Page 18 of Wings of The Wraith
“I really am not.” He laughed.
“Jesus Christ, I have to get out of here!” I turned to run where I’d come but froze. There should have been a door just behind me, but what I was looking at now was a solid wall of steel. It came into my focus as if it had always been there.
I gasped, horrified, and tried to run to the left.
He didn’t come after me, he just watched with an amused expression on his face.
Maybe because the floor I was running on had just faded away and yet I could feel something solid under my feet. To my right the floor moved, but there was a door there.
It had to lead outside, but going that way meant running across a moving floor. One that moved like water.
“Thought you were trying to escape.” The man taunted.
I looked back to him and my mouth dropped when I saw he’d removed his shirt and was now hovering in the air.
My eyes landed on the sharp definition of peaks and valleys all along his abs. Then on his right peck there were the Greek characters for Alpha and Omega tattooed in black, black ink. Along with some other characters from a language I didn’t recognize.
“To escape, you’d have to at least try to stop checking me out.” He laughed. “We can explore each other’s bodies when this is all over. Or, maybe before. Depends on time I suppose.”
I narrowed my eyes at him, wanting to snap at him or something, but I couldn’t.
Escaping was the goal right now.
I ran straight over to the floor and found that Icouldmove across it. The only thing was it kept setting me back. For every step I took forwards, I went back two places.
“It’s called the void,” he said. “You have to have pure thoughts to cross it, and you were just thinking of sex.”
“I was not.” I snapped. Okay, maybe I kind of was. But it was more the case of me feeling something rather than thinking it.
Still, how dare he?
“Why don’t you just fly? Alyssa.” His vice lingered on the edge of my name, making my insides tingle. Then suddenly he appeared on the other side of the room, where I was trying to get to, but he was still in the air.
He placed his hands in the pockets of his leather pants and leaned back against an invisible wall.
“Why don’t you come over here, up here? If you come I’ll show you the way home. It’s just over there.” He pointed and smiled.
I looked through a window that suddenly appeared and saw there was a road outside. It looked like it was near my apartment, although somehow, I knew it couldn’t be.
It wasn’t possible. I couldn’t remember ever seeing a massive castle, big enough to be a world of its own, near my apartment.
“Come on, you could be in your bed within the hour. Don’t you want that? To be home?”
Home.This was the second time tonight this man had appealed to what I treasured most.
Grandma Elma, and home.
In regard to my apartment, it wasn’t anything to shout about, but I bought it with the money she left me in her will. She left me enough so I could buy my apartment and have a home. She always emphasized the importance of that and like everything she’d given me, whether advice or physical things I treasured it.
“Alyssa, just step into the air like you would if you were climbing the stairs,” he smiled at me, making it sound so easy. Like it really was just that easy.
Okay, I could do it. Iwoulddo it and he would show me how to get home.
I took a step just like he said and found my footing, then suddenly I was thrust into the air and hovering just like him.
What the hell?I was flying. I was actually flying!
How many times had I tried to fly when I was little? I even jumped out of a tree once, attempting to fly, and broke my arm.
