Marion Zimmer Bradley & Holly Lisle - Glenraven 01 by Glenraven

Author:Glenraven
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-11-23T23:40:59+00:00

Come

come to me us we want love desire want want you

love you we can give give you peace

peace rest silence love come

No, Jay thought. I don’t think so. Not today. “She’s what the men saw, isn’t she?” Sophie asked. “Probably. Probably why some of them sounded happy at first.” She backed up a step, and then another, moving cautiously away from the thing, you we you

need us need

I we can give

what you want everything everything!

The thing was more tempting than it had any business being. Jay didn’t desire peace and silence and release from the troubles of the world. In spite of that, she found herself wanting to go to it. Wanting. She didn’t want what it offered, but some traitorous part of her acted as if she did.

Sophie had taken the first two backward steps with her, but when Jayjay took a third, Sophie didn’t follow.

Instead, she cocked her head as if listening. She held very still for a moment. “Oh,” Sophie whispered. “Yes.” She stepped forward.

Jayjay grabbed her. “No, Sophie. Bad idea. Bad idea, Soph. I don’t know what it’s telling you, but don’t listen to it.”

“Karen,” she said softly. “She can take me to Karen.”

“No she can’t.” Jay moved forward, locked both arms around Sophie’s waist, and started backing. “She’s lying.”

“You don’t know that.”

Which was true, Jay reflected, tugging. She didn’t know. The odds that the woman of light was telling the truth, however, seemed small enough to fit comfortably under the lens of an electron microscope, if electron microscopes had lenses.

Sophie pulled against her. Jay struggled, but they moved forward anyway; Sophie wanted this desperately, and her strength because of that was enormously greater than Jay’s. Jay reflected that she didn’t want anything.

Yes, I do, though. I want my friend to live.

She pulled harder.

The woman beckoned, still smiling.

Sophie gained another step, dragging Jay with her.

Shit.

How could she stop Sophie? The flashlight clipped to her belt? Worth a try, anyway. Anything was worth a try. She hung on with one arm, lost another two steps to Sophie’s forward momentum, got the flashlight free and with a prayer that she wouldn’t do any permanent damage, and that they would live long enough for it to matter, brought it down on the back of Sophie’s head in one smooth overhand arc.

Sophie groaned once and dropped like a felled ox, collapsing into Jay. Dead meat.

The beautiful face snarled. The woman of light rose to her feet and screamed a many-tongued banshee scream.

“Oh, God,” Jay whispered. She linked her arms under Sophie’s armpits and started dragging her backward.

The woman took a step toward her, covering a lot of ground.

I’m going to die going to die going to die to die to die die die die…

Her brain screamed; her body kept moving. Hopeless. Back and back and back, and the thing took another slow step and its face mutated into something hideous, the light forming and shaping into a snouted dragonish visage complete with horns and forked tongue and teeth as long as Jay’s arm.

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