SurfAngel_1031

  Walking away from the window, Archaios Enas stopped in front of a body-length mirror that Elle had screwed into one of the walls of her inium. She looked beyond the sunken look appearing in her shell's eyes and focused long enough for her white-ghost mist to bee visible. Chest length unruly and silver tainted, Archaios Enas’s hair flowed as though in a wind around the shadewraith. Having gained a touodesty for her female form, Archaios Enas made her mist around her body in long strips of web-like tendrils that covered and caressed the shadewraith. Heart-shaped and inviting, she’d used her pink-rose lips and their allure to tantalize and take over bodies at will. While her mouth provided the only real color Archaios Enas possessed, it was her bck shadowed diamond eyes that she’d heard the most about. ‘So pretty…Heavewinkling bright stars..’ were all things she’d heard during her existence.

  -Yes…yes…All of the others that sacrificed themselves to my being, my feeding..my needs. Turned me into this…-

  Archaios Enas disappeared baside Elle’s shell and csped her hands together.

  -I almost escaped ohe neantic tear was brief and pulled weak-minded shadewraiths that fathomed themselves as dogs.-

  Growling hatefully, Archaios Enas frowned as she headed for the door.

  -Fet the pathetieancer. My small army will round up the nightstalkers ahem iernal sunlight. Get the book, and ehe portal stays open permaly.-

  Archaios Enas huffed and grabbed a light jacket, sliding her arms into the fleece.

  -Harsh Expanse indeed. You will meet the others' fate. Time to gather a few others and show these blood-worms who is really in trol.-

  Making her way to the FBI vehicle assigo Elle, Archaios Enas started the engine and turhe little ptop that stayed in a metal g attached to the sole. Ohe mae owered up, she typed the name ‘Casey Rivers’ and a small list of associations came up.

  -What do we have here? Jennifer Rivers, the worm’s mother.-

  Tapping and sliding on the small touchpad, Archaios Enas clicked the hyperlink for Jennifer’s profile, and smiled when Jennifer’s address was typed across the s with a matg picture. Archaios Enas closed her hate-filled diamond eyes and focused oomach for a few seds. Initially white, a little wispy ball the size of a small rock pulled itself free and hovered in Archaios Enas’s palm until the white faded and it turned bck as night.

  {“Wele back, my faithful. You have returned as I promised those years ago. You have a mission.”}

  Smiling and pointing to the little picture, Archaios Enas tossed the little ball into the air where it expanded and became a fully formed shadewraith.

  {“e the one called Jennifer Rivers. I wish to expose her daughter and you…get to feed.”}

  The new shadewraith ughed and produced its mouthful of fangs in an eerie smile.

  {“Jennifer will suffer immensely, Archaios Enas. What shall I do with the shell? It looked beyond the windshield and a single smoky finger poio a tall building. I see the shell taking a little flight..watg its bones break and skin tear, dumping its innards all over the ground…”}

  Archaios Enas sat ba the seat and rubbed her in quiet ption, then raised one eyebrow as a maniacal look appeared on her face.

  {“I will permit you to sptter the shell in time. I have a need for this particur primate, it is the mother of one I am seeking.”}

  Archaios Enas tapped otle pad a few more times and brought up Casey’s list again.

  -Martin Shores, Vivienne Moreau, Faye Moreau, Jessica Saunders, Amber Lane, Veronica Brown, Sylvie Miakoda, Kody Hensley, Linda Reynolds-Deceased, Brian Ashburn-Deceased-

  Taking the time to go over every profile listed, Archaios Enas nodded briefly and looked up at the shadewraith that had spread out on the roof of the car.

  {“There are no photos giving us a look at the one called Vivienne. I suspect that a few of these are nightstalkers. There is a small legion of your brethren pulling others through the portal. Take a few and hunt down every name here.”}

  Archaios Enas tapped on the s and highlighted Casey’s name.

  {“Leave this oo me. My shell believed that this lovely creature was somehow involved in a deeper plot that was covered up by…”}

  The White-wraith paused and cackled briefly.

  {“Tatum Bckwell. Find this one as well. It would appear that the spider has a very big web, my faithful.”}

  Swirling like a tiny tornado, the shadewraith circled Archaios Enas a couple of times then added its owched ugh to hers.

  {“Yes, Archaios Enas. This one’s mother and all associates. Chaos ahe other faithful will e these flesh-worms, I will bring my shell to you.”}

  ing itself around Archaios Enas as though it was giving its leader a loving hug, the Shadewraith waited in pce a sed before disappearing through the car roof, leaving a small puddle of bck slime behind.

  Finally starting the engine, Archaios Enas looked up at the brightening sky as she drove toward ial Heights.

  -The blood-worms will be c in the dark soon. Which means Casey’s nightstalker prote will be missing. Glorious. All I need from my faithful is where she is, Jennifer will provide that before she is ed.-