Page 139 of Visions & Shadows

Chapter 25

Alchera

The first thing I hearis the panic in Raighne’s voice.

“I fear for her, Brenna. She called to me.” Raighne holds me tightly to him. Through the haze, I can hear his heart beating fast in his chest. “She stopped breathing at one point. Something horrific must be happening in her vision.”

My arms and legs are wrapped tightly around him as if he’s the pole I was clinging to.

I’m bombarded by flashes of the vision I had. The terrible earthquakes and the chaos that followed. All those people. All the suffering and death.

My body starts to shudder from shock and tears roll down my cheeks. My heart is heavy with despair, and I’m swamped with a rollercoaster of emotions.

I choke on the cries that finally make their way out of me.

“Alchera?” Raighne grabs my tear-streaked face and holds it up to his.

The moment our eyes lock, I feel him explode inside of me, his warmth rushing through my mind.

My fingers curl into his shirt as his eyes darken with sadness, and he presses me back against his chest while he eases the aftermath of horror frommy mind.

“Shhh, all will be well. You’re safe. I’m here,” he murmurs softly while focusing on taking the devastating emotions from me. “I’m so sorry you had to experience that.”

My body slumps against his, and I suck in desperate breaths of air while the horror slowly lessens in my mind.

“It was dreadful,” I whimper. “They’re all going to die. Millions. I could feel their terror and how their hearts stopped beating.”

“I wish you didn’t have to see it,” he says, his love finally breaking through the darkness in my mind.

I let out a relieved sigh. All I want to do is to hide in his arms from the hell that’s about to break loose on this planet.

“We’re here,” Finian says, just as the plane shudders when it touches down on the runway.

“Here?” I ask as I pull away from Raighne.

“Ireland,” Brenna reminds me.

There are so many images flashing through my mind, most of them pictures of disaster and pain. I remember getting Jason, and then…

When I’m finally able to focus on the present, I’m filled with an urgent need to get to my chosen ones.

“Sarah. Doug,” I say, desperation coating my words. “We have to get to them as soon as possible.”

Raighne walks to the door and helps me out of the plane as Jason says, “We landed without permission, so we’re going to have to make a run for it.”

Like a bunch of criminals, we run across the tarmac and past a hanger. The place seems to be deserted, and when we reach a road, we stop to catch our breaths.

“What now?” Jason asks.

I glance at him. “Your phone. Can you get us a cab?”

“Good thinking,” he mutters.

He signs into an app, and after he arranges for a car to pick us up, I find a spot on the grass at the side of the road where I can sit down.

“How are you feeling?” Brenna asks as she crouches beside me.

“Better. Raighne took most of the emotions.”

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