Daughters of Forgotten Light by Grigsby Sean

Author:Grigsby, Sean [Grigsby, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Angry Robot
Amazon: B079KSFHV5
Goodreads: 38502659
Publisher: Angry Robot
Published: 2018-09-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Lena got up from the floor as the blood trickled toward her. Pao’s rang had blown off the final Amazon dweller’s head, and Lena was glad she’d gotten to teach their ass a thing or two.

Staying in their formation, the Daughters stepped over the mounds of bodies and peeked into the room the horde had come from.

The bald dweller stood by the closest wall, still holding the baby, but she also held one of the laser cutters near the child’s face. “This baby is an Amazon,” she whispered.

“Don’t do anything stupid,” Lena waved a hand behind her to tell Sarah and the rest to stay back. “Your gang will be pissed if anything happens to Rory.”

“And to die an Amazon,” the dweller continued like she hadn’t heard a word Lena had said, “is better than to live as anything else.”

Lena held her hands out, palms up. “Give her to me.”

The dweller laughed, deep, right from the gut. The laser cutter buzzed and Rory cried. With a shaky arm, the dweller sent sparks over the soft, black tufts of the baby’s hair.

“It doesn’t have to be this way,” Lena said.

The dweller stopped laughing, her face losing any emotion. “Yes, it does.” Her arm moved toward Rory’s face.

Lena yelped. Blue light sprang from her rang gun and hit the wall behind the dweller, bouncing off the glass and ripping through the dweller’s head. Lena dove. Rory fell into her arms, screaming even louder from the sudden drop. The dweller’s body landed beside Lena, who curled herself around Rory and began heaving in choking sobs. The laser cutter, still engaged, burned into Lena’s jacketed shoulder. Ava kicked it away before it could cut through the fabric.

Sarah and the others gathered around Lena. The baby quit crying, too interested now in the woman wailing and petting her tiny head. After a minute, Sterling put a hand to Lena’s shoulder.

Sitting up, Lena wiped her wet eyes with the back of her jacket sleeve. “Let’s see if we can find some of that manna juice,” Lena said. “Then we really need to go.”

They did a quick search of the room, but spare parts of glass and metal proved the only things to find. Without Lena having to say, they avoided any areas where the dwellers had been cutting meat. No juice or even any manna could be found and Lena had the sickening feeling they wouldn’t find any. It wasn’t long before they gave up and hurried back to the main room.

The caged dweller was screaming gibberish as a laser cutter was finishing a dome-shaped cut on the other side of the front door.

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