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.CarolinePage 30 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlstalked in on her long legs as if she didn t want her feet to touch Stefan s floorboards.Oddly, though, shewas carrying her high heels. I came back in to get my sunglasses, she said, still in that trembling voice. And I heard enough toknow now what my so-called friends think of me. No, you didn t, Meredith said, as rapidly eloquent as Bonnie was stunned mute. You heard somevery angry people letting off steam after you d just insulted them. Besides, Bonnie said, suddenly able to speak again, admit it, Caroline youhoped you d hearsomething.That s why you took off your shoes.You were right behind the door, listening, weren t you? Stefan shut his eyes. This is my fault.I should have No, you shouldn t, Meredith said to him, and to Caroline she added, And if you can tell me one wordwe said that isn t true, or was exaggerated except maybe for what Bonnie said, and Bonnie is& justbeing Bonnie.Anyway, if you can point to one word of what the rest of us said that isn t true,I ll beg yourpardon. Caroline wasn t listening.Caroline was twitching.She had a facial tic, and her lovely face wasconvulsed, dark red, with fury. Oh, you regoing to beg my pardon all right, she said, wheeling to point her long-nailed forefinger ateach of them. You reall going to be sorry.And if you try that that witchcraft-vampire type thing on meagain, she said to Stefan, I have friends real friends who d like to know about it. Caroline, just this afternoon you signed a contract Oh, who gives a damn? Stefan stood up.It was dark now inside the small room with its dusty window, and Stefan s shadowwas thrown before him by the bedside lamp.Bonnie looked at it and then poked Meredith, as the hairstingled on her arms and neck.The shadow was surprisingly dark and surprisingly tall.Caroline s shadowwas weak, transparent, and short an imitation shadow beside Stefan s very real one.The thunderstorm feeling was back.Bonnie was shaking now; trying not to, but unable to stop theshivering that had come on as if she had been thrown into icy water.It was a cold that had gotten directlyinto her bones and was ripping layer after layer of heat off them like some greedy giant, and now she wasbeginning to shakehard &.Something was happening to Caroline in the darkness something was coming from her or comingforher or maybe both.In any case, it was all around her now, and all around Bonnie, too, and the tensionwas so thick that Bonnie felt choked, her heart pounding.Beside her, Meredith practical, level-headedMeredith stirred uneasily. What ? Meredith began in a whisper.Suddenly, as if it had all been exquisitely choreographed by the things in the dark the door to Stefan sroom slammed shut& the lamp, an ordinary electric one, went off& the ancient rolled-up shutter over thewindow came rattling down, dropping the room into sudden and complete darkness.Page 31 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlAnd Caroline screamed.It was an awful sound raw, as if it had been stripped like meat fromCaroline s backbone and yanked out of her throat.Bonnie screamed, too.She couldn t help it, although her scream sounded too faint and too breathless,like an echo, not the coloratura job that Caroline had done.Thank God that at least Caroline wasn tscreaming any longer.Bonnie was able to stop the new scream building in her own throat, even thoughher shaking was worse than ever.Meredith had an arm around her tightly, but then, as the darkness andthe silence went on and Bonnie s shaking only continued, Meredith got up and heartlessly passed her toMatt, who seemed astonished and embarrassed, but tried awkwardly to hold her. It s not as dark once your eyes get used to it, he said.His voice was creaky, as if he needed a drink ofwater.But it was the best thing that he could have said, because of all things in the world to fear, Bonniewas most afraid of the dark.There werethings in it, things that only she saw.She managed, despite theterrible shaking, to stand with his support and then she gasped, and heard Matt gasp, too.Elena was glowing.Not only that, but the glow extended out behind her and far to either side of her in apair of what were beautifully defined, and undeniablythere & wings. She h-has wings, Bonnie whispered, the stutter caused by her shaking rather than by awe or fear.Mattwas clinging toher now, like a child; he obviously couldn t answer.The wings moved with Elena s breathing.She was sitting on thin air, steady now, one hand held out withher fingers all spread in a gesture of denial.Elena spoke.It wasn t any language that Bonnie had heard before; she doubted it was any languagepeople on Earth used.The words were sharp, thin-edged, like the splintering of myriad shards of crystalthat had fallen from somewhere very high and very far away.The shape of the wordsalmost made sense in Bonnie s head as her own psychic abilities were sparkedby Elena s tremendous Power.It was a Power that stood tall against the darkness and now wassweeping it aside& making the things in the dark scamper away before it, their claws scritching in alldirections.Ice-sharp words followed them all the way, dismissive now&.And Elena& Elena was as heartbreakingly beautiful as when she d been a vampire, and seemed almostas pale as one.But Caroline was shouting, too.She was using powerful words of Black Magic, and to Bonnie it was asif the shadows of all sorts of dark and horrible things were coming from her mouth: lizards and snakesand many-legged spiders.It was a duel, a face-off of magic.Only how had Caroline learned so much dark magic? She wasn teven a witch by lineage, like Bonnie.Outside Stefan s room, surrounding it, was a strange sound, almost like a helicopter.Whipwhipwhipwhipwhip& It terrified Bonnie.But she had to do something.She was Celtic by heritage and psychic because she couldn t avoid it, andshe had to help Elena.Slowly, as if making her way against gale-force winds, Bonnie stumbled to put herhand on Elena s hand, to offer Elena her power.When Elena clasped hands with her, Bonnie realized that Meredith was on her other side.The lightPage 32 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.CarolinePage 30 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlstalked in on her long legs as if she didn t want her feet to touch Stefan s floorboards.Oddly, though, shewas carrying her high heels. I came back in to get my sunglasses, she said, still in that trembling voice. And I heard enough toknow now what my so-called friends think of me. No, you didn t, Meredith said, as rapidly eloquent as Bonnie was stunned mute. You heard somevery angry people letting off steam after you d just insulted them. Besides, Bonnie said, suddenly able to speak again, admit it, Caroline youhoped you d hearsomething.That s why you took off your shoes.You were right behind the door, listening, weren t you? Stefan shut his eyes. This is my fault.I should have No, you shouldn t, Meredith said to him, and to Caroline she added, And if you can tell me one wordwe said that isn t true, or was exaggerated except maybe for what Bonnie said, and Bonnie is& justbeing Bonnie.Anyway, if you can point to one word of what the rest of us said that isn t true,I ll beg yourpardon. Caroline wasn t listening.Caroline was twitching.She had a facial tic, and her lovely face wasconvulsed, dark red, with fury. Oh, you regoing to beg my pardon all right, she said, wheeling to point her long-nailed forefinger ateach of them. You reall going to be sorry.And if you try that that witchcraft-vampire type thing on meagain, she said to Stefan, I have friends real friends who d like to know about it. Caroline, just this afternoon you signed a contract Oh, who gives a damn? Stefan stood up.It was dark now inside the small room with its dusty window, and Stefan s shadowwas thrown before him by the bedside lamp.Bonnie looked at it and then poked Meredith, as the hairstingled on her arms and neck.The shadow was surprisingly dark and surprisingly tall.Caroline s shadowwas weak, transparent, and short an imitation shadow beside Stefan s very real one.The thunderstorm feeling was back.Bonnie was shaking now; trying not to, but unable to stop theshivering that had come on as if she had been thrown into icy water.It was a cold that had gotten directlyinto her bones and was ripping layer after layer of heat off them like some greedy giant, and now she wasbeginning to shakehard &.Something was happening to Caroline in the darkness something was coming from her or comingforher or maybe both.In any case, it was all around her now, and all around Bonnie, too, and the tensionwas so thick that Bonnie felt choked, her heart pounding.Beside her, Meredith practical, level-headedMeredith stirred uneasily. What ? Meredith began in a whisper.Suddenly, as if it had all been exquisitely choreographed by the things in the dark the door to Stefan sroom slammed shut& the lamp, an ordinary electric one, went off& the ancient rolled-up shutter over thewindow came rattling down, dropping the room into sudden and complete darkness.Page 31 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlAnd Caroline screamed.It was an awful sound raw, as if it had been stripped like meat fromCaroline s backbone and yanked out of her throat.Bonnie screamed, too.She couldn t help it, although her scream sounded too faint and too breathless,like an echo, not the coloratura job that Caroline had done.Thank God that at least Caroline wasn tscreaming any longer.Bonnie was able to stop the new scream building in her own throat, even thoughher shaking was worse than ever.Meredith had an arm around her tightly, but then, as the darkness andthe silence went on and Bonnie s shaking only continued, Meredith got up and heartlessly passed her toMatt, who seemed astonished and embarrassed, but tried awkwardly to hold her. It s not as dark once your eyes get used to it, he said.His voice was creaky, as if he needed a drink ofwater.But it was the best thing that he could have said, because of all things in the world to fear, Bonniewas most afraid of the dark.There werethings in it, things that only she saw.She managed, despite theterrible shaking, to stand with his support and then she gasped, and heard Matt gasp, too.Elena was glowing.Not only that, but the glow extended out behind her and far to either side of her in apair of what were beautifully defined, and undeniablythere & wings. She h-has wings, Bonnie whispered, the stutter caused by her shaking rather than by awe or fear.Mattwas clinging toher now, like a child; he obviously couldn t answer.The wings moved with Elena s breathing.She was sitting on thin air, steady now, one hand held out withher fingers all spread in a gesture of denial.Elena spoke.It wasn t any language that Bonnie had heard before; she doubted it was any languagepeople on Earth used.The words were sharp, thin-edged, like the splintering of myriad shards of crystalthat had fallen from somewhere very high and very far away.The shape of the wordsalmost made sense in Bonnie s head as her own psychic abilities were sparkedby Elena s tremendous Power.It was a Power that stood tall against the darkness and now wassweeping it aside& making the things in the dark scamper away before it, their claws scritching in alldirections.Ice-sharp words followed them all the way, dismissive now&.And Elena& Elena was as heartbreakingly beautiful as when she d been a vampire, and seemed almostas pale as one.But Caroline was shouting, too.She was using powerful words of Black Magic, and to Bonnie it was asif the shadows of all sorts of dark and horrible things were coming from her mouth: lizards and snakesand many-legged spiders.It was a duel, a face-off of magic.Only how had Caroline learned so much dark magic? She wasn teven a witch by lineage, like Bonnie.Outside Stefan s room, surrounding it, was a strange sound, almost like a helicopter.Whipwhipwhipwhipwhip& It terrified Bonnie.But she had to do something.She was Celtic by heritage and psychic because she couldn t avoid it, andshe had to help Elena.Slowly, as if making her way against gale-force winds, Bonnie stumbled to put herhand on Elena s hand, to offer Elena her power.When Elena clasped hands with her, Bonnie realized that Meredith was on her other side.The lightPage 32 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]