The Forgotten by R. L. King

Author:R. L. King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: R. L. King
Published: 2015-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

When Jason opened his eyes, he was lying on a dusty stone floor. Gingerly he sat up—his muscles ached, and for a moment he couldn’t remember why. Then he saw the wall only a couple of feet in front of him and realized what had happened.

Stone lay a few feet away from him, stirring but clearly not fully awake yet.

Jason took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and let his mind drift back over to what had just happened. His whole body still shook. As his mind lit on the image of the thing he’d seen right before they’d exited the portal, a sudden overwhelming wave of nausea swept over him. He looked wildly around and spotted a trash can next to a table; he barely made it there before his entire Passage to India lunch special made a violent and spectacular return appearance.

For a while he just knelt there clutching the trash can, his hair hanging limply down over his eyes, and tried to get his breathing under control. What the hell had that been? He’d never been more terrified in his life. Those things—it was as if they had contained the essence of everything that was wrong with the world. And they had wanted him. He had no doubt about that. If this was how mages traveled, then he’d take a bus, thank you very much. He was going to have nightmares about that trip for the rest of his life. Again, an absurd thought popped into his mind (that was happening a lot lately, he noticed): he’d never done drugs with his friends back in high school, but he was pretty sure he had just won the distinction of having the worst “bad trip” ever. Too bad he couldn’t tell anybody about it.

The nausea abating now (which was good, because he didn’t think he had anything else to offer if it hit him again), he dragged himself up and took in the area around him. Small stone room, table, wooden door, old bookshelf. Light from couple of electric sconces on the walls.

Oh, and of course there was the shimmering portal in the middle of the room. Mustn’t forget about that. Jason eyed it warily, not wanting to get too close for fear one of those things would reach a hand or a claw or a tentacle or whatever else it had through and yank him, screaming for dear life, back through to the other side. Yeah, it was irrational. He didn’t care. He thought he was entitled to a little irrationality right about now.

He squatted down next to Stone. “Doc? Wake up. I think we’re—wherever we were trying to get to.” His mouth tasted horrible, and he wished that guys still carried handkerchiefs—or better yet, that he could get his hands on a large quantity of water.

Stone put a hand to his head and winced. “You chucked me into a wall.”

“Yeah, well—sorry about that. I hit the same one myself. I wasn’t exactly thinking straight

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