protruding rock near the ceiling. It soared to a ledge on the opposite side of the cavern. She gave Clara a hand and helped her up.

Jack stood and rubbed his eyes, then massaged his ribs. He took three steps toward Katie, his eyebrows rising, and looked down at his feet. “The ground looks solid, but my feet keep sinking into it.”

“Mine too,” Clara said. “And your voices sound muffled. And where is that weird light coming from?”

“Nothing’s making sense.” Katie shook her head and wiped dust out of her hair. “One minute, you two were shoving me against a rock wall, and the next, the wall disappeared and you both were falling on top of me.”

“What wall? You told me that crow flew through the passage.” Jack pointed at the bird.

“It flew between the boulders, but the passage was dark. I followed it and ran into a wall. Couldn’t you tell I couldn’t move? You pushed me against the wall so hard I couldn’t breathe.”

“I’m sorry. I assumed you stopped to move rubble out of the way, or something.”

Clara shook her said. “So, you’re saying a rock wall just disappeared into nothing?”

“I don’t know what I’m saying,” Katie said. “All I know is there was a wall right there and now it’s gone. That bald guy was following us, but he stopped all of a sudden, like he’d run into a window. He kicked that fire stick and everything went really bright for a second.”

“That’s how it looked to me, too.” Jack walked between the boulders, looked around, and shook his head. “Now it looks like no one ever passed through here. It’s got to be an illusion. They did something to our minds.”

“This does feel like a bad dream.” Katie heard a scraping noise and turned to a tunnel behind her. She gasped when a wall of solid rock appeared in its place. A new tunnel appeared in a wall to her right and she turned to Jack, eyes wide.

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