Dragon_Bridge & Sword_The Final War by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2018-02-06T22:00:00+00:00

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BOOK AND LIZARD

IT WASN’T EVEN locked.

The door, I mean.

The room on the other side also wasn’t a lab, which was a relief. Sort of.

It definitely wasn’t the stainless steel table and specimen kind of lab. It also didn’t have a bunch of dead bodies in cages like the lab we’d visited earlier that day.

I suppose it might have been a computer lab of sorts––if a much more high-tech and sterile version than Dante’s sweatbox on the ship had been, with her tubs of live squids, boxes of spare parts, plant-based food sources that smelled like mold, dinosaur toys, junk food, pingpong paddles, outdated monitors and spotty VR displays.

Dante’s comp-tech room always managed to smell like the ass-end of a sewer mixed with a men’s locker room.

In contrast, Novak’s room was pristine, with nothing but softly humming tech built into the walls, the floors, and several terminals in the room. A row of monitors ringed one corner, flickering with different sets of images around a console seat in the middle.

My eyes went there, focusing on a narrow-shouldered body with gray hair.

She sat in a low-backed chair, facing away from me.

I watched the back of her head, then glanced up at the VR projections. They were the only thing in the room that moved; the woman herself was as motionless as the equipment around her. She didn’t look over when I walked deeper into the room, but sat perfectly still in her padded swivel chair, her nearly white hair molded to her small head like a helmet.

Above, I saw my face with the prosthetics in a fish-eye lens. The image of me glared up at the camera, my eyes glowing from behind dark contact lenses.

The image was frozen, my scowl and my aleimi fixed on that crystal screen.

Realizing the feed was probably already on its way to their security station, I finished crossing the room with deliberate strides.

“Bridge!” Dalejem practically shouted my name. “Fuck! They’re coming! They’re coming right now! Do this thing and get out!”

He lingered by the door.

I was still enough in his light that I could feel he’d stayed there to get me out in the event the door locked behind me, or they dropped some kind of grid over the room. He already had the security panel outside the door cracked partway open.

He continued to yank on the organic casing as he shouted inside to me.

“Get out of there, Alyson!” he said, emotion in his voice. “You’ve got one minute. Or I’m carrying you the fuck out!”

I nodded, but scarcely heard his words.

The screen next to the one where my face still glared up in anger had just flickered into life. As it did, the VR projections that had been rotating overhead, showing blueprints of some large structure, vanished.

My eyes went to the new screen. A darker feeling crawled over my gut when a face began to materialize out of the darkness of that glass-like display.

Dragon emerged out of that black backdrop, staring straight at me.

Clear-colored irises. Eyes so much like Revik’s eyes.

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