(eng) M. R. Forbes - Justice of The Covenant 01 by Triple Blind

Author:Triple Blind [Blind, Triple]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“What happened up here?” Hayley asked, still surprised by the Plixian’s attack.

“They tried pulling their guns on us again,” Tibor said.

Hayley noticed now that Lo’xan’s thorax was nearly severed, ripped almost in half by a pair of large claws.

“We have the answers we were looking for,” Quark said. “Some of them, anyway. There are no Shardkeepers here. Only Nephilim. Could be they were lying about the Quasar, too.”

“I’m afraid not,” Violent said. “Your ship crashed on the planet.”

“How do you know that?” Quark asked.

“We have access to Planetary Control. We saw the ship enter the area. It was fired upon immediately. It crash landed out on the Western Flats.”

“Survivors?” Quark said, as hopeful as Hayley had been.

“I don’t know,” Violent replied.

“Still better than the earlier news. Who’s ‘we?’”

“The Resistance. The Nephilim came four years ago. They killed and bought their way into power. Killed, mostly. At first, nobody realized the shift had occurred. The government was the same. The services were the same. Nothing had changed. Until they started taking from the population, individuals that were never seen again. Until ships began to arrive that didn’t look like any ships we had seen before. Until the monsters came.” She pointed angrily at Tibor. “He’s one of them.”

“He was,” Hayley said. “He’s with us now.”

“They can’t be trusted.”

“This one can.”

“How do you know?”

“The same way I know I can trust you.”

Violent eyed Tibor, still angry. “We have to go. I have a racer. Follow me.”

“Round two?” Quark said, smiling.

He shifted the Plixian gun in his grip. It was made for two long fingers and a thick thumb, not a human hand. He had found a way to make it work.

Violent checked her display. The Nephilim convoy was right on top of it, the soldiers pouring out. White was already gone, inside the Pit somewhere.

“Where’s the feed located?” Quark asked.

“The main entrance to the Pit. If you listen, you can hear the primary lift.”

Hayley paused. She could hear the soft rumble, and when she put her hand on the rock beside her, she could feel the vibration.

“How long do we have?” Quark said.

“A few minutes,” Violent replied. “There’s only one wrinkle.”

“What’s that?”

“The feed is coming from the front of my car.”

Quark laughed, putting his arm around the woman’s slight shoulders. “Darlin’, if that’s all you’re worried about, you can relax. We do this sort of shit all the time, don’t we, Witchy?”

Hayley couldn’t help but smile, even in the face of the threat. It was good to see Quark get some of his fight back with the news the Quasar had crashed instead of being left as no more than space junk.

Even so, there were no guarantees. The ship could be a smoldering, slagged wreck. It was good to have hope, but they both needed to keep it in check.

“How well do you know these tunnels?” Quark asked.

“I’ve lived here my entire life,” Violent replied.

“You lead, we follow. Anything tries to kill us; we’ll kill them first.”

Violent nodded, and then started running south along the scaffolding.

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