It was strange, all the energy that coursed through her. She'd never felt anything like it before.
I'm like a little car that has suddenly been given an enormous new engine, she thought. She picked up speed and sprinted with abandon. She wondered if you could make someone love you by will alone.
No, she thought, you can't make them love you. But maybe you can remake yourself into the kind of person they can't resist.
She decided to do just that. It might take a week to win Bron over, or a month or a year.
She imagined Bron just in front of her, and herself calling, "You can run, but you can't hide."
In her imagination, Bron turned back and smiled gamely. She imagined the sweet smell of his musk in the car.
Yummy!
Justin Walton drove past Galadriel in his yellow Mustang and wondered what could cause such a beatific smile. He'd noticed her at school last week. Who wouldn't? She was the gorgeous girl who had gotten into the madrigals on her first audition.
Justin wasn't entirely sure why he was driving into Pine Valley. He was looking for Bron, and he'd heard from his dad that Bron liked to run in the morning.
But Justin could see no sign of the creep.
What would I do if I found him? he wondered. Run him over? Beat him up? Call him names?
Justin had been stewing all week, ever since he'd failed to deck Bron at lunch that day. It would be a shame if Bron got hit by a car some foggy morning, run down from behind.
He glanced into his rearview mirror, watched Galadriel's backside as she ran. She was all curves, sensual and languorous. He admired the way that her hips swayed as she ran, the way that the muscles in her rear bunched, then rolled, and stretched, almost in slow-motion.
Suddenly the car jerked to the right and he hit gravel. He veered hard to the left, flushed with embarrassment, and got all four tires back on the road.
Keep your eyes on the road, he thought. Remember, it's Bron you're after.
Epilogue
Ten thousand miles away, in Vienna Austria, Lucius Chenzhenko opened his eyes.
Around him, more than a hundred memory merchants milled in a congregation, each holding only a part of the vast store of information that made up Lucius Chenzhenko. The last two of them removed their hands from Lucius's skull.
Lucius knew that he was a clone. Experiments in Australia with human cloning had been done in secret as early as 1968, and this new body was the fruit from those experiments. Until now, Lucius had never had need of a new body. He'd always been able to extend his own life.
But Lucius was far more than just a clone—he was a poppet, too. Thus he was an exact duplicate of his previous incarnation in both genetic makeup and in memories and skills.
Adel Todesfall, the head of his security, wearing a fine young cloned body, handed Lucius a cell phone and pressed a button.
On it, a guard stood and took a shaky video of Lucius's enemy. His son. It showed a pathetic young man, secured to a chair, a piece of gray tape slapped across his mouth.
A thickly accented voice said, "This is video of Bron Jones, dream assassin...."
Future Books
In this Series:
Dream Assassin
Draghoul
Shadow Lord
For more information, visit the Nightingale website at www.nightingaleseries.com. Purchase the Enhanced Novel at: www.nightingalenovel.com
To contact the author, email David Farland at davidfarland@xmission.net or visit website at www.davidfarland.com.
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Table of Contents
With Special Thanks to:
Prologue - 16 Years Ago
Chapter 1 Into the Desert
Chapter 2 Finding the Fledgling
Chapter 3 Mother and Child
Chapter 4 Discovered
Chapter 5 Gunfire
Chapter 6 Evil Never Sleeps
Chapter 7 The Laying on of Hands
Chapter 8 The Dreamer Awakes
Chapter 9 Music Lessons
Chapter 10 A Breed Apart
Chapter 11 Lies and Accusations
Chapter 12 Learning the Hard Way
Chapter 13 The Hunt Widens
Chapter 14 Creatures of the Night
Chapter 15 Healer
Chapter 16 Numerous Plans
Chapter 17 Beautiful Creatures
Chapter 18 A Tribute to a Huntress
Chapter 19 Warning Signals
Chapter 20 In Enemy Hands
Chapter 21 Charges False and Otherwise
Chapter 22 Do Overs
Chapter 23 Betrayals
Chapter 24 Revelations
Chapter 25 Strange Relations
Chapter 26 Quicksand
Chapter 27 A Child's Tale
Chapter 28 Lord of the Bayou
Chapter 29 The Memory Merchants
Chapter 30 Elation
Chapter 31 The Legacy
Chapter 32 The Flight
Chapter 33 Dying to Meet You
Epilogue
Future Books