Black Sunshine (Dark Eyes 1)
How could Absolon do this to me?
You fucking idiot. He told you what he was going to do from day one.
I sigh, my breath fluttery. I need to get out of here. I can’t be in here.
How did he disappear like that?
I have some of his blood in me still, I don’t know for how long, but I can feel it, the traces of him.
If he can do that, can I do that?
But how?
I stand up and walk to the middle of the room, my heels clicking loudly on the steel floor. I stop and look around. There was a shimmer when he disappeared, like the air moved and enveloped him. Is it an invisible door?
I move my hands around in the air but feel nothing.
Think, think, think.
I know I’m running out of time.
I eye the door, the fear hitching in my throat. At any minute he’s going to come back in with Yanik in tow, and then who knows how many others. Who wouldn’t want to sample the goods before they purchase?
Think, think, think.
But I can’t think.
I can’t focus.
I’m doing that thing I did in the Uber when I was kidnapped. Too panicked to make sense of anything to make a plan. Hopeless, helpless.
But there was something you did and you can do it again.
I close my eyes and stop thinking.
I start imagining.
I see those roses, dead, and then the blood rising in them, bringing them back to bloody life.
I see the moon deep within me, reflecting on a quiet well, an unlimited source of power I need to tap in to.
I feel blue electricity running inside my veins.
I feel everything, all of it, every emotion I’ve tried to grapple with in the last two weeks. It builds and builds in the core of me, glowing white, rising through me until it feels like all my hairs are standing on end.
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I need an outlet, I need to escape, I need to survive.
I need to disappear.
Help me disappear.
A sizzling sound fills the room, a slight breeze blowing against my face.
My eyes open to see flames in the air in the shape of a doorway.
On the other side of the doorway is the rest of the room, except it’s in black and white, like an old noir movie.