Somehow I had tamed the nightmare, cast a spell over it. Stand, I’d said-in a language made of sounds I hadn’t known a human mouth could make-and miraculously it had, eyes challenging me while its body obeyed. Told it in no uncertain terms to unwrap its tongue from around my neck. It was not currently murdering us-this horror made of gathered dark and nightmares harvested from sleeping children-because I had asked it not to. Jacob Portman, boy nothing from Nowhere, Florida. It seemed rooted to the floor, swaying on its heels like a drunk or a sleepwalker, death’s head drooping, its tongues a nest of snakes I’d charmed to sleep. We were boxed in, a wall hard to one side and glass shin-deep on the other, two strides from a creature whose only natural instinct was to disassemble us-and yet it made no move to close the gap. A sea of shattered glass spread all the way to the tracks, flashing in the hysterical strobe of red emergency lights like an acre-wide disco ball. Splintered monitors swung broken-necked from the ceiling. Steam from burst pipes shrieked forth in ghostly curtains. Beyond our grim circle, the underground station looked like the aftermath of a nightclub bombing. Hollows are born lusting after the souls of peculiars, and here we were arrayed before it like a buffet: bite-sized Addison bravely standing his ground at my feet, tail at attention Emma moored against me for support, still too dazed from the impact to make more than a match flame our backs laddered against the wrecked phone booth.
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