Braided Silk by Ella Drake

Author:Ella Drake
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 2012-01-05T17:54:26+00:00

Chapter Five

Langley stopped fighting. The blow to the head had done something. He couldn’t chance another knock.

They didn’t take him far. There must’ve been detaining rooms in the security area.

Rough hands shoved him into a cold hard chair with his hands secured in front of him on his lap. The scuffle of boots marched out the door, and one of the guards spoke, probably into a communication device. “We have him, sir. His eyes…” And the door shut.

Yes, his eyes. Whether or not he’d regain vision he had no idea, and it scared him.

Shivering, he sat for long minutes. Either it was cold in here, or that knock to the head had done some serious damage. NOMBIO might be pleased if the mod failed, and he had it removed, to be human again, sans eyes. But Zel wouldn’t want him this way. As a created, perfect woman, she couldn’t want a flawed human such as himself.

“You can’t see a thing, can you?” A guard scoffed in his ear.

Langley jerked away, nearly toppling out of the slick chair. He’d thought he was alone, not with someone watching him in a moment of weakness. Straightening, he willed the useless moping away.

“I’m looking for Bovine.” Langley resisted the urge to straighten his shirt. He’d spent the night, not sleeping, in a stairwell in these clothes.

“He’ll be here.”

In the long moments waiting, he kept his chin up and refused to shiver though the cold had an all-encompassing grip on him.

The door opened, loud in the quiet room. A large, calloused hand gripped his face with a painful pinch and turned him side to side. Handcuffed, blind, the room spinning, he sat there and allowed this stranger to manhandle him. Served him right for letting Mère take his eyes and what they’d both done to Zel.

“Hold still,” commanded the newcomer. “Don’t twitch, talk, or think loudly.” Langley froze while the pounding in his head ratcheted up to deafening levels. A puff of heat blew across his face and a click sounded near his ear.

“Your optical nerve is still intact. Here, this should help.” A buzzing filled his head and abruptly stopped. “Try to avoid a hard blow to your head, for at least a few months, or your optic nerve might reject the implants. Not that I care if a kidnapper ever sees again. You’re lucky I could interpret the code and fix you.”

“You did something to me?” Helpless, cold, and stuck in this place, he understood exactly what Zel had gone through. His body was not under his control now and might never be again.

“I reduced swelling and rebooted those eyes of yours. Interesting tech you have there.” A sharp suspicion lay beneath the statement, but Langley didn’t care about Mère’s bio-tech at the moment. He wanted to see Zel and explain.

“Do you see any light?” The question didn’t come in a friendly manner, rather more begrudging than he’d expect from a doctor.

“A little.” The relief of the unrelenting darkness abating loosened his fists pressed against the cuffs.

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