Once Upon A Midnight Drow (Goth Drow Book 1) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Martha Carr & Michael Anderle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifty-Three

“So, Q4 is…”

“All the way on the north side.” Rhynehart nodded in the direction they were headed and glanced at the thick, magic-dampening gloves in his hand.

“This place isn’t exactly huge.” Cheyenne turned halfway around to stare at a large military utility vehicle driving by, loaded with whatever important things needed to be covered by a tan tarp.

“Yeah, doesn’t look like it, huh?” Rhynehart nodded at a pair of trolls in the same black fatigues as Vanx who walked out of a black outbuilding. The trolls nodded in return and slipped back into their conversation. “That’s the point of the whole rez layout. You know, I shoulda realized a halfling who doesn’t come up in our system wouldn’t know the first thing about a Border rez. You don’t, do you?”

Cheyenne gave him a sideways glance. “Isn’t it your job to teach the rookie?”

“Yeah, I see what you did there. Watch this.”

They approached the ends of the rows of buildings stretching away from the massive tower behind the entrance gate. Cheyenne didn’t know where these people could have possibly fit Q4, assuming she and Rhynehart hadn’t already reached it without him saying so. The man didn’t stop at the edge of the outbuildings. He kept walking toward the forest on the other side of the clearing where this Reservation 38 had been built.

Then he disappeared again.

“Oh, come on.” Cheyenne hurried to catch up. Her insides squirmed as she passed through the same spot, then she was staring at another huge black tower rising toward the sky in front of her and to the right. She saw more thick forest behind it, while on the other side of the tower, the same gently sloping rise of flat gray rock jutted over the ocean. To her left was the same open space and dirt frontage road they’d driven on to get there. The Jeep was where they’d left it, but she saw no electric gate or goblin in a checkpoint tower this time.

“What happened?”

“Q2,” Rhynehart called without stopping. “Don’t get lost, halfling. Come on.”

Cheyenne took another glance at the vast, dark-gray spire blotting out the sunlight. This is some serious déjà vu, except everything else is different.

Where the dark gray and black stone outbuildings had been before, there were now taller, wider gray buildings that looked more like an indoor convention center or a mall separated physically by stores. The closest building they passed had a billboard-sized sign bolted to the roof, a black background with a bright yellow sunburst in the middle and rows of green vines snaking across the center.

“What’s that?”

“Hospital, more or less.”

“What’s with the sign?”

“It’s a hospital for magicals.” Rhynehart swept his arm in a dismissive arc as they moved down the same track in front of the buildings as they’d traveled the first time. All the buildings were different. “Q2 is where the rez keeps its functional stations, right? Hospital. Food processing and storage. Supplies. Research and development. There’s a lab on the other side of the hospital.

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