Whisper of Shadows (The Diamond City Magic Novels) by Diana Pharaoh Francis

Author:Diana Pharaoh Francis [Francis, Diana Pharaoh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611947205
Publisher: BelleBooks Inc.
Published: 2016-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

I wasn’t ready for when we abruptly started to descend after about a half-hour flight. I gasped as we seemed to rocket downward at a steep angle. The silence of the whole thing made it worse.

“Nervous?” Taylor flashed a grin at me. “Don’t worry. I’ve got this.” She was in her element.

She leveled off, and we slowed so that we were almost hovering. I could see patches of dark and light below that had to be trees and snow on the mountain. They spread outward and up and down on the left side of the helicopter.

“Bugs Bunny, this is Roadrunner,” Taylor said into headset. “Go for coyote action.”

Taylor watched the ground below out her window, the helicopter bouncing and swinging on the wind. All of a sudden we started dropping. My stomach rose into my throat, and my hands clenched on the sides of the seat.

We turned and spiraled down a ways, and then we dropped down to land. We jolted and scraped over the landing site, and the helicopter settled at an angle. Taylor began shutting it down, and I heaved a sigh, forcing myself to release my fingers from their death grip on the seat.

“Good flying,” I said. “What was that Bugs Bunny business?”

“I had Jamie and Leo set off a couple of flares and drop them in my landing zone near the cave tunnel we’re using. The heat was enough to show me where to land.” She tapped the sides of her goggles. “Thermal imaging. I can see heat signatures with these.”

Just then my door was pulled open. Jamie stood there.

“About time,” he said. “Let’s go.”

I unbuckled my harness and slid out. He steadied me until I found my footing and then guided me across the clearing. Our landing zone was a semiflat shelf surrounded by trees on one side and a steep escarpment on the other. Buried boulders shouldered up through the snow. The helicopter sat slightly tip-tilted, rocking slightly. The skids settled unevenly across rocks and lumpy snow.

Taylor, Leo, and Dalton were busy installing three ground cleats to stabilize the craft. Dalton and Leo each carried one end of the first of three steel rods from where they lay on one side of the clearing. They were five feet long and about four inches in diameter.

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