Darkwar by Glen Cook

Author:Glen Cook
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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VI

The darkship began to glow. Round it those-who-dwell scattered. They seemed suddenly two-dimensional, bright paper cutouts imbued with panic, flickering toward silent stars. Only the silth’s driver creatures remained, stretching and rolling, straining as they dragged the darkship.

Kerath glanced upward. A chill seized her. That dark dust-cloud thing hovered overhead, obscuring different constellations.

The darkships became a pair of fiery daggers hurtling toward nowhere. The universe twisted and folded and opened its evil belly and gave birth to a horde of silently screaming horrors. They had gone into the Up-and-Over. Kerath screamed back. They weren’t supposed to do this.

Normal space exploded around her. She caught a half-second glimpse of a human warship, long and lean and deadly, its riders already running free. Dreamkeeper had been spotted!

Cold blackness enveloped her. She could not see her sisters on the darkship. She felt their fear, felt the Mistress waver. The stench of death stung her nostrils. Something that felt like the damp at the bottom of a grave crawled over her protective shielding. In her mind she heard the first of a thousand death cries…

Twist. Fold. The Up-and-Over. A distinct feeling of hard deceleration, a twinge of fear. Something was wrong with the Mistress. The darkship was out of control. Dreamkeeper was swelling ahead, docking bay ablaze with light. “Too fast!” Kerath cried. “Slow down!” Her ears folded forward. She sank to all fours, sure she was about to die.

What a waste, to end it all here. Dreamkeeper would be crippled, and the Meth could no longer manage major repairs. She had failed, and would not live to see the final consequences.

She was right and she was wrong. The darkship continued its deceleration, lowering its daggertip slowly. In a flicker the warship swelled, rose… they were going to make it! They were going to slide beneath it.

The shock of an earthquake hit her. The titanium girderwork ripped, tore, screamed in the silence of the big chill. Kerath clung to the metal. The stars twirled. And then they went out.

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