Caged Fire by L M Preston

Author:L M Preston [Preston, L M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phenomenal One Press
Published: 2019-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

EmVee blinked. She didn’t remember walking here. There was a strange house on a small city block with no other homes on either side of it. The brownstone was slender but went up four stories. Trees, thick and lush, pressed in on it from the sides. Vines snaked from the cement sidewalk up and around the home. Even though the home sat alone, EmVee had a feeling that it was an illusion. That there were other homes next to it, but she only had tunnel vision directed at the one house in front of her. It was an unsettling thought but one she couldn’t push away.

Her mouth flooded with saliva; she pressed the back of her hand to her cold and clammy forehead. The same grogginess she’d felt when her father drove them to The Void from their New York home made her drop her hand to her chest to stop her rapid heartbeat. She wiped away the moisture of unshed tears to fight the dizziness that made her stomach nauseous.

Warm hands held her waist to steady her. “Are you all right?” Kayson’s voice had a deep timbre to it as if he’d started awakening from sleep.

“I think so. How’s Demi?” She twisted around and found both Sax and Demi sprawled on the grass. EmVee rushed to them, falling to the ground next to Demi.

Kayson shook Sax.

EmVee gathered Demi into her arms, placing her friend’s head on her lap. “She feels cold. We have to find Megan or Rachel; they can help her.”

Sax slowly woke up, and reached over to grasp Demi by the waist. “Who’s Megan?”

Kayson stood and pointed. “The thing that lives in that house right there.”

EmVee lifted Demi, helping Sax. Sax gathered Demi into his arms and struggled to stand with Kayson’s help.

“If this is Megan’s house, then we may as well go knock on the door.” EmVee walked in the direction of the front door. It was the only part of the house not crisscrossed with vines.

Before EmVee could knock, the door swung open.

A mass of bright orange and red hair was in a wild mess around Megan’s pale rounded face. It seemed to blow in a wind of its own. “What is taking you so long? I can only block my nosey neighbors out of my business for a short while. Come in. Hurry!” She opened the door wider.

“Thanks, I have friends with me.” EmVee pushed past Megan’s shorter form, still trying to understand what she’d meant. Did she cast spells or something to block the images of her neighbors? Megan was an enigma to her even when she was in The Void before.

EmVee stepped over a few stacks of fallen books. Some stacks were so high they appeared near toppling over as they leaned in toward the wall. The way they were placed made it almost appear decorative as the books were artful and, in some cases, were stacked to the point of forming shapes or figures. Several books held up a desk top in the corner leading to stairs that had random books scattered on them.

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