Dusk Mountain Blues by Deston Munden

Author:Deston Munden
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Moth Wings

Kindle

“I’ve had the pleasure of the first taste of the Flame. That was when I realized we weren’t that much different from moths.” --Remy Breaux

Kindle watched the end of the world and thought nothing of it.

​The memories of it came and went through her waking hours and her sleep. The Flame, as the name suggested, found places of warmth within C’dar’s memories. Sometimes that was good - hands huddled around a bonfire, laughter in the air. Much more often, though, it was the fires of war the visions latched onto.

The world remembered the day it died. It remembered the bombs, the warships of the warring colonies that brought the first Civilization to its knees. Kindle saw the orbital strikes from the Dreadnaughts, the crash of a Cruiser off the shores, the missiles and the raids from the A.I. Darts. She tasted the horror on the air, the desperation locked into the people fighting the war.

The vision was old now. She’d combed through its contents hundreds of times by now, sitting in her bed among the fireflies and the thick smell of swamp water. Kindle blinked the visions away from her own head. After a few deep breaths to anchor herself to reality, she tore the sheet from her bed and walked to the window, flinging it open.

​The almost eternal night of the swamp and the barj made it difficult to tell what time of day it was. The rain didn’t help much. Over the crown of trees, harsh lightning streaked and leaves spun violently in circles. An unsettling feeling churned in her gut. She hadn’t ever thought that she would feel the way her pa did about storms; it never made sense until now.

She leaned over the pane of the window, gathering her strength bit by bit through the humid air. Wind whistled through the willows of the swamp, splashing her face with much needed droplets of water, cooling her down.

Remy warned her that this would happen the deeper she dove through the Flames. Soon she would be able to block it out. That couldn’t come soon enough. Trying to block it all out felt like trying to stop a speeding truck with her hands.

​Just when she thought she was in the clear, another vision swam into her mind. This one felt different than the ones of the past. Urgency ran through her, quickening her heart. She saw a quick glance of a valley, pines and oaks standing tall. She heard a river rushing beside her, the smell of its freshwater odd against where she knew she really was. She turned to see the very thing that drew her here.

The Distillery she saw now wasn’t the one in her memories, the one filled with her uncle’s laughter and her dozens of cousins. Embers of the once-massive building still burned. Blurry figures stood in the middle within a dome of blue lights. Kindle tried to search through the vision for clues. She came up empty. The vision dissolved seconds later.

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