A Shadow's Tale by Jennifer Hanlon

Author:Jennifer Hanlon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2014-02-28T07:00:00+00:00

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I screamed as electricity spiked through my body. The scientists scribbled a few more notes down on their clipboards. Three days to go before the prophecy, and I was still in the Milita’s lab, and nowhere close to being able to escape it. Don’t get me wrong, I had tried. I had tried everything I could think of, and nothing had worked. If anything, it had only made things worse. I now had two guards armed with silver bullets posted outside my cell at all times. I spent most of the time outside of the lab drugged up to my eyeballs in sedatives. Inside the lab, they ran experiments on me, determining my weaknesses. My arms were already covered in sores from silver and holy water. They had even tried putting ice against my skin, which had burned without leaving a mark. Fire had invigorated me, to the point where I had almost managed to break free, but I hadn’t been able to get further than the door out of the lab. Now they were trying electricity, having hooked me up to all sorts of vital sign monitors. As glad as I was to see that my primary heart was starting to function again, this was not the way I would have wanted to find out. I arched my back, trying to muffle my scream as another, stronger bolt of electricity spiked.

‘That charge would have been lethal to humans.’

‘I think we can count that although electricity can serve to slow a demon down, in the long run all you will do is anger it.’

‘So the ground teams shouldn’t rely on their tasers.’

‘No, not if they want to make it out alive. We already know that it is nigh on impossible to contain an angered demon.’ A needle slid into the skin of the crook of my elbow, releasing a sedative serum into my bloodstream. Waves of tiredness and nausea slid over my mind. Two guards unhooked me from the machines and dragged me back to my cell.

I lay on my side on the concrete bed, closing my eyes. Tears threatened to spill over. I reached a hand over my shoulder to touch the branding, still heavily scabbed over. I had seen the reflection in the glass front of the cell. The fourth demon they had managed to capture, six black numbers against pale skin. My hand flopped back down onto the concrete, my muscles too tired and heavy to use.

‘Okay, now, how the hell do we open this thing?’ muttered a voice outside the cell door. I tried to lift my head, but the sedative denied me the energy. I could barely lift a finger. My eyelids didn’t want to open.

‘I don’t care how you do it, just get it open before they realise something’s wrong!’ hissed a second.

‘Got it!’

‘Shadow?’ A finger touched the pulse point in my neck before gently pushing one eyelid up. Vrael! The vampire had never looked so good to me as he did now.

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