Dad Panther by Donna McDonald

Author:Donna McDonald [McDonald, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-25T07:00:00+00:00

15

Sugar rubbed her forehead. “So you’re saying that the blades are in mourning over me forcing one of them to merge with an unwilling host?”

“I wouldn’t call it mourning. More like they’re in brooding mode over the situation,” Lake offered. “Honestly, I think they’re going to stay that way until the Creator Blade wakes up and they hear what she has to say about what’s happened.”

Sugar rose to pace. “Unbelievable. It wasn’t like I meant to violate their prime directive.”

Axel snapped his fingers. “Prime directive—that’s from that Sci-Fi show you like to quote—the rule about non-involvement. No human could follow such a rule. Surely, they know that.”

Sugar snorted as she nodded at what Axel said. “Normally, your condescension would insult me, but today you’re right. I didn’t think about anything except saving the woman’s life. Rodu offered to do the stabbing, but instinct told me I should be the one. The activation words popped into my head and I even knew how to say them.”

Rodu shrugged off her explanation. “But my first choice would have been to let her die. I remain neutral about the matter.”

Sugar stared at her hands. “That woman nearly died for trying to save the Creator Blade. It seemed fair for the Creator Blade to repay the favor. If given the same situation, I would make the same decision, but I’m not arrogant enough to think my feelings made the action right. It never dawned on me the blades would react this way to saving the woman.”

“Reva Hunter,” Lake interjected. “The woman you saved is Reva Hunter.”

Sugar turned to stare at Lake. “You know her freaking name? Even Axel hasn’t been able to find out her name, and he’s been looking since our return.”

“I was getting closer,” Axel said, crossing his arms. “They had to have wiped all her human records from existence the moment they abducted her.”

Lake shrugged. “Her name was part of the information I got when I came around. Reva led an average human life except for having almost no family. She’s a recent widow, retired, and in her early 60s.”

“Not anymore,” Rodu said, interjecting again. “Restored youth is the prize for surviving the death machine. She’s probably no more than forty now. Another two weeks and she might become twenty or thirty again. The process happens quickly the first time.”

Lake snickered at Rodu’s comments. “Why am I still in my twenties then? Shouldn’t I be like a baby or something?”

Rodu lifted a shoulder. “Gina insisted you not be regressed to a younger human. She insisted your time in the cylinder be for healing purposes only. It’s how Marta could wake you so quickly.”

“Father…”

Lake covered his mouth to hide his smile when Gina’s glare went between him and her father. Luckily, she missed Rodu winking at him. Lake stored the Rodu approval moment away before turning to look at Sugar. “My blade’s not speaking to me but I know it would have saved her too. If you’re making an accountability list, add me to it.

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