The Mountain (The Great Blue Above Book 6) by Kevin George

Author:Kevin George [George, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-13T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Carli squinted, trying to see farther into the distance through the darkness of her visor and the blizzard swirling around her. Moments earlier, she thought she’d glimpsed a dot of glowing light on the horizon—no, several dots, she told herself—but had quickly lost sight of it as the snows fell heavier. Carli looked up toward Wyatt, who continued to ascend along the side of The Mountain, noticing nothing behind—

A flash above caused Carli to bank hard to the left. She narrowly avoided a rocky protrusion, yet another reason to focus on what was in front of them. After flying several passes around the lower part of The Mountain, Wyatt proceeded higher and higher, where visibility worsened by the minute. Gusting winds nearly blew Carli against a rocky cliff face, so she flew a wider berth, making it nearly impossible to spot any sort of entrance. She barely kept sight of Wyatt. Her heart sank when she thought she saw wind throw him against an outcropping. Danger be damned, she banked closer to The Mountain, desperately searching for Wyatt’s body plunging toward the ground. When she spotted him stopped, standing atop the rocky outcropping, she cursed his foolishness but still steered herself closer and landed beside him.

Cutting power to her jetpack, she slipped and nearly lost her footing on the icy outcropping. Wyatt’s hand clamped onto her forearm and pulled her closer to the cliff face. Carli’s pulse exploded. The only thing stopping her from screaming to leave was the thin air making it a struggle to breathe deeply. Wyatt stared up, shuffling along the outcropping, not looking where he stepped, oblivious to the immediate danger they both faced.

“There has to be another way in,” he called out over the shrill wind.

“Not up here there’s not!” Carli yelled, her patience gone.

Wyatt either didn’t hear, didn’t agree or didn’t care. Before Carli’s anger grew into frustration, heavy winds caused them both to stumble toward the edge. Carli prepared to push her jetpack’s power button when the wind suddenly eased. Inches from the edge, Wyatt glanced back at her and smiled. That smile disappeared the moment a loud cracking echoed from above. Wyatt and Carli looked up in time to see chunks of snow and ice falling toward them.

“Fly!” Wyatt yelled.

Carli grasped for her power button but missed, her fingers shaky from a mixture of cold, fear and rushing adrenaline. It didn’t help her concentration when frozen, falling chunks began to crash around her, exploding near her feet. Resisting the urge to look up—for fear of what might hit her—Carli concentrated on the button and finally mashed it, propelling herself skyward. But she no sooner cleared the ledge of the outcropping than frozen debris smashed into her, jostling her off to the side and causing her to lose the grip on her jetpack.

Every bone rattled in her body when she felt something even worse in the pit of her stomach: the sinking sensation of freefall. Snow and ice rained around her, knocking into her as she flailed to find the grip on her jetpack’s controls.

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