With a Golden Sword (DFZ Changeling Book 2) by Rachel Aaron

Author:Rachel Aaron [Aaron, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aaron/Bach
Published: 2023-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Diving into Victor’s dreams was like falling into a vortex. As with everything involving her former master, he dragged her down, sucking her through his suffocating red darkness. It went on so much longer than her descent into Simon’s dream that Lola was staring to worry he’d trapped her in some kind of eternally falling loop when her feet landed on something that didn’t give.

She stopped with a stumble, looking around to see what sort of dream she’d landed in. No matter how hard she squinted, though, there was nothing to see. There was no movement, no people, not even any lights, just red-tinged darkness stretching out forever in every direction.

Lola planted her feet with a frown. She waved her hand in front of her face next. As expected, it was too dark to see it. She could feel it was a hand, though, and not a paw.

Her frown deepened. She must have reverted back to her normal shape sometime during the fall. That shouldn’t have been possible given how little gossamer she’d left herself, but dreams didn’t follow normal logic, and Lola was certain that this was a dream. It had the right feel, though she found it odd that Victor would dream of nothing. Not that she’d wanted to see his twisted dreams, but it was very weird.

Since her normal body seemed to be back, Lola held out her hand to make a flashlight only to think better of it at the last second. She didn’t know what sort of dream this was yet, but shining a light around a sleeping man’s head seemed like a sure-fire way to wake them up. This would all be for nothing if Victor came to and kicked her out before she’d done anything, so Lola settled for groping her way forward, sliding her feet blindly along the ground as she started searching for a way down.

There had to be one. Thanks to Simon, Lola knew that Victor went to his death quite often, and when you went somewhere a lot, you made a path. If Lola could find Victor’s, she should be able to walk right down to the creepy red room she’d busted into when she’d freed Morgan. It was a beautifully simple plan, but as ever, Victor made things difficult.

She walked through the dark for what felt like hours, but her groping hands never bumped into anything. Same went for her feet. Even when she took off the sneakers she hadn’t realized she was wearing until her lace came undone, the floor here all felt the same: a smooth, flat nothing.

It went on for so long, Lola began to worry she’d been wrong before. Maybe Victor wasn’t dreaming after all and she was wandering through the darkness of his unconscious brain. Lola didn’t know if that was possible, but she liked it better than the other explanation, which was that she’d fallen into a trap.

Given whose head she was in, it wasn’t unthinkable, but Lola had never heard of a human who could shape his own dreams.

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