Foxy Heist by Zelda Knight

Author:Zelda Knight [Knight, Zelda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781954541146
Publisher: Aurelia Leo

Chapter 9

Sarah

Maybe fate has finally caught up with me, making a mockery of my end. Perhaps this is the end? Dying alone, fleeing for my life, completely empty-handed. All my struggle, all for nothing. Only my broken body to drag back home as a failure. As a disgrace. What was it all for in the end?

Those negative thoughts were the only way Sarah could unpack her strange predicament. She should be dead, but she still existed. Maybe not in the land of the living, but a plane of existence nonetheless.

A luminous full moon soaked her in its rays as she stumbled up and over a wooden bridge, translucent koi fish the size of small children swimming below. Lightning bugs, whose buds were lit up blue instead of their customary pale yellow, trailed after her as she stumbled toward a dark void.

Her sides ached where Ju-long had rained down his bullets, and the ogres had beat her with their fists. All the injuries were starting to blossom into bruises all over her body. However, Sarah was not burned in the least. Her skin still resembled skin, and her body was intact. She was hurt but largely uninjured in any critical sense. It made no sense.

The Holy Foxfire, or whatever the ancient spell she had drawn on was named, was meant to make Ju-long no more, erase his existence, and destroy his soul. Only then could she have the Eternal Lunar Peal to herself. But instead, she was forced to be destroyed by the flame.

Sarah had just gone through all that abuse to miss out on the reason she’d come to Macau in the first place, the Eternal Lunar Pearl. On top of that, it felt like something had broken inside her. She couldn’t explain what it was.

She felt violently ill in a way that disturbed her and shook her to the core of her being. It was like a piece of her was missing, falling away and falling apart, laying bare her vulnerability like a newborn baby without someone to nurture them in the cold. And she felt cold, freezingly so, clutching her arms as her teeth clattered.

I have to... run. I have to get... help. I have to... find my way... back home…

She kept stepping forward, stumbling and dragging herself back to her feet. Nothing seemed familiar, and it shouldn’t be. She was no longer home, trapped far away in another world altogether. But there had to be a way out.

Sarah couldn’t be trapped in the strange world forever. There was always a way out.

It was unnatural for a mortal to live among immortals for long, and she sensed that if this world wasn’t divine or demonic, it wasn’t made for her kind.

She would be trapped there forever if she couldn’t figure out how to get out. Sarah just knew that to be true in her bone. She couldn’t let that happen. Sarah had so much to live for. She wanted so much more out of her life.

Not like this… Please… Gods… Goddess.

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