Dragon City by James Axler

Author:James Axler [Axler, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction Suspense
ISBN: 9780373638741
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Enlil watched Domi through the glass that divided them, a cruel sneer on his reptilian lips, his crocodile’s eyes sinister, a single vertical slit down the center of each mustard-yellow iris.

“Let us out of here!” Domi shouted at the glass.

Utterly inhuman, Enlil was a truly beautiful creature, imposing but with such an economy and grace to his movements that he seemed almost like something from a dream, something impossible to behold. At his full height, Enlil stood seven feet tall, a crest of spines curving back from the crown of his skull with a metallic glint, like wires of burnished steel. He wore simple clothing—loose, darkly colored breeches that flared at the hips and ended just past his knees, and a bloodred cloak that was cinched at his shoulders with a golden clasp, glowing like sunset despite the lack of light in the room where he stood. Beneath the golden clasp, Enlil remained bare-chested, his lizardlike hide a coppery-rust, the color of bronze washed with blood. The tiny scales there looked like a pattern of metal that had been sewn into his flesh. He stared directly into Domi’s crimson eyes, meeting her gaze with his own. “Cerberus,” he stated, the word coming like a curse in his eerie, duotonal voice.

“Let us out of here, you sick, sick bastard,” Domi snarled, the knife flashing in her hand.

Domi had met Enlil before now, on several occasions, in fact. Oft considered the cruelest of Tiamat’s brood, Enlil had been a near-constant thorn in the side of the Cerberus exiles. Initially, Enlil had plagued Kane, Grant, Domi, Lakesh and Brigid Baptiste in his guise as Baron Cobalt, the hybrid ruler of Cobaltville. In subsequent years, Cobalt had assumed other forms, C. W. Thrush and Sam the Imperator among them. Indeed, under the latter form, Enlil had gifted Domi’s aging lover, Lakesh, with a new flush of youth, only to cruelly snatch it away with some genetic succubus that ebbed the life out of Lakesh and almost killed him. However, it was in his current and supposed final form that Enlil had proved his most dangerous. Like the other eight members of the Annunaki royal family, Enlil had emerged from a hybrid body when the starship Tiamat had reappeared in Earth’s orbit, triggering a genetic download that granted the Annunaki yet another incarnation. When they had first walked the Earth, the Annunaki had been revered as gods by the primitive humans who inhabited the planet; in fact, that godly reverence had also been granted to their slave caste, the Igigi, such was the splendor attached to all things Annunaki—a race whose very slaves were gods.

Enlil and his siblings had reemerged with the Tiamat download to take control of the Earth in the twenty-third century. However, they had soon reverted to type, their petty jealousies turning them against one another. So it was that in squabbles with his family, the royal bloodline of the Annunaki, Enlil and his

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