Every building. Every barn. The fencing. Even the gardens and the crops in the field were all torched so the entire hillside was black and lifeless. I used my sword to poke through the charred remains of the main farmhouse, but all I found were scorched tiles from the cave...
He took the stairs three at a time. “SARAH! BECKY!” The girl’s rooms were at the end, one next to the other. Becky’s room was first. He flung the door open. A little voice came out of the dark, “Da-Daddy?” Jack flipped on the light switch. The room’s bright primary color scheme jumped out at him....
Every muscle in my body ached from running so hard on the uneven ground of the forest. To make matters worse, as the sun went down, it got more and more difficult to pick my way over the fallen logs and rocks that littered the forest floor. Eva didn’t seem to have the same problem. She moved like...
She’s up with a start, a disoriented jump from the darkness of sleep into the flesh and blood reality of the world. There’s a panicked gasp of air as she pushes away a heavy weight smothering her. But there’s nothing there. Only a faint echo of a dream that she senses was ...
For a second I assumed Aquinas had spoken so softly that I’d misunderstood her. But when she turned to look at me, I could see I’d heard just fine. “You can’t mean that,” I said. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, Jack. You know this.” “There has to be another way. Gregor is pr...
Every weapon we had at the ready. The djinn stood on the walls around us in deadly silence. A hot desert breeze kicked up sand and blew it across the courtyard. “Xavier?” I asked. “Any ideas?” As the brains of our little enterprise I hoped he might have some insight into the djinn and, ideally, h...