Chapter SixteenLORI'S SITTING ROOM
“Who would believe such a story?” Drake heard Robyn say.
In his pocket he held the secret of awesome power buried for millennia and now revealed in the form of symbols on a few crumpled sheets of paper. The demon within him sneered. The laptop's screen was blue. Drake smiled. It would be another month to December 21st and then the new heaven and earth. Countdown, the end of the world as they knew it. But now that he was gone from solid earth, would their plans materialize?
“Feck you all. I'll do it myself.” He grasped the knife in his chest and twisted but it remained firm. He howled and disappeared into the sky.
Lori wore the amulet that evening and gazed into the crystals as though they could speak. Robyn and a friend from work had gone to the Toad
