“Mia,” Daniel said.
She went quiet, and slowly pulled the duvet away from her face. “What are you doing here?”
“Well I couldn’t—”
“No, like, you’re not real! What are you doing here?”
Jac groaned on the floor and picked his head from a pillow he’d been sleeping on. “What’s going on?”
“And you! None of this is real,” she said, shoving the duvet up to her face.
Daniel pulled it back down from her face. “Mia, you know who I am, right?”
“Yes! You’re that freak! The creepy one who abducted me,” she said.
Jac jumped to his feet. “Oh, I know what this is,” he said. “It’s your blood,” he turned to see Daniel’s jaw drop, “well, I had to use it to save her.”
“Save me?” she asked, sitting up.
“Oh, she’s oblivious,” Jac smiled. “Come here, I have an idea.” He sat down on her bed, and she budged away, he rolled his eyes and prodded her hard at the centre of her forehead.
“Ow!” she frowned.
“Well, she doesn’t remember any of your
good times
, in fact, you’re the bad guy in her eyes,” Jac said.
“Leave. Now!” she batted her hands at either side of her on her bed, and the building shook. “Go!”
“What… can she?” Daniel asked.
Jac glanced from Mia to Daniel. “Looks like it.”
“We can’t leave if she’s like us now, she’ll just be dangerous,” Daniel said, trying to look into Mia’s eyes, but the look behind her eyes was cold, and unmoving.
“Fine,” Jac said, prodding Mia in the middle of her forehead again. Her head fell and rolled around on her neck. “She can sleep it out.”
“What are we going to do about her?”
“Keep her under control. That’s what we’re going to do.”
About the Author
Joseph Eastwood is from Lancaster, England, and is the eldest of five children. At the time of writing Lumen, Joseph was 17, and it has taken him just over a year to see his dream become a reality and see Lumen being self-published and read by people.
He hopes to continue self-publishing and he has the rest of this series planned out, a total of four book and two novellas will complete the Blood Luminary series. As well as that, he’s also writing a collection of short stories under the title,
Over My Spilled Blood
, as well as two other book series, the firsts of which are
Salem Gates
and
Clandestine
. So keep your eyes out for those titles.
If you’re looking to contact Joseph you can always visit his Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/josephswriting
or go to his blog:
www.josepheastwood.com
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