Dark Convergence by Dave Gross

Author:Dave Gross [Gross, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Fantasía
ISBN: 9781939480989
Publisher: Skull Island Expeditions
Published: 2013-05-21T22:00:00+00:00

Aurora

Nemo’s eyes widened as Aurora raised her polynomial staff to signal the release of the prisoners. His weathered hand relaxed its grip on his own weapon as he saw them begin to walk away from her soldiers.

In the relaxing sinews of his fingers, Aurora saw that Nemo had been poised to channel every last ounce of his power into a storm of retribution had she ordered the prisoners to be executed rather than freed. She never intended to commit such an atrocity, but she had to admit to herself that she had staged the release in a deliberately provocative manner. Thinking of the scorched ruins of her troops, she decided she had gone as far as she dared in her effort to keep her adversary off balance.

She had managed to anger, soothe, intrigue, and frighten him in a far shorter period than she had hoped possible, although she regretted her graceless argument of “religious protection.” She never thought he would accept it at face value, but she had underestimated his impatience with the give-and-take of diplomacy.

It was time to alter her tactics, at least for a short period. Nemo seemed intrigued by the little she had revealed about the Convergence, but she had hoped for a stronger reaction. There was much more she could safely tell him.

It was time, however, to let him ask before she revealed more. Until he resumed control of their conversation, Aurora decided, she would draw out the parlay. Every minute she gained was another minute closer to the success of her mission.

“I like your Storm Striders,” she said. “The mechanikal elements are a trifle crude, perhaps, but for raw power I have seldom seen its like. Is this another of your contributions to the Cygnar arsenal?”

Nemo’s attention remained on the line of women and children moving across the field. Small children held their mothers’ hands or clung to their skirts as they picked their way across the trampled ground.

Soon they reached the area where Nemo’s arcane storms had torn her troops and vectors to scrap metal and churned the dirt beneath them. A small boy stumbled over the lip of a crater left by a Cipher’s shell. He fell, slid, and clambered back to his feet with a brief smile before his mother called him back to her side and gripped his hand tight. The other women picked up the smallest children and carried them across the furrows in the earth as they approached the battle engines.

Aurora saw Sebastian Nemo’s gaze meet Margaret Jernigan’s. The burly mechanik winced and offered an apologetic grimace as she looked up at the general. In the exchange, Aurora perceived something different from the relationship between a commander and a subordinate.

That was promising.

Nemo cupped his hand and called down to her. “Tell Blackburn to send a rider with the package.”

While Nemo watched the captives walk toward the Cygnar camp, Aurora inspected his assistant.

Noticing she was under review, Caitlin Finch raised the goggles to her forehead and stared back. Her nostrils flared in defiance, but she spoiled the effect by blowing away an errant lock of sandy blonde hair.

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