Brink's End Book Three by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Odette C. Bell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Mattias

He was in the mech. He’d just found his way into George. It had cost Mattias everything.

He’d had to practically scream on every psychic frequency.

It wasn’t that George didn’t trust him. It was that something seemed to be interfering with the mechs.

But Mattias had no time for that. He could only save Kathleen.

He couldn’t think of anything else, was suddenly unaware of any other possibility.

It was like someone had carved out every other thing from his head. Because if he didn’t save Kathleen… if he didn’t save Kathleen, he could never make it right.

If he didn’t save Kathleen, then the only other Guardian would die, and he’d be alone at the helm of the freaking multiverse. If he didn’t save Kathleen….

Any psychic knows that there’s a point where you must stop fleshing stories out. You simply end up rehashing the same material over and over again. Sure, it strengthens it, but it doesn’t bring anything new. It entrenches you in your existing possibilities without allowing you to find out more.

He didn’t know why he had to save Kathleen. He just had to do it.

Psychics did not make good mech pilots. The Guardians had tried it in the early days. It had not worked. He’d never been considered for a piloting position, and he would never have wanted one.

You wouldn’t think this, but Mattias didn’t like small spaces. They reminded him too much of his old apartment. His old office, too. Not that you could call it that. It’d been a cubicle. There’d always been enough room for him to be seated and for one of his victims to be standing.

He got a cold sweat now as he remembered it. But he only recalled it for a split second as he threw himself into the command seat and shoved his hands down into George’s control units.

Mattias didn’t begin to understand the information that flashed onto the left side of the screen. He didn’t even think he needed to. Though that statement was hubris. Because any good Guardian knows that you have to understand your situation to have any chance of controlling it. But again Mattias only needed to do one thing. Get to Kathleen.

Kathleen wanted to kill him… possibly. Maybe she’d never wanted to kill him. Maybe if their lives had been different and she’d encountered him as a resistance fighter back on their world, she might have done what she’d already done back in that wheat field. She might’ve fought him to the end only to recede at the last moment.

Kathleen thought she was a killer.

She wasn’t. She was something far, far more complex.

“Fire everything you’ve got. Do something,” Mattias begged.

His arms were in the control modules, his hands around the small holographic orbs, but it didn’t seem to matter. He couldn’t integrate properly with George. It was like trying to tie his mind into something so much bigger than himself, and psychics can’t do that. That’s the equivalent of psychic death.

If there was one thing that working for the Bureau had taught him, it was how to block his psyche off from other psychic minds.

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