Page 11 of Shadowing Bright
Leo paused.“He said let it fly, but watch out for the agents.”
“The moment they try and breach the house.”
“Acceptable.He’s sending transport for those affected.”
Bullets sprayed through her house, and one caught her in the thigh and the other grazed her ribs.“They are using guns.Activating now.”
She reached out, found every cold and hostile mind, and filled it with the loss of a three-year-old girl who had just lost her ice cream cone.They fought her, but she consumed their cold purpose and gave them preschool.
She wrapped her thigh and cursed the loss of the costume.She couldn’t pry her blood out of anything.It was tenacious.On the plus side, she was able to get at her skin more easily.Her ribs were exposed anyway, so she wrapped them as well.She got her bag with her identification and limped outside.
“Hey.Emmers, right?Is there an ambulance on the way?”
“Yes.Wait.For you?”
“Yeah, shot in the thigh and ribs.Ribs are bleeding like crazy.I am guessing cursed bullets.”
Neekil walked toward her.“Who would be using cursed bullets on you?”
“My husband’s family.I filed for divorce this morning.It’s a huge disrespect from me to them.This was expected.”
Kairek looked around and said, “What happened to them?”
She smiled.“Psychic vampire.I took their cold aggression and gave them preschool battleground.Aren’t they cute?”
The mercenaries were wrestling over guns and eating the berries in the bushes.Her yard was filled with black-garbed preschoolers and alotof heavy weaponry.
Neekil cleared his throat.
“Oh, don’t worry.Matthias is aware of me using my skills for self-defence only.”She swayed and then steadied.“Good thing I ate tonight, or this would have been fatal.You fellas can disarm them, but do it like you would with a child, or they are going to snap out of it.”
The word went out among the other agents, and they bent down and started disarming the mercenaries with playful banter.One of the guys had the bright idea to tell one of the mercenaries that he would get a piece of chocolate for every gun he brought them.That worked really well.
The ambulance pulled up, and Vaia started walking toward it.Well, limping.The medic walked toward her and urged her to sit on the ground.
“Can I just walk to the ambulance?These guys are all disarmed, but they might snap loose from my control.They are trained, after all.I don’t want to be here when they do.”
The medic paused.“Why?What will they do?”
“If they can’t destroy me, they will portal home.Either way, I don’t want to be here.”
“Oh, right.”
“Matthias is aware of what is needed.I am registered and in communication with his office.Can we go?Please?”She staggered to the side.“The bullet is moving.”
“Oh, shit.Right.Come on.”
She walked with the medic and got into the ambulance.They started on the way while the medic unwrapped her thigh.“I can’t see the wound.”
She turned her leg, and the puncture was exposed.She said, “Do you have a secure containment for cursed items?”
“Yeah.”
“Get it.”
He quickly got the item, and Vaia focused, moving the bullet back down her thigh and out of the hole it had entered by.“Catch it.”
It was grabbed with forceps and dropped into the vial that glowed blue as it alerted to the curse.Vaia slumped back on the gurney and breathed.“I need to go to Danforth General.”
