Twenty-four – 03

[This post is from Thom’s point of view.]

“Bullshit,” Thom spat, trying to push himself up again. Marin winced at the vehemence in his voice and shook her head.

“Kel, stay. Come on. You wanted to talk about this and Thom waking up isn’t going to change that.”

She stood in the doorway, frozen for a moment, then looked back over her shoulder at both of them. “You two have enough to worry about,” she murmured, hesitating. “I shouldn’t add to the freaking pile.”

“Add to the pile,” Thom rasped. Marin help him sit up, but pain still left spots dancing before his eyes and he felt light-headed, stomach turning over onto itself. “What’s going on?”

Kellin’s lips thinned, but she closed the door. She sagged against it even as Thom sagged against the pillows Marin shoved behind him to help prop him up. In his cradle near the foot of the bed, Lin made a quiet whimpering sound.

Thom exhaled quietly. “Kel, please.”

“I told Phelan I could feel something tugging on me,” she said, the words tumbling over each other, as if she could barely hold them in. “Told him I’d felt it for a while, something that wasn’t just the normal lines tugging at me or sensing the nodes of any of that. I said it felt like it was far away, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. He gave me this look and I—I almost can’t believe what he told me. I’m not sure I want to but in my gut I know it’s true and I have no fucking clue what it means.”

“Kel, you’re not making sense.” Marin gathered Lin up from the cradle and then came back over to the bed, leaning against its edge as she cradled the infant. “What did he say? What is it?”

“Atlantis,” she whispered. “Somehow, I’m linked to Atlantis. What I can do, what I’ve always been able to sense, it’s Atlantis, Mar. I’m linked to Atlantis somehow and I don’t know what that means or how it might be important and it scares the shit out of me.”

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One Response to Twenty-four – 03

  1. shadocat says:

    So, that’s the source of that sinking feeling….

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