Ferocity by Stephen Laws

Author:Stephen Laws [Laws, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781916057838
Publisher: The Brooligan Press
Published: 2019-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

TWENTY SEVEN

Cath drove, and she didn’t care.

She didn’t care now that the wind just seemed to be getting stronger; didn’t care that she was having to grip the steering wheel hard to keep the car from veering to the roadside as the lanes twisted and turned. She’d always prided herself on being a careful driver—but care had been cast to the wind tonight. She was driving too fast and knew it. It was as if the storm wind had seized her, plucked her out of the life she had come to know. She was in a whirlwind that had already carved the road ahead; she was being dragged along in the tail of its ferocious undertow; hurtling onward through the night in those ferocious wind currents. That storm might smash her against a tree; might crash her through the hedges or snatch the car up into a crushing maelstrom of shattered windshields and rending metal. It might tear her apart; rip the life screaming from her throat—to be swallowed by the storm.

But not tonight—not now.

If the car’s wheels did leave the road, a tidal wave of roaring black night sweeping under the chassis, it wouldn’t spin and twist in the vast throat of the tornado like the other cars she’d seen on television news footage. No, it wouldn’t be like that, at all. She’d be in control, flying with the storm. She was so much a part of what was happening tonight that she’d be controlling the very air currents themselves with a twist of that steering wheel.

What the hell am I doing? demanded the sensible woman inside as her headlights swept from side to side in the storm.

I’m running like a kid, answered the other side of her. It’s stupid and it’s foolish, and I’m not a teenage girl in love for the first time. But I can’t help it. And I don’t know what’s going to happen next, but something is going to happen and now I can’t stop it.

You’ll run off the road, you idiot! And then what? Do you want to kill yourself? Think of Rynne.

The wind’s going to take me. And I know it could smash me if it wanted to—know that what’s happened tonight might smash me just as badly in the long run.

Then why. . . ?

Because tonight I’ve got wings. Tonight, at last, there’s a chance that I’m going to fly . . .

And then Cath saw the tree across the road, just as she took the bend much too fast.

She slammed on the brakes, tyres screeching above the storm wind as the car slewed sideways on—and kept sliding broadside toward the tree. She knew then that the car would keep traveling sideways, aided by the wind from behind, and that she would collide with that thrashing mass of branches and solid wood. Gripping the wheel so tightly that her hands looked skeletal, Cath gritted her teeth, braced her arms and waited for the sickening crump of metal.

The car kept sliding, the

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