Winter Chills by S.J. Lomas & A. Q. Hart & S. J. Lomas & Dan MacDonald

Author:S.J. Lomas & A. Q. Hart & S. J. Lomas & Dan MacDonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 8N Publishing

The tittering of the crowd increased, but it was just unimportant background noise to me. I focused on talking with Len.

“Well, uh, it seems surprised that I can see it.”

“Ok, yeah, that makes sense. It can take a lot of energy for a spirit to make itself known. Maybe this one is having an energy surge for some reason and it’s not used to it. Maybe it was the message thing? It might have a connection to someone here. Ask about the message again.”

I could feel Len near me as a buzz of excited energy. He was absolutely living for this bizarre experience. It wasn’t what I’d imagined, but I was doing okay. Maybe there wasn’t anything to be scared of after all. Isn’t that what Len had been trying to tell me for so long?

But the message. Right. That was the last question, but we’d already heard the answer. At least I had…or was that just something I’d imagined? If Len was asking me about it, I must have made it up.

“Do you have a message for someone here?” My voice was stronger this time.

“As a matter of fact,” the voice rattled against my breastbone. “My message is for you.”

I sucked in a deep breath. That was not the answer I wanted.

Goosebumps broke out on my arms and the hairs on the back of my neck perked up like tiny antennae.

The glittering golden object resumed its steady upward, downward motion as the voice crushed the breath from my lungs.

“Be my guest.”

It felt like I’d swallowed something the wrong way and was going to choke.

Sterling realized something was going on and turned on Len.

“You’re freaking her out with this shit. Why did you—”

But his tirade was cut off and everything changed. My body felt as if I’d walked out of a cold shower directly into the violent winds of an ice storm.

I wrapped my arms around myself instinctively, but it didn’t generate any warmth. It felt like I was tipping backward and rising into the air, like I’d been caught in an alien tractor beam.

The sounds of the theater receded away to nothing, replaced by the roaring of winds I couldn’t see or feel.

In fact, I realized I couldn’t see anything at all. Only the darker shadow outline of the figure, the golden something, and nothing more. Even the glowing red exit sign was gone. Something was horribly wrong.

“What happened?” I asked. “Where are we? Len, I can’t see you.”

There was a pause for a moment and then the weird ghost voice rattled to life again.

“This has been my home. I call it the Land of Forgetting. Don’t worry. I don’t expect you to remember that for long.”

I was waiting for my eyes to adjust like they had in the dark theater, but it wasn’t happening. It was pure darkness in all directions.

The only time I’d experienced such complete darkness was when my parents had taken me to Mammoth Cave when I was ten. The guide turned out the lights for one minute and all existence disappeared.

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