Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 33
I watched it disappear among the trees. The silence in the clearing was perfect. I didn't even breath. Then Magdalene gasped and I turned. She was trying to stand. I reached to help her, but she batted my hand away. "Are you fucking insane! You...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 32
I came to with a start and looked around. We were all tied to trees with vines, and everyone else was struggling to break out, so I hadn't been out for long. On the tree next to me Colby pulled out of the vines holding him, only to be wrapped by...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 31
"She's about two miles in," Magdalene said, walking back to us. "How do you know that?" Martin asked. "The forest told me." "You talked to the forest?" Fred asked. "Was it a spell? Can I see how you did it?" "Ahh, no." She...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 30
"Since we aren't doing anything else," Marcus said. "Do you mind if we continue the conversation about the Factions?" "Sure," I replied. "Ask away." We'd been on the road for ten minutes, heading toward Chatfield. Martin had checked the directions...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 29
"You found something for me to use?" I asked the lions. Frank pulled a white bundle from his pocket and handed it to me. I unrolled it, and in it were eight scraps from what I guessed had been a bed sheet. "All from him?" I asked. "I... don't...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 28
Zee slammed the car door shoot and stormed up the road. "Hun, please calm down," Marcus called after him. "No. I am done waiting for him to come to his senses." Marcus grabbed his arm, forcing him to stop. "Zee, think about what...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 27
"You've been silent," Magdalene said. I glanced at her in the passenger seat. She looked relaxed. "I just don't like that we both ended up at the same place when we're working different cases." She nodded. "The name got you there." "And...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 26
Zikabar ran his ID by the sensor as he entered the building. The part of him that drove him to excel at everything he did was nagging him that he should have remained at the scene to supervise. Telling himself that Johanson had everything in hand...
Toeing the Line, Draft 1, CH 25
I saw the lights a block away, and my gut told me they were at Milton's house. I slowed and had to come to a stop a good hundred yard because of all the cars parked in the street. There was two ambulances, four police cars, and easily twice that in...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 07
The noises as Damian got off the bus were deafening. The silence was one of the rare thing he missed from his time being incorporeal. His ability to go anywhere he had an agent and interact with the world through them was another. The insanity,...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 06
I let out the breath and knocked. "Si?" the response came, muffled by the door. I turned the handle with a shaking hand. Seeing her on the hospital bed, eyes going from quizzical to fearful, was nothing like when I'd walked into her room...
Protecting the Line, Draft 1, CH 05
"Shouldn't we go home and sleep?" Marcus asked as they entered the elevator? "You barely slept during the flight back." Zikabar looked at his husband, vibrating with excitement. "How can you think of sleep at a time like this?" "Because I...