Posts Tagged “messenger”
The Messenger: Destination
The thought distantly occurred to Phelps that he had not technically completed the baptism ceremony. He hadn’t had the time to speak his line — so do I - before the command hit him. North, said the voice, and north he went. When the crowds thickened, his run slowed to a very fast walk, dodging between pedestrians and cutting through alleys.
The Messenger: Instructions
"You knew I was coming," Phelps finally said.
The Messenger: Introductions
St. Luke's Temple was not what Phelps had in mind. It took him two hours to make the 20-minute walk through New Sidon; two hours of feeble excuses rehearsed over and over, none of which could overcome the weight of the apparition outside the transport window. He had paced back and forth over the same three blocks, bumping constantly into traders and pilots, and eliciting curses in a dozen languages. With his training, he could have understood them all, had he been less distracted.
The Messenger
"This is impossible," Phelps mumbled inaudibly, pressing himself against the wall opposite the window.