The MindWar Trilogy by Andrew Klavan

Author:Andrew Klavan [Klavan, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2016-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

LEVEL THREE:

RL

19. SINS OF THE FATHERS

IN HIS DREAM, those tentacles were wrapped around him. He twisted and turned in their muscular grasp, but he couldn’t get free. He pushed desperately against the slimy snake-like skin, but the vile, enormous human face above him laughed at his weakness. Its hate-filled eyes shone blindingly bright.

All around him was the dark—that absolute dark he remembered from the Canyon of Nothingness—that living black that wanted to drag him into its depths, to consume him and make him part of itself.

The tentacles squeezed tighter around his waist. They coiled around his legs so that he couldn’t even try to kick free, but was held fast like a fly waiting to be devoured by a spider. And as Rick felt the breath slowly squeezed out of him, he looked down and saw with horror that the thing was . . . transforming him! His skin was changing . . . becoming slimy . . . scaly . . . and even as his hands pushed against the tentacle’s grip, it became harder and harder for him to tell where his hand ended and the tentacle began . . . The scales were climbing up his arms, covering his chest, rising over his neck . . . He could feel his face beginning to morph into something unimaginably dreadful and reptilian.

That was when he woke up, his breath catching in his throat, his eyes flashing open. Where was he? He sat up quickly.

Through shadows, he saw his black jeans crumpled on the rug. The football poster on the wall. The window with the sunlight gleaming through the break in the curtains. The messy desk with the computer on it. The workout equipment and weights piled in the corner.

His room. He was in his room. It was late. Late afternoon. He’d slept most of the day away.

His breath began to steady. His hands went to his thighs as he became aware of the old familiar pain in his legs. It all came back to him. The MindWar Realm. The wraiths in the ruins. The bridge across the black canyon. Favian’s cottage. Mariel in the pond . . .

And that thing! That nightmare thing, half battleship, half beast. His sense of fear and helplessness at the sight of it, its tentacles waving over half the sky. And that face. Those eyes. So horrifying and yet so familiar.

Rick’s lips parted. Suddenly he realized where he’d seen the Octo-Guardian’s face before.

It was the face of the Troll! The Troll on the video. The ugly little man who had kidnapped Molly!

He had to tell his father. If that Octo-Guardian and the Troll were somehow related, then . . . well, maybe there was some direct connection between where Molly was and the Realm. Maybe if he could get on board that ship, he could help locate her.

It came to him all at once that while he was sleeping, he had somehow begun to formulate a plan. He remembered those blimp-like ships that

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