Allie's War Episodes 1-4(167)

Then he opened...and his light nearly flattened me.
I felt him hold his breath as he wound it deeper into mine...and then I couldn’t breathe...I breathed too much. I clutched at him as he leaned into me more, and I felt him asking me, willing me to open, asking me again. I held him tighter, unable to see as his hands clenched my back. His light slid deeper, pulling on me...I think I made some kind of sound.
Then everything seemed to happen fast.
We were kissing when someone’s arms grabbed me from behind.
Revik’s hands were under my shirt and around me as someone or several someone’s dragged him off. Yet another person held my waist, pulling me away from him.
I glanced behind me, barely recognized Maygar.
“What the hell are you doing?” He was staring up at Revik, his eyes and voice furious. “Are you trying to kill her?”
I felt Revik react to Maygar’s hands on me.
I saw pain on his face, confusion as he looked at me, almost like he didn’t know where he was. My own pain worsened as I stared back, and suddenly I couldn’t bear being held away from him. I had to fight not to shove all of them off me, just so I could touch him.
“It’s okay,” I said, holding up a hand. “Revik, hey. It’s okay...”
Then my light, everything about me that was me, was ripped away from my body.



“No!” Cass dropped her gun, running for Allie as she collapsed in Maygar’s arms. Revik got there before she did. Maygar tried to shove him back, but the taller seer grabbed the front of Maygar’s shirt in his fist, and suddenly a gun was in his hand. He pressed it to Maygar’s face.
“Let go of her,” Revik said. “I’ll do it. I promise you.”
Maygar released her, removing his hands. His voice shook.
“If she dies, so help me, I’ll skin you—”
“Stop it!” Cass snapped. “Both of you!”#p#分页标题#e#
“What happened?” Jon crouched over Revik, but it was Maygar who answered in a snarl.
“Rook-boy couldn’t keep his hands to himself! He just fed her to them...”
Cass watched Revik pull Allie into his lap. He stroked the long hair away from her face, caressing her cheek with his hand. His voice shocked her. It was quiet, but a near anguish trembled on the surface as he spoke.
“Allie...gods. Can you hear me? Allie!”
“Hit her!” Maygar snarled. “Do you think that’s going to do anything but make it worse? Hit her, or let me try!”
But Revik’s hands had gone still.
Maygar shoved Cass out of the way, grabbing Revik’s shoulders. When he turned the other seer around, looking him full in the face, he cursed, releasing him. Bending down, he slid his arms around Allie, pulling her roughly out of Revik’s lap. Cass watched in disbelief as Revik made no move to stop him. She was still staring at Revik’s unmoving form when a loud crack of flesh against flesh jerked her eyes back to Maygar.
She watched in disbelief as he backhanded Allie again. A red mark flared on her friend’s cheek, but Allie’s eyes didn’t flutter as her neck rolled with the blow. Maygar wound up to hit her again when Jon held his own gun to Maygar’s head.
“Do it again, and I’ll shoot you, you piece of shit...” Without turning, Jon aimed his next words at Cass. “What’s wrong with Revik?”
“I don’t know.” She gripped his arm, kneeling beside him. His pupils remained pinpricks, his face a wax doll’s. “He’s just...gone.”
Maygar pushed the barrel of Jon’s gun out of his face angrily, as if it were a pointed stick.
“He’s gone after her,” he snapped.
Jon looked at Cass, then back at Maygar. He lowered the gun.
“Explain to me how that’s not a good thing,” Jon said.
“Stupid worm! The construct is gone! They’re all around us...everywhere, as we speak! Staying out of the Barrier was their only protection!” When Cass and Jon continued to stare at him blankly, Maygar raised his voice. “They’re going to die! She was already dead when he pulled her in...now he’s gone to die with her!”
Seeing the anger and frustration on the seer’s face, it occurred to Cass that maybe he wasn’t the bad guy in all of this, after all.
A jet slammed by the window, rattling the glass. The roar of its engines followed, deafening in the narrow corridor between houses. Looking across the street, Cass saw the tiny figures of men in black kevlar climbing the building across from theirs, and a kind of despair reached her.
There was no possible way they could get out of this, not anymore.



Near to Earth, the faint lines of the physical can be seen from the Barrier like a lit room through water. A swarm of beings hover over three ghosting human forms. The Rooks know a third seer exists there, too, but they cannot see him as long as he remains outside the Barrier.