The Hag by Erik Henry Vick

Author:Erik Henry Vick [Vick, Erik Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Bloodletter Collections
Publisher: Ratatoskr Publishing
Published: 2019-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

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Dan Delo strode across the small square of green grass nestled between buildings on the university campus. LaBouche himself had given him his mission, and he’d given instructions on where to go, but as Dan looked around, he didn’t see the people that LaBouche had ordered him to find. The people LaBouche wanted dead.

Each building faced the square with a glass wall, doors set in their middles. They had signs above the doors—The Cosmic Cheeseburger, All Green Grazing, No Soup For You, and, even stranger to Delo, The Lamb and The Lion. Dan could make no sense from the names—well, except for the cosmic cheeseburger one. He supposed the others were restaurants, and perhaps the names said something to the young people attending the university—maybe they gave clues as to what sort of food they sold.

Not that it mattered. In a moment, one of the places would be a mess of shattered glass, splintered wood, broken bodies, and blood. Lots of blood.

Dan longed to stretch his great wings. Keeping them pulled in tight to his body all the time irritated him, which might have explained his horrible temper and the tendency to dismember his victims while they were still alive. Or not.

Thick muscles—what the humans called a bodybuilder physique—rippled beneath his purple scales—scales so dark many mistook them for obsidian. A shade lighter, his leathery wings almost doubled his height and made him appear even bulkier. Around his head, his scales had fused into a protective helmet of a kind, with spikes and horns sticking out like the ball of a morning star.

He’d tried to make his human visage unintimidating—he appeared as a rail-thin geek, not a muscle in sight, with slicked-back hair and wire-rimmed glasses. Very few people paid attention to him—not until it was far too late.

It wasn’t the guise he preferred wearing, but LaBouche had been specific about that. He hadn’t wanted to take any chances that one of the humans might have recognized him after seeing him in Oneka Falls.

As it was, he had to rein in his temper almost every fifteen seconds as young humans brushed against him or stepped on his feet or pushed him to the side. He wanted to lash out, to rake his majestic silver claws down the side of a perfect face, or to bite a chunk out of a muscled athlete’s shoulder.

But he did none of those things.

With razor-sharp focus, he peered through the tinted glass front of The Cosmic Cheeseburger. Inside more pathetic young humans sat, drinking one of their foul concoctions, or eating the flesh of bovines stacked in bread.

He rolled his shoulders, trying to ease the tension out of his back and neck, trying to keep himself loose and ready for the destruction he was about to wreak on the unwitting humans in one of the four eateries. He didn’t see the five people for whom LaBouche had given him images, and he stopped short outside the door to the restaurant.

“Move your ass, geekster.”

Someone shoved him to the side, and without thinking, Dan lashed out, swatting the young man to the ground.

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