PS The Dragon Fights (Shadeworld Book 2) by K.G. Wilkie

Author:K.G. Wilkie [Wilkie, K.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-14T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Town Bazaar

Richard's portal dumped her off in her bedroom at home. She leaned against the wall and closed her eyes, taking in the feeling of freedom; but she couldn't waste much time on that when she knew pursuit was likely not far behind. Alyss had thoughts and plans race through her head and it was so tempting to just take her time and think through a plan, but she knew she'd have to act. Now. She dumped all her binders and pencil case on the floor to clear space in her backpack. She rushed around the house, stopping by the pantry and garage where she packed some food and supplies and stuffed them in the bag. Then a quick scrabble in a box labeled "manure fertilizer" revealed the stash of emergency cash her parents thankfully kept for times of need. Escape, in her mind, definitely qualified.

Alyss paid a taxi a hefty sum to get her to the commuter train station. Once she was there, the ticket counter warned her she had less than a quarter of an hour to get across the entire field to the actual tracks where she'd need to board. She sprinted to make it. Alyss huffed, the air moving far too slowly in and out of her struggling lungs, but she knew she couldn't stop running until she was gone.

One train ride and four buses later the view outside the window had grown brown, even as more towering high rises started to crop up. She boarded yet another vehicle, but eventually her last bus was stopped by a smoking engine and dumped all of its passengers in a rest stop town along the road before finishing its route to get from Vegas to LA. The other passengers were still close enough to home that they could call for rides from family and friends from their starting point, but no one could offer her a ride even when she asked them. One passenger told her that the next town over had a bus that would take her the rest of the way to the West Coast, so she trudged along the shoulder of the highway until she eventually came to Sunny Oaks. Sunny Oaks was neither sunny nor filled with trees of any variety. In fact, it seemed to be devoid of almost anything. She'd been walking, tired and thirsty, for miles until she made it there and realized the only intact buildings were a deserted gas station and an old chapel. There were blocks of other structures, but all of them had lost the fight to time and gravity and lay crumpled on the ground. Some houses still stood a little behind the gas station, but they looked empty. The lawns were bare of any greenery and the driveways were cracked. Some of them had holes in the roof. All of them were faded. She still knocked on the doors, just to check, but the sound of her fist echoed in each one and nobody came to answer it.

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