Strange Trouble by Laken Cane

Author:Laken Cane [Cane, Laken]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Amazon: B00I8ZGNY6
Publisher: Laken Cane
Published: 2014-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Still staring at Gunnar, she nodded, but didn’t comprehend what he was saying. She heard a buzzing, like a bee had gotten trapped inside her skull. A dozen bees.

“Not now, Gunnar,” Strad said.

She whipped her head around to stare at him. “What did I do, Strad? What did I do? I could have released him. He could have lived.”

“He was dead after the zombie bit him, Rune. Even if you’d released him, it wouldn’t have mattered.” He squeezed her shoulder. “He didn’t want to come back.”

Levi sprinted to the group, his face pale and covered with a sheen of sweat despite the cold. “What’s wrong?” he cried. “Rune, I can’t read what you’re telling me.” He fell to his knees in front of her and put his fingers to his temples. “My head is…I can’t…”

She forced herself to focus on his face. “Shhh. You’re not mine, Levi. You’re free. I didn’t realize I could let you go.”

And she released him.

He got slowly to his feet. “Holy shit.” His voice was quiet. “Holy fucking shit.” He stared at her, then at the crew, then shook his head. “I feel it. I feel the…” He tapped his head. “I’m alone in here again. I’m fucking…I’m me again.” He stared down at her, his fists clenched, his eyes wild. “Fuck you, fucking monster cunt!”

Lex reached him before any of the others could so much as twitch. She slapped his face, hard, then began beating him with her fists. “Don’t you dare,” she screamed. “Don’t you dare, Levi-fucking-Montrosa.”

He held his hands up to fend her off, backing away, his eyes wide and horrified. “God, Rune. I didn’t mean it.”

Ellis, out of breath, a hand to his chest, ran into the clearing. “Here,” he yelled. “What? What?”

Gunnar knelt beside Rune. “Give it to me. Let me take it all away.”

“Back off, Gunnar,” Jack yelled.

Rune put her hands over her too sensitive ears. “Shut up. Everybody just shut the fuck up.”

Into the sudden silence she climbed to her feet. “I want to walk for a while.” She held up her hand when Strad stood. “Alone. I just need to be alone for a little while. I’ll meet you all back at RISC in a couple hours. We need to get back to work.”

Then she walked away. She let the thoughts come, the grief, the worry. It wasn’t as good a purge as getting fucked up, but it was all she had.

She was too exhausted to even hurt herself.

So she walked, deep into Wormwood, alone but for a few watchful Others hiding in the shadows.

She didn’t care if there was danger. Her mind was numb and she was full of confusion. The witch’s magic was inside her, and she didn’t want it. She didn’t want to rule the dead. God, no.

Did she?

Gunnar might take it, but she couldn’t hand such power over to a ghoul. That’d be like handing a loaded gun to a kid.

It was her responsibility.

Maybe she did want it, if she could be honest with herself.

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