Dominion by Connolly John & Ridyard Jennifer

Author:Connolly, John & Ridyard, Jennifer [Connolly, John & Ridyard, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Suspense
ISBN: 9781476757209
Goodreads: 27221900
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Published: 2016-02-25T08:00:00+00:00

TOO LATE

CHAPTER 39

Lerras wasn’t quite the fool that Reutan took him for. He might have been a sadist, but the Security Directorate was no place for idiots, and Lerras was gifted with both cunning and a well-developed survival instinct. It was why he had remained close to Reutan, although Reutan was a nasty piece of work, even by the low standards of the Securitats. Reutan’s survival instincts were almost as finely honed as Lerras’s own.

Before Lerras tried to get to Yallee, he took a detour to the sterilization units and pulled out a handful of respirators. He put one over his own face and tossed another to Selec, who was already on his knees. He scattered the rest in the direction of the guards who were still conscious, but his priority was to get through the door and beat that sweet-faced little Yallee into oblivion. There would be time for questions later, or maybe not.

Lerras told Selec to blast the door, and that was exactly what Selec did.

• • •

Alis had learned a lot during her brief time with Meia. Meia had already been near legendary among the handful of surviving Mechs, even before her experiences on Earth, and she had proven willing to share her knowledge and experience with the younger model.

She had also shared some of her upgrades.

There was a loud bang, and the door was blown across the coms room, demolishing the hub of screens. Selec stood framed in the empty doorway, his pulser raised, Lerras to his right. Neither of them had made any effort to protect themselves from fire from within, because Yallee had been unarmed when she entered the facility, and had been given no opportunity to seize a weapon since then.

Thus it was a surprise to Selec when he experienced a painful blow to his chest, but the surprise only lasted for the seconds that it took him to die. Lerras heard the shot and ducked out of the doorway, but not before taking a hit to his left shoulder that spun him round and sent him sprawling to the floor. He raised his pulser to fire but the coms room was dark, and he could see no signs of movement. He sent a series of random pulses into the room, causing sparks to fly from what remained of the hub, but was just a fraction too slow in reacting to the flare of light that came in response. He felt a searing pain in his right elbow, and when he looked for the source he saw a smoking stump where the rest of his arm used to be. Beyond it lay his forearm and hand, one finger still gripping the trigger of the pulser.

Lerras’s agony was so great that he didn’t even see the remaining guards fall under Alis’s withering fire, or notice that the doors to the holding cells had opened. Neither did he see Alis toss respirators to the human prisoners, battered but upright, who then made their way back to their ship while Alis restored the oxygen supply.

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