Neon Redemption: An Urban Fantasy Adventure (Words of Power Book 2) by VK Fox

Author:VK Fox [Fox, VK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Last January - Four Months Ago

Everest spent the weekend asking himself questions he should have asked years ago and studyed his future with both eyes open. His selfishness was obvious now that Adam was gone. Dahl didn’t even know how bad it was. Everest knew of no plan for replacement structure or leadership. Mordred might have one. The chilly reality was that a consciousness that was willing to ruin and kill children to sustain his existence was unlikely to have a more respectful and compassionate outlook towards other Sana Baba agents. Adam had only wanted to get away. He’d been willing to leave the ship burning behind him, and Everest had been collusive in his plan.

Monday morning Everest thumbed through the glossary of words in the back of an unlinked copy of his book, the book that had changed his life all those years ago. Lapine was a pretty useless language: there were only about forty words and almost all of them related to rabbit things. Everest had long suspected Richard Adams had invented the whole device so he could have his hero tell the villain to “eat shit” at the climax of the story back in a time when it would have not been socially acceptable to print those words in a novel. But Dahl’s knack for picking out language and his obsession with puzzle-solving had lit a lightbulb in Everest’s mind.

In front of the mirror he donned his fitted dress shirt and slacks for the office, and he couldn’t bring himself to meet his own eyes. Then tea, traffic, stairs, and he was back in familiar work surroundings. Everest took a few minutes to carefully copy a string of letters onto the whiteboard hanging at the back of his office, next to a small doodle of a rabbit.

An avalanche of paperwork on his desk menaced him. Everest took the top folder from the leaning stack and flipped it open: a restoration status report for Kennett Square. Everest thumbed through the file. Donations and memorials were not going to bring back the people the community had lost. Still, it did ease the road going forward. He should visit and get a feel for how things were progressing. It was only a few hours’ drive. Perhaps being on-site would clear his vision as well.

After the incidents last October, Sana Baba had burned a lot of midnight oil puzzling out why creatures like Bunnyman and the Jersey Devil had manifested in the forests outside of Kennett Square, PA. The word “Traveler” hung on everyone’s lips like an ill omen; an extra-natural creature powerful enough to alter reality was terrifying and serious. The barrier had been stable for so long. Why would this happen now? Was it a fluke? Who was behind it? Surely Eileen Kendle, a middle-aged nobody who’d overnight developed weird powers, was not the top dog in this fight. An uncomfortable lack of answers had come out of those investigations. Everest had peered through his second eye, but information was always an inch out of sight, like a name he could almost remember.

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