Uhhhh. What?
Swallowing roughly, I edged a little more around the door, trying to catalogue everything. “Baby girl?” I whispered. “Where the hel—” I cleared my throat. “Heckdid you take Mommy?”
A flash of light about fifty yards away, and suddenly there was a …thing.
I mean, what in all the trickery of tricks was that creature? It flew through the air, looking half camel and half lion, huge Pegasus wings flapping lazily as it circled around a spot it hadn't been seconds before.
Stepping back inside, I quietly shut the door, definitely not wanting to draw the attention of anything in this world.
This was bad. Super fucking bad.
My baby had brought me off-world, and I had a sneaking suspicion she couldn’t bring me back. She’d taken me about as far from Cronus as I could get, but in doing so might have bitten off more than her little powers could handle.
She squirmed in my belly and I patted it, locking the front door. “It’s okay. We’re fine. Everything’s fine.”
Lock the windows and doors, and look for weapons, I told myself. If one of those flying camels came my way, I was going to get stabby.
Chapter 13
Ten minutes later, I had basically walked a groove into the floor, pacing back and forth, trying to figure out what to do.Another world.I was on another world with flying chimera looking beasts and a desert that the two bottles of water I had would not get me through.
Most importantly, no Cronus in sight.
#Fine #ThisWasAllFine
“I've been in another world before,” I said out loud. “I've been in the damn underworld. I can freaking figure out how to get out of this place.”
I wondered then if maybe the snow land I'd been in before had been another world too and I just didn't realize. Maybe that was why Cronus couldn't track me. Was baby transporting me to multiple worlds while keeping us in the cabin? Was that possible? My brain felt like it was going to explode at the endless questions and no answers.
If the baby was trying to keep Zeus from finding me, then she must have headed for the one place that we couldn’t be tracked. But in doing so prevented the Titans from tracking us too. Brilliant plan, if Mommy had powers of her own and a single clue what we were dealing with here.
In some ways, this land reminded me of the lower levels of the underworld, so desolate and barren, but instinct told me it wasn’t the underworld. Thanatos would know if I was here by now.
When I was done freaking out and it was too damn hot to pace any longer, I decided to more thoroughly explore the cabin. Yesterday, when I'd arrived, it looked larger from the outside than this one room, so maybe there was a door I'd missed that led to another space. If there were weapons or more food, now would be a great time to find a secret room with a prepper cache.
It took me what felt like two hours—I had no way to tell time here—to find a secret door. It was behind wood paneling that I had to edge my nail under to pry open. Whoever owned this cabin did not want anyone to find this room, and I had high hopes for what would be inside.
It was dark, but my eyes adjusted fast, much faster than they would have before there was a Titan baby on board. As I took my first tentative step inside, light flared around me randomly, and I would have wondered how that happened, except I was too busy gasping at the contents of this room.
#Hell #Yes
A vehicle, looking nothing like anything I'd ever seen … between a golf cart and an ATV, with huge tires and a solid-looking roll cage. Moving closer, I opened the door and slid inside, placing both hands on the steering wheel.
Nothing on this dash looked familiar, but there was one button that was larger and more prominent than the others, and taking a breath, I slammed my hand against it. The buggy roared to life, and I could have squealed at how excited I was.
Pushing the button again, because it was the only visible one, the engine shut off just as quickly and I sighed in relief. Worst case, I could use this to escape.
The rest of the room took me a few minutes to explore. I found some more crackers and peanut butter. I was starting to get the sneakiest suspicion that this cabin might be from Earth, even if the rest of the world it was on was very far from it.
I mean, what was the baby up to? I'm sure it was confusing trying to do magic from inside a womb and being, you know, not fully developed…
A hard kick had me chuckling.
“You're amazing and smart, my little one,” I told her.
My eyes skimmed the far wall and landed on a shotgun. “Thank God.” I sighed in relief. Movies taught me how to use a gun. You just split it in half, shove the bullets inside, cock it, then shoot.
#EasyPeasy #IWasGoingToShootMyLegOff
