(eng) K. F. Breene - Fire and Ice 03 by Fused in Fire

Author:Fused in Fire [Fire, Fused in]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

The obvious answer was not to go through the enormous circus tent, but to go around.

The sect seemed to have thought of that.

One side of the tent had pits dug a hundred feet out and going as far back as I could see. Some of those pits were obvious, but—as I quickly found out—some spots that looked like solid ground fell away to spikes of doom.

The other side of the big top ended in a steep cliff that dropped off into nothing. The gorge also spanned about a hundred feet. Someone must have dug it out, because there was no natural reason for there to be a huge drop-off between the two sides.

Clearly they wanted people to experience the circus, or die.

Back near the archway, the lion had wandered off. It had probably found someone new to chase.

“Why don’t we head back to the boat? I bet one will be there,” I said, squinting as a means to block out the music. It didn’t work. Go figure.

Ja mentioned this area was considered the wilds, and it was the best place to get in unnoticed.

“Ja might also have been trying to kill you, remember? She downplayed the whole fog thing.”

We will encounter one or two powerful demons in any of the entry points, and encounter more concentrated sects of power as we get deeper in. There is no easy way to accomplish our tasks, Reagan.

I knew he was right, which made me grumpier.

Fresh sawdust was sprinkled on the well-kept ground in a direct path to the entrance of the circus tent. A monkey wearing a tutu idled by with its hands raised, chirping. Another ten feet down the path, rope lined with colored plastic flags rose along either side of the path, wide at first, then narrowing.

Off to the side of the flap sat a ticket booth with a lone attendant, a bearded cheerleader standing a head taller than Darius.

“How many?” came the attendant’s deep, scratchy voice.

One was on my tongue, but what if they saw through Darius’s suit? They’d probably be more offended by an attempt to break the rules and sneak someone in than they would be by having a vampire in their midst.

On the other hand, admitting to two was pointing out that I had a friend. An invisible friend. Who was lurking around somewhere. Spying.

No one liked spying.

“How many?” the cheerleader asked again.

A presence behind us had me glancing back. I did a double take. Two torsos (and heads) connected at the chest and reduced down to one set of hips and legs.

“Uh huh, that’s happening,” I said, turning back. “Two.”

Without asking for payment, the cheerleader slid two black tickets across the wooden booth. It looked beyond me to the conjoined twins.

“All righty, then.” I edged away, trying to play it cool. I held both tickets and continued through the flap of the circus tent. Light spilled out from within, and that ever present bim-bom, bim-bom, bim-bom rose in volume. It was said that you could never get too much of a good thing, and clearly, this crowd loved that monotonous music.

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