Ace of Spiders by Stefan Mohamed

Author:Stefan Mohamed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Salt Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-03-30T12:22:41+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I KNEW SOMETHING WAS wrong as soon as I woke up. Before I woke up, in fact. There was a knowledge, lurking beneath the jumbled residue of stupid dreams and last night’s tears, waiting for me as I forced my eyes open. The light bleeding through the window was dim and . . . weird, somehow . . . and I threw off the covers and scrambled across the bedroom, yanking back the curtains. ‘Lauren,’ I called. ‘Lauren! Daryl!’

Lauren came running in, wrapped in a dressing gown, hair tousled, followed by a galloping beagle. ‘What’s wrong?’ she said. ‘What’s . . .’ Her voice trailed off. Daryl rose up on his hind legs, front paws on the desk, staring out.

‘Well, shiiit,’ he said.

The city was covered in a layer of snow. It was definitely snow, I could tell by the way it fell, that strange thick grace . . . but it was black, like shiny dark soot. It reminded me of learning about volcanic eruptions and cities being coated in ash, but there was no volcano, no giant fire. Just a solid ceiling of deep grey cloud and streams of snow, blacker than sharks’ eyes. There were a few people out in it, but they either stood, slumped, staring in disbelief, or were running their hands through their hair in despair. No happy kids with sledges, no dogs clumsy with eager confusion. I put a hand on Daryl’s back, and Lauren put a hand on my shoulder. ‘I think we’re running out of time,’ she said.

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