The First Human Rider by Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle

Author:Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle [Vance, Ramy & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642026696
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Alex rushed from the kitchen to the living room. She nearly tripped over her chair while moving so fast. After regaining her balance, she tried to focus on something other than her mother’s frantic screams to keep from freaking out.

Now it wasn’t just Alex’s mother screaming; George had joined in. Both were shouting unintelligibly. Something horrible must be happening.

What if someone was robbing them, or someone had showed up at their door with a gun? It could have been anything, and for the first time in a long time, Alex was completely terrified by what she could not see.

Without thinking about it, Alex reached for the cane hanging from her belt. She quietly unfolded it as she hugged the wall on the opposite side of the door. She knew she couldn’t be seen from here. The wall jutted out, and you had to inch around it to get to the front door.

Alex’s mother was shouting, “What is it, George? What the hell is this thing?”

George had stopped screaming, but he wasn’t making any sense. At first, he was babbling, trying to find the words to describe something. What could they possibly be looking at? Alex wondered.

She’d never heard her father lose his cool like this before. It was rare for him even to raise his voice, but here he was, trapped in the throes of a horror Alex could only imagine.

Neither of her parents had been ready for whatever had been at the door, and Alex knew she wasn’t either. The only difference was that she had the element of surprise.

Alex’s subconscious was saying, “This isn’t Middang3ard, and you aren’t some kind of hero who can swoop in and save the day. You’re a blind girl with a walking cane. What can you do to help?”

Not stand here like an idiot, Alex thought. Then she inched around the wall and listened closely to see if she could pinpoint where the threat was.

It was hard to hear over her mother’s continued screaming. By now, her father had stopped stumbling over his words and was speaking very quietly to whoever was at the door.

Alex jumped out from behind the wall with her walking stick raised. From Liza’s and George’s voices, she could tell roughly where they were. Whatever was freaking them out was most likely between the two adults.

Alex raced forward like all the times in Middang3ard. Even with this being real life, it still felt natural. She’d fought countless gnomes, dwarves, elves, and humans. This wasn’t going to be any different.

Alex leapt, her cane poised for an attack, and brought it down on what she hoped was the head of whoever was trying to break into her house. The first thing she noticed was that whatever she hit was soft and spongy. It was not the skull of a person.

It wasn’t textured like anything that should show up at your front door in the middle of the day. The closest thing she could think of was a pillow that had been stuffed with meat.

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