Seirs, Soul Guardians Book 5 by Kim Richardson Page B

girls
passed them, but David kept his eyes carefully on Kara.
    Kara shook her head gently.
“I don’t know  something to do with what Lilith did to those poor mortals. I
think it’s a weapon.”
    David frowned. “A weapon?”
    “ Yes. I saw something in
her hands back at the castle. An object, like a small blue
pyramid.”
    Another couple with white hair and
walking sticks stared and pointed their bony fingers at her as she
passed them by.
    Kara frowned and lowered her voice.
“David, am I hallucinating, or are the mortals staring at
me?”
    “ Oh. My. God.” Jenny
stopped dead in her tracks and pointed to the buildings across the
street.
    A ten-foot long billboard like a giant
movie screen was mounted on the roof and Kara’s enormous face
looked back down at her. Then screens from neighboring buildings
flashed more pictures of Kara’s face. The buildings’ façades were
wallpapered with pictures of Kara.
    “ Kara? What the—” David
leaned forward, a confused expression painted his face. Frowning,
he stared at the images for a moment, and then glanced back at Kara
questioningly. “Did you see this? You’re huge!” cried
David.
    “ Great, thanks.” Kara
looked over her shoulder.
    Mortals eyed her suspiciously from
everywhere. Fingers pointed. Whispers of her name reached her ears.
She lowered her head and tried to hide her face behind her bangs.
Quietly, she stepped behind David. With her eyes glued on the
billboard, she strained to hear any sudden noises or to see any
unusual movement in the crowd. She had to be ready for
anything.
    Kara froze. She stared at the giant
version of herself staring back. It was the weirdest thing, and it
freaked her out. Then writing appeared suddenly on one of the
plasma screens.
     
    FBI’S MOST
WANTED.
    Young Caucasian woman is
wanted on suspicion of bioterrorism.
    Involved in a prior
terrorist attack and the death of a French police officer last
year, this young woman is linked to the use of infectious agents on
the human population.
    The Center of Disease
Control has issued a global outbreak warning.
    If you have seen this
woman, please contact your local authorities.
     
    Kara swore.
    The screens flickered and Kara’s face
disappeared. An online news feed appeared. A woman with short red
hair and a string of pearls wrapped around her neck looked out into
the camera. She folded her hands on the desk before her and set her
face in a stern expression. Everyone on the sidewalk stood still
and listened
    “ Good evening,” her voice
echoed on all the screens. “We interrupt your local program at this
time to bring you this special bulletin. The Center of Disease
Control has issued a global warning about a new virus which has
infected two hundred cities across the globe.”
    Kara heard a woman gasp behind her.
What was going on?
    “ The virus,” continued the
newscaster, “is infectious and affects the brain. Once people are
infected, they become extremely aggressive and lose all sense of
reality. Mothers are killing their own children and children are
killing their own parents.”
    The newscaster’s image disappeared and
was replaced with a selection of video images of mortals killing
one another in the streets. Cities burned. Mortals lay dying. Angry
wails thundered out of the screens and echoed through the streets.
The infected threw themselves at each other like wild beasts, their
eyes rolling in the back of their heads.
    Kara averted her eyes. It was
happening a lot faster than she had hoped. Lilith was on a rampage.
At this rate, the entire humane race would be infected in a few
days.
    “ The Center of Disease
Control has compared it to the animal rabies virus,” Kara heard the
newscaster say and she raised her head to the screen. “It has an
aggressive killing nature. The center tells us that there is no
anti-virus yet.”
    The newscaster swallowed and fumbled
with sheets of paper on her desk before continuing. “The Center of
Disease Control is unclear