Legacy of Darkness 003: Nocturne House by London Clarke

Author:London Clarke [Clarke, London]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Horror
Publisher: Carfax Abbey Publishing
Published: 2020-05-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Laura

We were expected to attend classes every day at the New Moon New Life Center.

“All right, everyone. Let’s get started. Find a seat.” Tosca Nightwell clapped her hands like she was calling an elementary school classroom to order. Until now, I’d only seen her in passing.

She was strikingly beautiful, with long, curly black hair that tapered down to her waist. Her plump lips were perfectly lined with ruby-red lipstick.

Like Ian, she mesmerized with her movements, her speech. She walked across the room to stand on the elevated stage, showing off her tight, black leather pants and rockstar leather vest.

We sat on swivel seats positioned in two long rows of chairs. We could revolve in a complete circle if we wanted to, and several of us did. Felicity sat perfectly still, her hands on her knees, facing the front of the room.

We were expected to take notes while Tosca outlined SOAL’s principles of self-healing, transcendence, and determining your corresponding elemental. She clicked a remote, and the screen behind her displayed a picture of an ocean.

“If you are most closely aligned with water, for instance, you won’t necessarily be excluded from leadership courses, but it might be that you’re better suited for behind-the-scenes work. Supportive aides are a leader’s touchstone, so don’t get discouraged if your test results show water.”

She clicked the remote again, and animated flames flickered on the screen. “Fire, however, usually indicates a leader. If you test most prominently in the fire category, you will be streamlined directly into our leadership courses.”

A young, waifish girl with a pixie haircut and a skirt that barely covered her rear end carried a tray into the room filled with shot glasses. She made her way up one row and down the other, and from the sighs and conversation, I quickly understood that whatever was on the tray was very much coveted.

“Take your glass, but don’t drink out of it yet,” Tosca called out. “We will all drink together.”

As I lifted my glass from the tray, I caught a whiff of something that didn’t smell like it should be consumed. Metallic. A little like the liquid multivitamins Ivy Cove had fed us, which I’d drunk by holding my nose when I swallowed.

I swiveled the chair around to face Felicity. “What is this?”

“It’s blood,” she said simply.

My mouth fell open, and I nearly dropped the glass, but Felicity steadied my hand.

“Careful.”

“Blood?” I rasped. “No. We’re not really supposed to drink this.”

Felicity’s eyebrows raised as she nodded vigorously. “Oh, yes. I spoke to Desiree this morning on the way in. She told me to expect this. I’m surprised she didn’t tell you. Anyway, it’s in the book.”

Damn it. I still hadn’t moved beyond chapter four. “I must have missed that,” I mumbled.

How in the hell would I ever manage to drink blood? And why? I’d only consumed blood, as one does, after accidentally sticking myself with a needle, but that constituted a minuscule drop from my own skin. The amount that jiggled in the glass was comparable to a shot of whiskey, and we were expected to drink it—well, in cold blood.

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