Dark Legion (The Lockman Chronicles Book 2) by Rob Cornell

Author:Rob Cornell [Cornell, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Paradox Publications
Published: 2011-08-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Three

“THE QUESTION IS, are there more of them?”

Lockman, Marty, and Teresa stood in Teresa’s make-shift headquarters. They had cleared off a section of the desk and spread out the rudimentary map of the factory they had drawn on a large sheet of newsprint.

Marty turned to Lockman. “Why is that the question?”

“Even if we can infiltrate this factory, get the ogres out safely, and blow the place to kingdom come…” He tapped the map with his forefinger. “…if there are more factories like this one, they will quadruple security on them after our attack and we’ll never take them out.”

A low growl came from the back of Marty’s throat.

“That’s assuming they have more,” Teresa said.

“Can we afford to assume there isn’t?”

Marty glared at the map. “No.”

“Who knows how large the vamp operation is down here? Apparently they have nests all over New Orleans. Fifty in the one I saw. Then the seventy-or so working out of that factory. If they’re swelling their numbers with turns, we could easily be looking at four- or five-hundred vamps. Maybe more.”

Teresa swooned. She staggered to an office chair and dropped into it.

“You okay?” Lockman asked.

She shook her head. “My sister’s one of them.”

Lockman wanted to tell her they couldn’t know that for sure. Technically they couldn’t, not until they saw her in the flesh. But the reality was hard to ignore, and he didn’t want to lie to her. “We can still find her.”

“Then what? There’s no cure for vampirism.”

No one wanted to say what they would have to do if they did find Mandy. The hum of the computer’s fan and Marty’s heavy breathing filled the moment of silence.

Marty turned away from the map and folded his arms. “So what do we do?”

“Much as I’d like to charge in there and wipe out every fucking vamp involved, we need to know more about what we’re up against.”

“What about this king,” Teresa said. “We find him, we can find out all we need to know.”

“Assuming we can motivate him to talk.”

Marty grunted. “Oh, we’ll motivate him. Don’t worry about that.”

Lockman let Marty have his bravado. He’d damn well earned it. Lockman couldn’t imagine the rage the ogre felt knowing how the vamps were using his people. “It’s not the worst plan. But finding him is the trick. As revered as he seems to be, he’s going to be well hidden and well protected.”

“Plenty of vamps at the factory. Or the community center. We could snatch one or two of them to get the king’s location.”

Teresa tipped her chair back. “We can’t go back to the community center. They’ll expect us there. And we don’t want to spoil the factory until we’re ready to take it down.”

“What about the pimp?” Lockman asked.

“LaRue?”

“Yeah. The one you led me to with your obviously planted clue.” He pointed at the leather bound notebook beside her computer.

Teresa glanced at the notebook and shrunk back in her seat. “It was Marty’s idea.”

Marty straightened. “Oh, bullshit.”

Teresa cracked a smile. Marty started to laugh.

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