Ascension by Sydney Reames

Author:Sydney Reames [Reames, Sydney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Loch Publishers LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

When we hit the bottom of the stairs, I caught my cousin scowling back at me. This wasn’t going as he’d anticipated. Good. It would be better for us if I could keep him on his toes. One blessing of being on an enemy’s ship, or any of the Crew ships, really, was that they were more spacious on the inside than any large ship I’d heard of back on Earth. The corridors allowed Silas and me to walk side by side. His crimson markings kept an even glow in the hallway, the colors mixing on the wall with Bayard’s sapphire blue.

It was only when Bayard showed us into his quarters that I broke my stoic exterior and gasped. The office wasn’t like the haphazard lodgings that I’d seen on Hale’s ship. It was a near-replica of the delegate offices from the Hub. He’d styled it similar to Warrick’s, with a large desk in the center and shelving on the walls, lined with books and objects whose uses and sentimentality I could only guess at.

“How long have you had this ship?” I couldn’t help asking.

His eyes were dulled and the skin around them scarred red from Dagan puffer poison, but they still flashed a short blue gleam as he responded.

“How long has the resistance been around? How long were Societals denied the right to go back to Lone? Some span of years in between those two, I’d say.”

The cold, calculated Societal in front of me made me wonder how I ever mistook Bayard for anything but a villain.

“I respected you. I looked up to you,” I admitted. I looked at him, and then to Juliard.

It was nothing they didn’t already know. If it weren’t for Fell, and my friends, I’d have been convinced that I only gave my heart and my trust to all the wrong people.

Bayard just scoffed.

“Now then, the journal. Hand it over, unless you’d like to tell me what you’re doing with the crystals, or show me how to use projection to control people. Your choice.”

I pulled the book from my satchel and handed it over, trying to keep the pain of losing it off my face.

Bayard grabbed at it greedily, clutching the book as he made his way to his desk. He scanned the symbols on the front, Lone writing.

“Yes, yes, there’s the map.” He’d recognized the map of Lone embossed on the book immediately. “But what of the crystals?”

He flipped open the cover and began to read, his eyes scanning the page with speed and flipping to the next. It should have been enough to convince him the tome was readable.

He waved a hand at the door of his quarters without glancing up.

“Block the doors.”

From the hall, two Spear, a Kite whose wings couldn’t quite expand to their full shimmering width in the space, and a Dagan armed with puffer darts, stood in front of the door. They parted to let Kaiser enter the room. He stood with a gun slung in front of him.

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