12:19 “Touching me,” Kim said, stiff-lipped. “You’re back!” Magick swelled in her, but it was no longer the impossible to ignore noise from when she’d first swallowed the potion. “Was I gone?” Words still slow, stiff with the cold without and that settling within. “Gone enough. Prairie and I had to anchor you.” Kim turned her head. Looked at Prairie’s hand on her shoulder. FollowedContinue reading “Enter the Woods 12:19”
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Enter the Woods 12:18
12:18 Kim watched them move. Slow. Too slow. They weren’t going to be able to keep this up for long. The first wave of elementals flowed at them. Ben braced and met the swing of one with Dempsey’s shield. The hit was hard enough it swung his arm wide, leaving his side vulnerable. Another elemental snaked an impossibly long arm out, clawsContinue reading “Enter the Woods 12:18”
Enter the Woods 12:17
12:17 Ben and Dan stepped in fast and caught Erik before he hit the snow. Now completely free of the snow and with his features no longer stiff with cold the resemblance to Al was uncanny. Un-freaking-canny. Maybe if he opened his eyes it would one-hundred percent confirm that the person was Al. But his eyes, like Gia’s remained closed. His chest rose and fellContinue reading “Enter the Woods 12:17”
Enter the Woods 12:16
12:16 Moving as fast as they could while also maintaining their connections to air, the group cleared at least twenty rooms. All were cold, empty, and devoid of any signs of life. No stray pillows or books or toys. Not that the castle gave the appearance of a place where children played, with or without toys, but the point wasContinue reading “Enter the Woods 12:16”
Enter the Woods 12:15
12:15 Ended up it wasn’t that hard to mount a reindeer. Or at least a mechanical reindeer. Put there to be their mount. Which was good as no one was being particularly coordinated. If the reindeer had been resistant to being mounted there was a very strong possibility most of the group would have been on their asses in the snow. But the reindeer were cooperative andContinue reading “Enter the Woods 12:15”
Enter The Woods – 7:14
7:14 “No!” the word burst out of both Prairie and Patti. Siobhan rolled her lips over her teeth and nodded hard. “Yes.” She looked down at her feet, then out into the darkness in various directions, her head moving like a bobble head with a broken mechanism. “We can’t get use Magick. She seems toContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:14”
Enter The Woods – 7:13
7:13 Kim At first she thought the crackling was the static in her mind. But then the harsh intake of a breath pulled at the darkness, there was the clatter of a chair against the floor, and a higher voiced one of Them screamed, all breath and primal fear, “What are those?” Kim cracked herContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:13”
Enter The Woods – 7:12
7:12 Kim Kim’s lips moved on the opening line of Poe’s Hey Pretty. Sounds came out. And then were just gone. It should have bothered her, losing pieces of herself like that. But so much of her was already gone. What were a few words? “What’s she saying?” “Singing. She’s singing.” “What’s she singing?” “LikeContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:12”
Enter The Woods – 7:11
7:11 Kim The carbon nanotube beach-tumbleweed of her mind is still. It does not shift. It does not twist. It lays flaccid, the once dense, bright, condensed tangle a stainless steel scrubber used rough, pulled out, loose, holes gaping in the once tight weave. Exhausted. She doesn’t even twitch when the pulse comes, just staresContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:11”
Enter The Woods – 7:10
7:10 Kim A carbon nanotube beach-tumbleweed, a kinetic sculpture that never stops shifting and changing its configuration, it is easy to get lost in the chaos of her mind. She no longer had the energy to keep moving. Better to just get lost in the drifting, shifting strands, bulges in the length swollen rotten fruitContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:10”
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