Echoes (Book 1): Echoes by Caplan A.M

Author:Caplan, A.M. [Caplan, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Supernatural | Thriller
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-05-07T22:00:00+00:00

18

“Really?” Hannah gave him a suspicious look, eyes narrowed. She refilled his bowl but didn’t hand it to him, holding it back in exchange for an answer. He reached up and pulled it easily from her hands, righting it before the contents slopped over the side.

“Really.” Asher stuck his spoon in the food, but looked up with a grin on his face before he took a bite.

“Did you ever do it?”

He shook his head. “No, but I know several who have, some more than once. It has become a bit of a long-running joke amongst my kind. Also useful if one should need to disappear conveniently. If your plane goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle, no one is really surprised when the body is never found.”

“I don’t believe you.”

Asher raised an eyebrow. “Probably just as well. It will save me a great deal of talking if you are not interested in history as I am aware of it. I was going to tell you about Amelia Earhart, but now, I will not waste my breath.”

Hannah shook her head in amusement while he went to work on the stew, wondering how many other unexplainable disappearances might actually be a little less mysterious than they appeared.

This had been part of their strangely comfortable routine over the past few days. In between questions Hannah basked in the sun streaming through the windows or threw together meals from the contents of the giant refrigerator and pantry. Asher prowled the woods or sat bent over the laptop on the desk in the library.

It was mostly comfortable. Asher abruptly went silent sometimes, eyes growing cloudy, his expression becoming distant and stony. She steered a little clearer of him then. Not because she was afraid or him, or because he was at all threatening toward her—he was unfailingly polite actually, in an old-fashioned, courtly sort of way—but because there was something so alien just under the surface of silent Asher that it made her shy away. Hannah didn’t hold it against him, though. She had been known to go dark herself sometimes.

And they weren’t on vacation, anyway. It was more a surprise they weren’t both wrapped in doom and gloom more often.

For the most part, Asher was plenty talkative. He had lifetimes upon lifetimes of stories, and she had a million and a half questions. If she asked he answered, though not always completely, Hannah suspected. If her questions became too personal he would politely but firmly steer the subject in another direction.

“So you always come back, but how long can you go in between?” He raised an eyebrow, and she thought for a second, then tried to rephrase it so he knew what she meant. “Not like how fast do you come back; I know that part. I mean, what’s the longest someone like you has gone before dying, do you think?” Even if you were decently sure you’d come back, dying was still dying, as he’d said, and she wondered how long it was avoidable.

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