EMERGENCE: Annihilation, Book 6 (The Emergence Series) by JT Sawyer

Author:JT Sawyer [Sawyer, JT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

With dusk nearly upon the jungle, Nick emerged from the small hacienda, wiping the slurry of fresh blood and adrenal fluid from his lips. The living room behind him was filled with the wails of several humans tied to the wall.

He walked down the leaf-littered stone sidewalk towards a shade ramada made from palm fronds and sat down at a table beside a pile of nautical maps. He slid out a small, folded topo map of the region but then felt a sudden stab of pain in his frontal lobe. He winced, leaning back, catching movement to his right as the lone female alpha in his group staggered out from the treeline. It moved with difficulty, dragging its right leg. Gray fluid was flowing from its ears and nose while its mouth hung agape. It extended its arm out towards him as he leapt up, catching the creature before it collapsed.

Nick gently turned the creature on its side, examining the head for signs of trauma then probing her mind. He could the feel the pain as if his own blood was boiling and sensed her voice in him, the shrill sounds of agony and fear ricocheting off his psyche. What has happened? How can I help you? It wheezed out a bronchial cough as fluid gurgled in its throat. The ropy parasite inside tried to push up through the gray mess but only fluttered its head then went limp as the alpha’s body slumped in Nick’s arms.

The voice in his head faded like a mighty torch being extinguished in the wind. Nick felt his chest sink, and the base of his neck grew tight, as if someone had plunged a red-hot spike into his spine. He looked into the alpha’s glassy eyes then lowered her to the ground as Crixus and another alpha gathered beside him. He scrutinized the fluid still throbbing out from the dead creature’s orifices then looked up at the two figures next to him. He only sensed the same confusion in their minds, wondering what could have killed so mighty a creature. Nick picked up her body and then stood, walking over to the shade of a large palm tree, where he laid the alpha down against the trunk.

Though he did not grieve as he would have in his previous life, he felt the loss of a unique mind that once looked to him for guidance and was now gone forever.

“What happened to you, my sister?” he whispered as he turned and watched the sun setting along the horizon. He wanted to thrust his clenched fist into the dispassionate star and retrieve some life-yielding power that could change the outcome of his departed alpha.

Sometimes he was unsure if his disbelief in God was unfounded as the reins of his former religious indoctrination tugged on his intellect. Why would a god do this to his own creation? If you are real then why let those created in your image suffer as they have—or did you let us come into existence to punish them?

He thought of the future of his kind, knowing the U.

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