A War of Daisies (The Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse Book 1) by Chamberlynn A.A

Author:Chamberlynn, A.A. [Chamberlynn, A.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Dynah

W hen Dynah came to in the graveyard, she panicked so severely she nearly fainted again. But this time, the skeletons beneath the earth did not speak to her. Call to her. She got up off the ground and ran back to the creek.

By the time she got back to the cabin with a fresh bucket of water, her mother was in a tizzy.

“Where have you been ?”

Dynah glanced up at the clock on the wall. It had only taken her an extra twenty minutes or so. “Sorry, Mama, I twisted my ankle by the creek and had to rest for a bit before I could walk on it again.”

Her mother grabbed the bucket of cold water and returned to the bedroom. “Don’t come in here. I don’t want you catching it, too.”

Dynah waited in her bedroom. Time stretched on torturously. Worrying about her father. Worrying about Penelope. Trying to find a way to justify what had happened to her at the graveyard.

She would have to confess to her mother that she’d gone quite insane. And then she’d be sent to that mental hospital in Long Pines where people went and never came back. Normal hospitals seemed to have the goal of treating patients and then releasing them back into the world. But not those with problems in their heads. No, those were simply designed to keep people in, away from ordinary folk.

Ordinary folk.

Dynah choked back a sob. She couldn’t burden her mother with this right now. After her father was better—if he got better—then she’d tell her. And maybe, just maybe, if stress had brought this on it would go away eventually. Then she wouldn’t have to tell anyone the things she’d seen. The things she’d felt .

The minutes passed by like honey, slow and sticky. It was so quiet she could hear the ticking of the clock, hear the soft murmur of her mother in the next room praying. As the day wore on, Dynah moved out into the sitting room. Around four, she made dinner for herself and her mother; roasted chicken with beans and corn.

Twice she had to make runs for more cold water. Too scared to return to the creek by the graveyard, she rode Moon bareback to another much farther away. Her mother was too preoccupied to notice.

As afternoon faded into evening, the doctor came back to check on them. Dynah watched him and his black aura with a growing sense of dread. It seemed even bigger and darker than it had this morning. He declared her father’s condition worse and not better, and helped her mother give him more medicine. They whispered together at the bedside, and at one point the doctor reached out and rested a hand on her mother’s hand. Her mother’s face crumpled. It could mean only one thing.

Night fell, full and heavy and bleak. The doctor had left hours ago. Or had it been minutes? Dynah couldn’t tell any longer. She stared out the window, counting the stars as they came out, watching the moon climb higher and higher.

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