Allie Strom and the Tenth Worthy by Justin M. Stone

Author:Justin M. Stone [Stone, Justin M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elder Tree Press

8

Dream World

They stepped out into chaos. Buildings smoldered in ruins, and scattered fires sent black smoke into the night sky.

“Where do we start?” Daniel asked.

“This way,” Allie said as she started walking. She was sure they would come across Troy and Brenda, somehow. She hadn’t been able to tell Daniel, but when she saw Troy on the image at the school, knowing he’d been taken by the fallen angels, she’d been surprised by the depths of her fear. Maybe what Daniel had said before, about the way she looked at Troy… maybe it had some merit. Maybe she did care for him as more than a friend—like how Daniel seemed to care about Yuko. She wasn’t sure, but she was certainly sick of people around her getting hurt.

She looked for signs of nearby fighting, then turned to Daniel. The desperation in his eyes caused her to miss a step. She wasn’t used to such despair, not from him.

“About what you said back there,” Allie started, probing gently. “About saving all of us. I know how you feel about Yuko. It’s okay, you know.”

“I know.”

“You like her. It’s cool.”

“It makes me jealous of Chris, sometimes, is all.”

“He was Samyaza’s prisoner,” Allie said, confused. “What’s there to be jealous of?”

“No, I mean, now he gets to stay back and be a normal kid, right? He and Paulette have been hanging out a lot. I imagine it’s kind of nice, not having this responsibility on your shoulders.”

“Yeah, I guess.” She walked in silence for a minute, eyes searching the collapsed buildings and a group of trees in the distance. Would she give it up if she could? Leave it all for someone else to figure out? But that would mean trusting her family’s fate to the competence of others.

“But don’t forget, if we fail, they’ll be either killed or enslaved, so….” Allie stopped, unsure.

“Better to have some influence on how it all goes down?” he said, eyes distant.

“Isn’t it?”

“Yeah, I suppose I get that. Though ignorance certainly has something going for it.”

Allie laughed. She had to agree there, and would almost give anything to go back to how it was when she had no idea this crazy spiritual war was going on.

“Look,” she said, pointing to a flutter of birds that burst into the sky.

They sprinted over, careful to avoid sparking power cables and maneuver around a pileup of cars. They reached a small park that was relatively untouched in the havoc, and came to a stop behind a short, granite wall to hide and get a good view.

Next to the swings, Michael was using his fiery sword to deflect blows from Troy, Brenda, and several Strayers. They had him pinned down, in part because he refused to strike Troy and Brenda.

Michael parried a strike from Brenda, then blocked a blow from Troy and shoved him back.

“Return to me, Troy!” Michael called, then moved aside as Brenda came back at him. “Brenda, you must fight it!”

From their hiding spot, Daniel looked at Allie with wide eyes.

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