Ghost Roads
Prologue
The ghost roads.
A place of madness.
A limbo, a vacuum of nothingness: no sound, not even Buffy's gasps of shock, no
light, just a dull gray that formed no boundary, met no horizon. No heat, no
cold. Simply ... nothing.
Oz and Angel had tried to prepare her for the terror of the experience, but
Buffy Summers, the Chosen One, knew now that there was no way to prepare. By
instinct and by training, vampire slayers fought against - against a target,
an enemy. While every cell in her body screamed at her to defend herself, there
was no enemy to focus on. And yet she sensed overwhelming danger.
Fists clenched, she took a breath and calmed herself. She released the tension
from her body, dangling her arms at her sides. As contrary as it was to
everything she knew, the only way to conquer this place was to do nothing. The
only defense was passivity. She had to find a way to accept the lack of form
and structure, the storm-colored, endless gray, and know that it was ... what
it was.
It was the ghost roads.
As soon as Buffy had the t ... read full excerpt from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: GateKeeper #2: Ghost Roads ebook
