Sneak Peek - The Last Angel, Siren's Song Chapter 2.1 (Patreon)

Working on the first re-drafting of Chapter 2 and since it's Wednesday, I figured I'd share a bit more of what to expect from the next update. So far, "Lucky" Liam has been swimming through a certain river in Egypt, but incidents keep piling up and sooner or later, de Nile just isn't deep enough...

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He tried to tell himself that what was happening wasn’t happening. That it was someone messing with him and his increasing sense of paranoia. Someone looking into him – that was odd, but it wasn’t impossible. And a message that might not even existed to begin with – it was an old, old hacker’s trick to scrub something from someone else’s inbox. There was nothing magical or supernatural about those incidents, just like Emp’ta said.

So he continued as if things were indeed fine. He didn’t stir up any more trouble, as Unam would have called it. He wasn’t looking for anything on the Ghost and he started to believe that things might be okay. That he’d been getting too wrapped up in stories and rumours and every time that insistent little voice inside him reminded him about Unmistakable Threat Display and all the friends he’d lost aboard it, he found a new way to silence it. Every time he woke up from the dreams, he’d reach for pills he got from a pharmaceutical dealer. Every time part of him insisted that he couldn’t just ignore this like he’d done with everything else in his life, he told that part of him to shut the fuck up.

Then it tried to take him.