

A sea of hot red that covered us both, and took my friend away, forever. The gun in his hand, pointed at me, and then. The fear takes me back: another time, another Lorder. Leaden dread pools in my veins, holds me still and numb even as everything inside is screaming run. A black van pulls in behind us, blocking us in. “Lorders,” I hiss, and scrunch down in the seat. “I’m not,” I start to object, but then I glance at the road, and all at once, I am. In my case, what lurked within was so well hidden even I didn’t know about it.Īiden parks the car along the side of the rundown building. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you’d never guess what goes on in their secret places. But what you get outside is often like that. It doesn’t look like much from the outside.
