She could see her anxious reflection in his single round monocle. He was nearly hairless, and the sparse hairs he did have were snow-white. If the elevator jerked again, he looked as if he would burst into a cloud of white dust. Even though she’d taken the ride to the fifth level in Horizon many ...
Cockroach KARA FELT A SUDDEN PULL. She was sucked into the portal as if it were a vacuum.Everywhere she looked was pitch black. She felt her body being pulled, or was she falling? She couldn’t tell. The strange thing was—she wasn’t frightened anymore. She let herself be pulled into the abyss....
He was stiff and twitching. The whites of his eyes shone in the semi-darkness. He rose up on his hind legs and squealed louder. The other horses shifted nervously, too, and looked like they were about to bolt. The horses all seemed to be looking at the bogs. Something in there was setting off the...
Identical in size and choice of weapon, they were a black impenetrable wall of evil and death. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” David rubbed his hands on top of his head. “Four reapers! What do we do now? Our weapons have zero effect on these soul-suckers.” He looked nervously at Kara and then back...
Araneae stepped from the shadows. His large bulbous eyes focused on Zoey, and his mouth twitched into a sneer. “Thought you’d get away did you, little girl?” he said, his voice quivering as though he’d swallowed a harmonica. The dim light cast shadows over his abnormally large head, making him lo...
Life Quest On the ride back to operations, travelling by sky-car and then the elevator, Kara relived the events from the council in her head. If she succeeded in her new mission, she would be with her mother very soon. It was her only chance to make things right. Failure was not an option.But so...
He called an emergency meeting. Now agents Vargas and Ward sat at the table with the directors, but agents Barnes and Lee stood. Their backs were against the wall, and they looked flushed and livid. The directors in Mystic Laws and Regulations, room 3B, sat in stunned silence as Zoey recounted th...
Something snapped. For a moment I was sure he had broken my neck, but I could still move my legs. My eyes felt that they would pop. My throat was aflame, and I was drifting away to the darkness. He pulled me closer to him, so close that I could see the hairs inside his nose and feel his hot punge...
She flew above the clouds. The two-hour journey from Boston to Mr. Patterson’s bookstore was nearing its end, and she hoped to get there before Metatron’s cronies. She didn’t want to imagine what they’d do to the old man. She banked slowly and tucked in her wings a little as she began her descent...