Of Shadows and Death by Sharlene Healy EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Sharlene Healy
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495 NE, Month 9, Day 3/30
The window rattles, and I jump, my heart racing as an eerie feeling
washes over me. “Impossible,” I mutter, tearing my gaze from the delicate
mending project in my lap. The room feels colder, as if touched by an
otherworldly presence.
It rattles again, and hate-filled red eyes pop into view, a fanged smile
grinning at me wickedly from the other side. Dread clutches my heart, and
my breath catches in my throat.
Hastily, I haphazardly toss my mother’s moss-green robe to the side in a
rush to cover the window. In three quick strides, I am there and I throw the
dark gray curtains shut. My breaths are short and full of fear, hoping the
magic holds. The sharp red eyes linger in my mind, and I try to banish the
image as the candlelight flickers across my face.
The glass shakes once more, and peals of wicked laughter fill the air.
“We’re waiting for you outside,” says a voice, full of malice. “Come down
and play.”
An icy chill runs down my back, and with a shudder, I ignore their
taunting. To join them would mean death. The glass shakes one last time,
then suddenly stops. Slowly, I draw the curtain aside, just enough to see the
creature scale down the entire seven story stone wall. He reaches the bottom
and scurries off into the cluster of trees.
Vampire.
They’ve never dared come this high. They’ve always feared Mother’s
magic. Are they testing the boundaries since she is gone?
I shiver as several pairs of red eyes blink from the trees up into my
window. Vampires are an unavoidable hazard of the forest. They’re always
hiding in the trees, the dark canopies keeping sunlight away. Even now, the
bright orange leaves hide the creatures.
My tower is safe, usually, because of Mother’s protection spell. At the
very least, it’s intact. Whether made that way or held together by Mother’s
magic, I do not know. It sits in the middle of a forest, and I know there’s a
lake nearby. I’ve never seen it, though. I’ve only left my tower once, briefly,
when I was thirteen. I didn’t even venture into the forest then, or any time
after.
It’s not too bad, my tower. It’s seven levels high, but I mostly stay on the
fourth and fifth. The bottom ones are crumbling on the inside and the stairs
have been unsafe to use for as long as I can remember. I don’t understand
why the vampires don’t attempt to infiltrate the tower from there, since no
one would stop them. Not that I could from here. The top two levels are
Mother’s, and she warned me to stay out
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