Despot in Space by Donald S. Rowland

Author:Donald S. Rowland [Rowland, Donald S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Venture Press
Published: 2017-03-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Condor was thankful that his reflexes were so sharp. As he hit the floor of the corridor he saw the Humics preparing to use their ray-weapons, and he felt a tiny prayer travelling through his mind as he operated the weapon he had taken from the Cranum. The air seemed to tingle as a beam of light flashed from his hand and lanced through the corridor. It touched the Humic on the right, sending it down instantly, and he moved his hand slightly, aiming for the one remaining. He saw the Humic’s weapon flicker, and two of the male Nethers fell in a writhing heap. Condor aimed his ray and loosed a spurt of lightning energy. Before the Humic started to fall he was swinging around and thrusting himself to his feet.

The female Nether was scrambling up, and she held out the door activator, pressing forward against the end of the corridor. Condor glanced back. The three surviving male Nethers were coming towards them, their faces showing uneasiness but no fear, and the two who had been hit by the Humic’s ray were now motionless and dead.

Condor sensed that disaster was about to overtake them. The alarm had been raised, and he was aware of the great number of Humics that could be summoned against them. He waited tensely for the door activator to operate, fearing that it wouldn’t, but presently an oval door swished upwards, and Condor took a deep breath as sunlight flooded in through the doorway.

He took a deep breath and pushed past the woman, wanting to emerge first in case trouble was waiting for them, and the three male Nethers pounced upon him, knocking him to the floor in their haste to get away. Before Condor could regain his feet the trio were disappearing through the doorway and running madly across the open ground before them.

The woman was about to follow, but Condor yelled at her to wait, and the sound of his voice halted her. She looked at him, and there was enquiry showing on her large face. He pushed by her and peered outside, narrowing his eyes against the brilliant glare of the two suns overhead.

He saw the three Nethers running easily towards the nearest rocks some two hundred yards distant, and even as he spotted their fast moving figures a beam of light slashed at them from somewhere to their right. Condor tightened his lips when he saw them falling, and he glanced back along the corridor, afraid that reinforcements for the Humics were on the way. When he saw that the corridor was still empty he took hold of the woman’s hand and led her outside stealthily.

He found they were standing against a rock wall that formed part of an outcrop of tremendous size, and as the oval door closed behind them he flattened his back against the wall and looked around for the trouble that had struck at the three fleeing Nethers. He soon spotted two Humics moving ponderously towards them, and pointed them out to the girl.

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