The Last City Box Set: First Three Books by Logan Keys

Author:Logan Keys [Keys, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Six

Dallas

Tonight, there’s nothing. We all stay at the wall, waiting with our ring of fire, but the things from the night before feel unreal, like a dream, and we feel silly for being afraid. But it’s a lie. They’re trying to make us relax.

The next day, we walk around in a daze, shaking our heads and asking, “Had it really happened?”

It had.

The girl; the beasts; the army man, Pike. It was all real.

Jansen, Sara, and Kent had all burned bright the next morning, and still we had more missing, either having been dragged away or hiding somewhere in the woods.

In the daytime, I couldn’t sleep. Instead, I fell into restless naps with strange nightmares that began with a tingling—sleep paralysis. While my eyes could open, my body wouldn’t respond. It happened several times, and the first time I’d fought against losing control.

The second time the shadow man came to see me. Pike. I knew it was him, but I also knew he couldn’t have travelled the day. Either way, there he was at the edge of my bed.

The third time he appeared with two others. He loomed above, standing shadow legs to either side of my head as he repeated, “You know me, you know me!” in a strange voice.

I woke the last time in such a terrified sweat, I couldn’t calm down for a while after. Cara had come in to check on me, but she left when I asked for some space.

Now, I wander the settlement with new eyes, new insight. For so long, I was only interested in today, in this moment, in Joseph. But now I wonder at tomorrow and the next day. For the first time in a long time, I have a genuine fear for my life—well, actually, no … I fear for my soul. Those things have instilled into me a deep terror; that they’d toy with me until they tired, or until I was dead. This was their goal. Maybe I am their entire goal. Drive me insane, then leave the husk behind.

Where is the benefit in that?

But you can’t make sense of the devious; some hurt just to hurt, and this I’ve already experienced.

I search the town for anyone else who looks like they’d been visited, but I see none. They’re still on the relaxed idea that if the creatures haven’t come in two nights, then maybe they’d never return.

But I know better.

I decide to visit Henry, the man who ran the church, since he’s been holding an all-day service for those who want to pray. The town’s gathered up crosses and holy water, but I’m no fool. What can a gimmick hold against the impossible? Evil doesn’t run and hide from water, though it likes that you think it does.

I wanted to tell them not to waste their time. At the ripe age of thirteen, I had a black cross tattooed onto my back in a moment of rebellion, and now to either side are deep gashes where it ripped me open in battle.

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