11 - Invaders by Brian Lumley

Author:Brian Lumley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror, Vampires, Fiction
ISBN: 9781429913263
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2011-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

20

DARK LORDS OF STARSIDE

Korath Mindsthrall was in Jake Cutter’s mind as surely as his own thoughts, so that rather then having the story related to him, it was as if Jake lived it.

And that’s dangerous, said Harry Keogh, “awakening” Jake to his true position in the wrecked sump of the deserted Romanian Refuge. Except that wasn’t the true picture (or his true location) either, for in fact he was only there by courtesy of Harry’s mind-link. Jake’s living, sleeping, dreaming body was airborne in a jet-copter flying east, somewhere over the Australian Simpson Desert.

“Dangerous?” Jake said, hugging his knees where he sat on a slab of concrete fallen from the ceiling, watching the black waters of the sump gurgling by. “What is?”

To let a vampire—even a dead one—get that deep into your mind, Harry answered darkly. That’s what’s dangerous. And I think our friend Korath is stretching things out a bit. But:

I am telling it the way it was! (Korath’s “voice” again, protesting.) You have asked me to tell you about Malinari the Mind. How may I comply without describing his deeds, defining his wickedness?

Very well, Harry told him. That’s accepted. But I’m sure you can do it a little faster. Our time is limited here.

I shall do my best, Korath answered, grumblingly. But in any case, the rest of that night is a blur, for I had been bitten, vampirized by Malinari’s lieutenants. The scenes . . they all flow into one in the eye of my memory. Perhaps I desire to forget them, for what remains of them is … not pleasant. And the Vadastras were my people, after all.

Then he was silent for a moment or two, until in a little while he picked up the thread of his story … .

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