Children of Zanar 1: The Zanari Inheritance by Niall Teasdale

Author:Niall Teasdale
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Niall Teasdale
Published: 2017-03-10T17:00:00+00:00

Part Three: A Sister in Need

Monteagle’s Prize, Hyperspace, 60/1/483 BCC.

Kaya opened her eyes and saw nothing. She was blind. She was… Her confused mind began to take in the input from her senses and she came to an alternative conclusion, though it was on minimal information.

She was seeing nothing but black, because she was fixed into some sort of helmet with no visor. She could hear nothing but a soft, broadband hiss: white noise was being played into her ears through headphones. Her nose was covered and there was a thick gag in her mouth, but she could breathe fine, except that the helmet seemed to be fixed tightly around her throat which made things a little more difficult. There were cuffs fixed around her wrists and, from the way they pulled when she lifted her arms, the cuffs were attached to her collar by a moderately short leash. And, again from the feel of it, someone had stripped her down to her underwear, and she was lying on a mattress which had all the give of a plank.

Someone had put her in sensory-deprivation restraints. She had only ever seen the things in old vids, not that there had been many new vids on Sadrine’s Drift. She remembered seeing them used to control some evil, mind-controlling psi in a spy thriller which had seemed about as realistic as most such vids. She had to admit that it would be effective: if she could not sense anyone around her, then she could not use any of her abilities on them. And if she had actually had a psi ability which was capable of doing anything very useful, the restraints might have had a purpose. Maybe whoever had her did not know the extent of her powers. Maybe…

A thought, a memory, tickled at the edge of her consciousness: where was Jay? Jay had been with her on the roof, watching the mercenary base. Then… Then what? What had happened? How had she ended up here, wherever here was, and where was Jay? She slapped down the thought that he had been killed as fast as it came up. There was no way she would have forgotten that and she refused to believe it. Whoever had captured her had not killed her, so why would they kill Jay? No, he was alive, had to be, and he would come for her. Or Thea and Jinny would come for them both.

With nothing to do but lie there in the dark, Kaya focused on imagining her white knight riding in to rescue her, and not on his body lying dead on a rooftop.

~~~

DEAD.

The word flashed through her mind in bold, white capitals. What?

‘Can you hear me, Kaya?’

Jay? Jay! Yes, she could hear him, but she could say nothing back given there was a gag in her mouth.

‘If you can hear me, Kaya… I guess you can’t do much about it.’ Jay’s voice was distant; he sounded weird, like he was a long way off and drifting in and out.

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