Darkspace Calamity (Relic Knights Book 1) by Christopher Bodan

Author:Christopher Bodan [Bodan, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Future House Publishing
Published: 2018-03-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Marianne, unknown point, real space

Malya tapped her foot on the floorboards. She stopped with some effort when she noticed, but that nearly drove her back to pacing. She settled for tapping her foot. Finally she shot a glance at Harker, sitting quietly at his table with stylus in hand, and groaned. He did not look up.

“How can you just sit there? What’s taking Cross so long? Why did he want us to drop into real space anyway? I’m sure the drives could use the charge, but we were fine, weren’t we? Aren’t we on a schedule?” She threw her hands up at his calm silence. “How can you just sit there?”

“Patience,” he said, raising his left hand. He made a few quicker notes and then sat back, turning his chair to look at her. “I don’t know what the lord paladin requires, but he’s aware of our urgency. If he felt it important enough to interrupt the journey, then I believe him. We’ll just have to wait and see.”

She eyed him balefully. “You’re awfully calm for someone rushing to save the world.”

He raised one eyebrow. “You’re awfully anxious for someone who doesn’t quite believe she should be here.”

She stuck her tongue out at him. “Oh, ha, ha. You’re just lucky I decided to tag along.”

“I am,” he replied, serious, and turned back to the table.

Malya sighed and tried to think of something else to say—she had stopped nervously tapping as they talked—but the door chime interrupted her.

“Enter,” Harker called.

Sebastian Cross strode into Harker’s cabin, and Malya found her nervousness evaporating in favor of good old-fashioned worry. The paladin had a worn, tight look to his features. He carried a small device in his hand, and the Paragon Jeanne trailed behind. She looked almost as upset as Cross. A few steps behind them came Rin, Betty, and Lug.

“Forgive me, Captain,” Cross said as Harker stood and frowned at the procession. “This matter concerns her high—” He cleared his throat. “Excuse me, the princess and her companions, so I took the liberty of bringing them along.”

Harker nodded and motioned for Cross to continue.

The paladin stepped to the table and set the device on a clear spot. “This portable projector contains all the current encryption keys for Alliance Security and the Peers’ highest priority messages. We received this message on our slip-comms less than an hour ago, but I could only share it with you on this device.” He glanced at Malya, whose heart chilled with the look. “And it’s the sort of thing that needs to be delivered in person.”

Harker dimmed the lights as the projector flickered into life. The face of a woman with bobbed pink hair and bright eyes formed before them. She had laugh lines around her mouth and eyes, but her face remained serious as she spoke.

“This message is to all Alliance Security and affiliated agencies. I have received credible intelligence of an omega code event, repeat omega code event. At least one noh dragon fleet has

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