Midnight's Angels by Tony Richards by Dark Regions Press

Author:Dark Regions Press
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: tony richards, haunted town, raines landing, drp digital, dark regions press, dark regions digital

I’d ridden pillion with her before. And this was pretty much the same experience, the engine howling underneath and the streets around us melting to an almost seamless blur. She wore no helmet and so, obviously, didn’t have one spare. The air was moving past us so fast I had to tuck my face right down to breathe. But none of that seemed to bother her. She’d never been what you would call a cautious driver.

Back in the Victorian era, Woodard Raine’s great grandfather, Regis, had decided to modernize this town. And that meant making the switch from gaslight to electric power. You’d have thought that would be pretty simple for a man with so much witchcraft at his fingertips.

But there are rules to magic, most of the time solid and unbreakable. And one of them -- the same way as in normal life -- forbids perpetual motion. An adept cannot simply say ‘let there be electrical current,’ and then walk away and expect it to last forever. That won’t work, since magic is a hands-on thing.

So Regis had two choices. He could either stand there until the end of days, conjuring up juice for the rest of us. Or he could give himself a break, and commission a power station to be built.

It’s at the far western edge of town, out past where the houses start to thin and the trees begin taking over. The building’s right beside the Adderneck. In fact, that part of the river got a dam as part of the construction.

The Adderneck is deep, you see, its currents strong. And Regis Raine figured, correctly, it would make a perfect source of power. There’s a massive turbine that’s been turning in that dam for more than a century. It needs maintaining, of course. But now, the workers were all gone.

We hurtled down Marshall Drive, going past the corner of Bethany without so much as a sideways glance. The people who fled this place had, as instructed, left the lighting on in their abandoned homes. Windows were still glowing everywhere we looked.

The forest began to swell ahead of us. It had always looked, to my mind, like a semi-living thing. Was filled with overlapping strips of black. And before much longer, it was looming above us like a massive, frozen wave.

If our entire population perished, how long would it be before the tree line started moving in and slowly ripped the town apart? Or would the curse be lifted, letting brand-new people come here, if we were gone?

Mortal thoughts. There was no time for them, so I pushed them aside. Cassie braked so violently that the wheels smoked. I was almost thrown across the road, but clung on tightly.

The houses had vanished by this time. The river was visible to our right. First a pair of willows and a bed of reeds. And then the churning surface, catching the starlight and stretching it out into platinum filaments. We could hear the gurgling it made. But as the Harley’s rumble died away, something else came to my ears.

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