Rakshasa Book I, Part #4: Shadowfall (5 page)

Asena held up her phone. The maps app was open, plotting a route back to Canberra.

By walking.

“Are you fucking mental?”

“Nope. We run,” she said, “between the railroad and the highway. There’s almost no cars there, and plenty of dips and valleys for us to hide in. If we time it right, there’s a pretty good chance we won’t be seen by anyone. Pretty good.”

I stared dumbly at her. “
That’s
your master plan? Run faster than a car?”

“Yep.”

I felt like I was going insane. Every second we spent here talking nonsense was another second that Ishan was in danger, but some part of me made me ask. “How?”

“I’m… not entirely sure,” said Asena, “I’ve only ever done this once.”

“Okay,” I said, “tell me how.”

“I… can’t. The main thing is to run, and… not to think about it. Think about where you’re going, not where you are, and your body should do the rest. Should.”

I felt ridiculous, but I nodded. “Right, okay. Got it. Think of where I’m going. Anything else?”

Asena shook her head. “Nope. That’s all I got. It was explained to me like this… you’ve spent so long running as a human, so that way is all you know. But now you have to unlearn how you do it, like you’ve never run before, and move like
we
do.”

Run without trying to run. It made no sense at all, but I had to try.

“Okay,” I said, “let’s do it.”

Together we turned to the west, to the afternoon sun, and we began to run.

To be concluded in Rakshasa: Eternity…

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