Sinkholes Nornir Chest Novels & Stories

Her heart sped up a little. "Exactly," Sofia said, removing her t-shirt. Her breasts dangled freely, and Lisa saw that her nipples were indeed dark, almost black, about the size of store-bought chocolate cookies. She also had a belly button ring, and a small scar on her left abdomen. It looked surgical.

He ended the call. He looked at me. "Gregor reports significant ground shifts in the northern section of Ashwood territory over the past two weeks," he said. "Three sinkholes. Two areas of ground subsidence that have affected the forest above the descent entry point." He paused. "The descent entry point itself is currently blocked by a collapse that happened six days ago." The room absorbed that. "The descent route is closed," I said. "Yes," he said. "The channel maintenance requires a descent route," I said.

Arkyn growled. The light from Norris’s eyes began to flicker. Arkyn attempted to move away but couldn't. He could see Norris was moving his hand unsure of what else he was trying to do. He heard something fall to the ground as Norris used his last bit of strength to try to pour the silver into Arkyn’s wound. Arkyn tried to pull his claws out of Norris' chest but because Norris’s claw was through his shoulder, he couldn't move without him letting go. He braced himself for the poison.

The address on his driver’s license is false; his dive-master identification card is a fake. Eventually, as the rescue divers search the sinkhole, explore the long caves and narrow passages looking for our bodies, they’ll recover a fin, top of the line and brand-new, matching the type I bought from a local dive shop a few weeks ago. Shortly after this they will call off the search.

The engine of the SUV ticked as it cooled, the only sound in the vast, empty silence of the northern ridge. Ophelia stood at the edge of the dirt track, her breath hitching in the thin, cold air. Below her, the North Mine looked like a jagged wound in the side of the mountain. It wasn’t the gleaming, high-tech facility of the Blue Core... it was a skeletal ruin of rusted iron and rotting timber, long abandoned by everyone except the shadows.

The failed anchor point in Aldren's eastern square is not like the buried points in Lorne. Lorne's points were pressed down — suppressed, waiting. The frequency in them was intact, just inaccessible. Opening the floor in Lorne was releasing something that wanted to be released. The failed Aldren point is not pressing upward. It is collapsing inward.

The silence in the Deep-Net sanctuary was no longer peaceful; it was a vacuum. The Norton sat in the middle of the drive like a hollowed-out shell, its sapphire glow replaced by the dull, matte gray of inactive data. I knelt beside it, my fingers tracing the cold metal of the frame. The Shadow-Wolf’s "Leech" had been surgical it hadn't just stolen the mapping; it had gutted the bike’s digital soul, leaving me with nothing but a pile of heavy, non-reactive geometry.

She did a couple of breathing exercises until her heart stopped beating very hard against her chest. Vee looked into the mirror and saw that her face was flushed. She didn't mean to react to Brian's nakedness. She had only seen a few men naked, two men to be exact, her exes. But they weren't as hot as the greek god she just saw. She had no idea he had arrived or would even be naked in his room.

Light’s flickering, tendrils of black smoke unfurled from behind him, curling around the council members closest to him. They appeared in the underground atrium a second later, interrupting the elders who were chanting a prayer in unison. “Why did you bring us here?” Ronin spit. “We need Dr. Reynolds!” “He won’t be able to help us,” Nikolai stalked over to the hecatolite pool, getting in and floating Liora just near the water’s surface. “Luna’s been poisoned with a very rare, very old toxin called kneiom.” “Knee what?!” Lucien quipped, rolling up his pant legs and getting in the pool beside Nikolai. Thaddeus and Caius followed suit, wading in the water until they stood opposite.