Every Other Day
“Closer. You’re getting closer. This way, Kali. This way.
If the hunt-lust had been a hum under my skin before, it was a full-blown song now: sweet, melodic, unearthly.
I wanted to hunt. The thing inside me wanted to feed. No room in my mind for anything else, I wove in and out of the shadows, my inner compass set toward something that reeked of sulfur—something sleek and quiet, something wrong.
Normally, I scanned the papers for reports on preternatural activity. I liked going in knowing what b...rand of beastie I’d be fighting, but at the moment, I didn’t care what the instinct was driving me toward.
All I cared about was making it dead.
The trail ended a mile, maybe two, away from Bethany’s house, at a water park that was closed and abandoned for the winter. Getting in was easy enough, and soon, I was prowling the length of the park, surrounded by bright colors, mammoth slides, and empty, waterless pools.
On the horizon, across a sprawling parking lot, I could see the outline of a Ferris wheel—the fair coming to call and pick up the seasonal slack, while Water World stood empty, save for the shadows, the slides, and me.MoreLess
If the hunt-lust had been a hum under my skin before, it was a full-blown song now: sweet, melodic, unearthly.
I wanted to hunt. The thing inside me wanted to feed. No room in my mind for anything else, I wove in and out of the shadows, my inner compass set toward something that reeked of sulfur—something sleek and quiet, something wrong.
Normally, I scanned the papers for reports on preternatural activity. I liked going in knowing what b...rand of beastie I’d be fighting, but at the moment, I didn’t care what the instinct was driving me toward.
All I cared about was making it dead.
The trail ended a mile, maybe two, away from Bethany’s house, at a water park that was closed and abandoned for the winter. Getting in was easy enough, and soon, I was prowling the length of the park, surrounded by bright colors, mammoth slides, and empty, waterless pools.
On the horizon, across a sprawling parking lot, I could see the outline of a Ferris wheel—the fair coming to call and pick up the seasonal slack, while Water World stood empty, save for the shadows, the slides, and me.MoreLess
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