Aeonian: Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Five

I hadn’t noticed for a moment that Martha had returned from treatment and was standing at my side; I was too involved in the book. I glanced up with a start when I seemed to feel a shadow rest on me. She had made no noise in coming to my side.

I jumped, already primed to be chary from all that morning’s odd happenings, and Martha smile…