And Then There Was Silence by Candace Robinson

Author:Candace Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crooked Heart Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Before Sadie left Crow Moon, she’d asked Kalina not to mention any of this to Coral. Kalina had said what occurred between her and her clients was never discussed outside of the room. She’d also given Sadie a large bag of salt to ward off spirits and a few white candles, but she wouldn’t use them.

To take up time, she spent a few hours at the coffee shop, finishing a mess of a short story and sending it in. She then wrote down more of the recent events in her notebook, the way she’d chosen the same tarot cards twice. Her theory about what was going on was blossoming into something dark after Kalina’s words continued to echo in her head, that she was marked.

The images she’d seen in the mirror could be the spirits of one of the couples who’d died in the woods, or even before that based on the clothing. River might be possessed… But could a spirit even be possessed by another spirit? There were so many missing pieces, and a lot of it wasn’t making sense. It wasn’t a standard dead spirit haunting her… It was something much bigger.

She’d been too late to save River before, but she wouldn’t be too late this time.

Sadie gathered her things, rushing out of the coffee shop and back to the woods. As she pulled to a stop in front of the cabin, her stomach sank when she looked out the window. At the trees…

She stepped out of the truck and surveyed the area around her, taking in each trunk, their location. They weren’t where they were supposed to be—it was as if they’d been taken from the ground and buried somewhere else. Yet huge trees couldn’t just be plucked from the dirt so easily. The trees had breaths within the veil at night, whispered, but this was strange, just as strange as the sleeping animals.

Along the ground, the shadows approached her, surging toward her, then away as if wanting her to follow them.

Casting another glance at the pine tree that should’ve been on the other side of the cabin, she trekked behind the shadows toward the woods. The silhouettes stopped in front of a small furry animal, and Sadie halted as her gaze fell to it. It wasn’t a sleeping rabbit any longer, but something else... Its chest was ripped open with a beating heart beside the body, blood pooling around the organ. Even though the rabbit should be still, its chest rose and fell, somehow continuing to breathe. The quiet became louder, and she looked around her, finding more animals just like the rabbit. Horror churned within her at the sight. Horror, and something familiar. Something like satisfaction…

“No,” Sadie whispered and ran back toward the cabin. She stopped just outside her home, where she couldn’t see any animals.

That morning, River had written to her in the dirt, not needing a planchette or any other supernatural device to answer her. He might not be beside her, but she knew without a doubt he lingered nearby.

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