Blade by Cari Silverwood

Author:Cari Silverwood [Silverwood, Cari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Fiana waited until the door had fully closed. Ledderik crossed his arms and also waited. The drag of attraction he’d felt since entering this room increased, but it was a blip compared to what Thorn could generate and he could resist that.

Thorn’s mother...

With no experience of mothers or even closely knowing someone who had one, for at least a century, he was adrift. Theoretically mothers were a good thing.

The sudden tension around her eyes told him she was about to speak. “What are you, Ledderik?” Fiana leaned her palms onto the desk behind her.

“I am...” He had to actually process this. “Previously a cyborg, now residing in a loaner body, which is a...dalk.”

Her smile was straight.

“You don’t believe me?”

“I know you are something extraordinary. I’ve been pulling you to me and you don’t seem to notice? What is different?”

Ahah. He was correct about the pull he’d felt. Her statement intrigued him, and what had he to lose by being frank?

“From the average humanoid? I’m three hundred years old. I was not gifted with a cock when created, so this.” He indicated his crotch. “Is new. However, I have always desired women, watched my lord fuck them. I’ve wanted to perhaps torture a few.”

“Perhaps?” She shook her head as if puzzled. “You’re a battle-designated cyborg?”

“Assassin also. My trade has changed over the centuries.”

“Nothing in that is unusual.”

He rummaged in his past. “My brain is no longer organic. Degeneration was setting in after two centuries and my persona was migrated, slowly, to a synthbrain. It took years and I was in stasis for that time. My previous master, Lord Zarblu, is a stoneshifter and patient.”

“That.” She pointed at him. “Is possibly the cause. You are the first with a synthbrain I’ve encountered. Thank you. I will add that to our database. However this is not why I asked you to stay and listen to me.

“The newscast from BART implied you defended Thorn from harm at least twice.”

They were news? “Yes, I did.”

Fiana went to a different table and unlocked a thin drawer. From it she extracted a flat, steel-colored box. “Inside are the two doses of the drug I spoke of – agruth. It’s unique in that it is a living organism. Taken from a flower, yes, but it is an entity of itself. If Thorn begins to go into a deep siren state, a ruthless one where she is endangered, give her a dose.

“I pray she reaches the geneticist in time.”

“Over the centuries, I’ve found that praying is nowhere near as helpful as a gun in your hand and a knowledge as to the nearest exits.” He took the box and pocketed it. “What if I use a partial dose?”

“I have no information on that. It would kill the entity in the capsule if you break it. Soon, that remaining dose would be useless.”

So splitting it up was a bad idea.

“Okay.” Led nodded.

“You’re going to hit another peak, soon, very soon. I am giving you this in the expectation that you will protect her.

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