"Suzanne Nikolaisen - Sand Shadow" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nikolaisen Suzanne)

the dark

shadows that were veiling the recesses of the kitchen. The thing started
shrieking.

Michael's heart was pounding hard and he was fighting the urge to run. The
thing had

begun hissing loudly like an evil minion voicing its unearthly rage.

Sweat trickled down his forehead. What was going on? Nuclear war?
Was that

the source of the weird light and the terrible screaming? He found the source
of the

shrieking, an instant later, on the gas stove, the teapot was issuing out a
hot jet of

steam. The water was boiling and ready. Relief poured over him, it was only
the

teapot, what had he expected? Nuclear war, he reminded himself, but what had

caused the light?

A quick glance at the window was all he needed to confirm that the
strange

shimmering had stopped while he had been distracted with the teapot. The
window

showed the sparkling skyline of Cairo once more, the sky was filled with the
greedy,

purple tentacles of dusk that were devouring the pale sunset. The coming
darkness

held a menace, as thunderheads before a storm.

Michael stared out the window, he felt numb. What was happening to
him? He

looked out over Cairo, it looked the same as always. Tall, beige skyscrapers,
stood

intermixed with domed mosques and pinnacles creating a magical skyline. The
Nile

was flowing smoothly around Gezira Island to his west, and twilight glowed