Candlesight
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Michael Liddy. Candlesight
Prologue
Chapter 1. Demise
Chapter 2. Concealment
Chapter 3. Suspicions
Chapter 4. Meeting
Chapter 5. Concentration
Chapter 6. Introduction
Chapter 7. Reflection
Chapter 8. Convergence
Chapter 9. Dreams
Chapter 10. Respite
Chapter 11. Convergence
Chapter 12. Menace
Chapter 13. Return
Chapter 14. Wolves
Chapter 15. Complicit
Chapter 16. Precipice
Chapter 17. Abyss
Chapter 18. Pursuit
Chapter 19. Convergence
Chapter 20. Masks Removed
Chapter 21. Violent Reprise
Chapter 22. Trails
Chapter 23. Endgame
Chapter 24. Return
Отрывок из книги
Kensington, Melbourne, June 1974.
Jared could never quite understand why Sarah was so frightened. As he looked through the small grubby window towards the factory on the other side of the street, it didn’t fill him with any anxiousness at all. The dark, deeply shadowed three storey shoe factory was striking, yes, but not angry or malevolent. It wasn’t waiting to leap out and eat them as his sister was convinced it would.
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Shakily Jared rolled forward onto his knees and with jagged motions approached the pier again. Half expecting something to launch at him he kept his eyes on the opening he’d fashioned. Nothing came for him though. The soft dance continued on the metal roof, and whatever it was stayed deep down within the brick chute.
Steeling his nerves, Jared took the last step to the pier and uneasily raised himself towards the jagged opening he’d just fashioned. Still there was no rush of motion. If the thing, whatever it was, had wanted to escape or come for him it had had ample opportunity. Plus he couldn’t see how it could be possibly be aggressive or dangerous; it was light. Excitement swept up through him, the edges of a childish emotion that had been absent most of his short life.
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