The Boy Who Fell From the Sky by Benjamin Dean

Author:Benjamin Dean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2024-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14 A Change of Heart

‘Spark!’ I hissed in an attempt to keep my voice down.

It was the following afternoon, and I’d successfully managed to execute the first part of my plan: sneak out of the house. I hadn’t been able to the night before as the pack had been taking it in turns to stay at the house and ‘keep an eye on things’. I took this to actually mean ‘keep an eye on Zed’, but each member of the pack also had to rest at some point, so our house had become their base.

However, by lunchtime the next day they still hadn’t gone. The pack were regrouping, figuring out where best to continue their search. They huddled in the dining room, poring over maps and star co-ordinates, while I itched to get away without drawing attention to myself. Eventually, and with a new plan in place that involved searching closer to the city, the pack had departed together and I was left to my own devices.

Now I just needed to complete the second stage of my grand plan: find Spark.

I checked the treehouse first with no luck. There wasn’t a single piece of proof that he’d ever been there in the first place. That left the woods. If I couldn’t find him there, then I didn’t know what to do. I tried to push away the thought that if Spark was nearby, Selena would’ve found him by now.

Selena had led the pack to an area she said she’d wanted to check out, which was closer to the city in the opposite direction. Teardrop, however, wasn’t happy about it. He suspected the Demon would take refuge in the woods so it could hide.

‘It’ll be getting hungry now too,’ he’d said. ‘Human blood might not be its first choice, but it’ll sink its teeth into a person if it has to in order to stay alive.’

I thought of Spark and his gentle smile full of sunshine. The difference between what the Hunters were looking for and who Spark actually was couldn’t have been starker. Their lies, and the lies I’d been fed my whole life about Demons, only made me want to help him more.

‘Spark! I know you’re here somewhere!’ I hissed again, even though I wasn’t sure if I believed that. The trees surrounding me seemed to mock me with their silence; not even a rustle of leaves interrupted the quiet. ‘I’m not kidding! If you’re here, you’ve got to come out!’ I felt silly talking out loud and almost certainly to myself. Who even knew if Spark had stuck around? Scythe had said it was like finding a needle in a haystack. He could be anywhere. He might’ve even figured out a way to go home. Was he still in this world at all?

After more than an hour of searching, I slumped against a tree, taking a swig of water from a backpack I’d filled with necessities. Other essentials included four packets of crisps, a pack of digestive

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