Brone by Kelsey Nicole Price

Author:Kelsey Nicole Price [Price, Kelsey Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Nara

Screams pierced the veil of darkness surrounding me. I blinked, trying to clear the smoke from my eyes. Smoke? Screams? Where am I?

The sounds of plasma fire made me jump before I threw myself to the ground, arms covering my head as I curled into a ball.

Remaining as small as possible, I fought my rising panic. The ground shook under me as something heavy landed beside me. I rolled, attempting to escape whatever had fallen, a whimper making its way past my lips.

“Get up,” a choked voice pleaded from somewhere above me.

I shook my head, unsure if they could see me but too afraid to move. Screams and plasma fire still echoed all around me. Some primal instinct kicked in, ordering me to remain as low to the ground as possible.

“Get up!” the voice ordered, this time with more force.

Something in my chest stirred at the familiar tone. Panic had been lapping at the edges of my mind so I hadn’t paid much attention to the speaker.

“Please, Sim.”

Brone…that was Brone’s voice. I ignored the alarms ringing inside my head as I lowered my arms from around my head and rolled back over. The face of a Tank Class filled my vision, his bright blue eyes flickering off and on as his breaths came much too fast.

“Brone?” I pushed myself up and crawled over to him, the whoosh of my frantic heartbeat in my ears drowning out any other sound. I stared at his face and somehow, I knew it wasn’t him.

But where? I had heard his voice. He must be here.

A shadow loomed and I looked up…and there he was. Brone hovered over the other Tank Class, his face a mask of pure pain.

I glanced at the other Tank Class. He was in bad shape. His eyes and the state of his breathing told me he had lost control of some of his functions. I had never worked on a Tank Class before, but I knew cyborgs. I could help.

And ignore the war that seems to be going around you? My mind taunted. One look at Brone, the desperate plea he had uttered ringing in my ears, had me reaching out towards the Tank Class, but my hand never made contact.

I was so close to him that I saw the fear in his eyes as they flickered wildly. I felt his breath on my cheek, but my fingers went right through him like he wasn’t there.

No. Something was wrong. This whole thing was wrong. I stood up, the acrid smell of smoke wafting around me. Darkness twirled around my legs, the fog pressing against my chest, heavy and bitter on my tongue.

“Brone?” He didn’t look at me. He just kept staring at the fallen Tank Class, who was gasping for breath.

The Tank Class was going to die, his systems were failing, and neither Brone nor I could stop it.

I pushed through the few inches separating Brone and I, not sure what I was doing. I simply needed to be with him at this moment.

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