indigo court 05.5 - night shivers by galenorn yasmine

Author:galenorn, yasmine [galenorn, yasmine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC
Published: 2015-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

I was standing on board a ship, on the deck, and the waves of the sea were growing choppy.

The ship was huge, filled with families. As I watched, they rushed this way and that—trying to tighten down anything that threatened to slide around. A great storm had risen back of the ship, and was bearing down on us quickly. Clouds, gray and pendulous, roiled through the sky, churning as the storm overtook the ship. Crew members raced around, shouting orders to get below before the deluge hit.

I caught my breath, watching as people scattered, struggling to get to the stairwells that led below decks. The waves swelled, rising up to splash across the boat. I cringed as a wall of water came toward me, but as it passed through me as though I didn’t exist, I realized that I was only seeing what had happened. I wasn’t actually there.

That gave me the courage to straighten up and look around.

The storm was really bearing down now, engulfing the boat with cloud and wind. And then, the snow began to fall. Not scattered flakes, but a harsh flurry that verged on a whiteout.

As the mayhem on deck increased, I had a sudden feeling that something was watching from the stern of the ship. I turned, slowly making my way toward the rear of the boat. The screams grew louder as the boat shifted, listing dangerously to the starboard side. For me, moving presented no problem—but the people who were actually aboard were slipping and falling as the waves swelled, tossing the boat around.

And then, I was at the back end, staring into a great wall of water that rose behind the ship. Tidal wave? Tsunami? My first thought was that it was going to sweep down and wash everyone off the deck, and my heart caught in my throat.

But then, I saw something. A man’s face in the wave, staring directly at me.

His features were harsh and angular, his eyes ruthless. Then, a cunning grin, and he whispered something. I could hear the voice on the edge of the slipstream but couldn’t make out the words. The next thing I knew, a wall of frost rolled toward the boat like a wave of water. As it passed over the stern, I braced myself.

Like the water and wind, it passed through me. But as it passed over the crew and passengers, they froze into place, then shattered into white plumes of frost. They vanished, as though they had never existed.

I caught sight of Sweet Pea. Her eyes wide with fear, she turned to race below. The frost passed over her, but it was as though a barrier—a force field—kept it from touching her. She vanished into the hold.

The face in the wave began to laugh, then opened his mouth and sucked all of the wisps of frost that had once been the crew and passengers into his mouth. He swallowed them, and then—

—I was back.

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