Emberling: The Complete Series: (Complete Series Box Sets) by Young Daniel

Author:Young, Daniel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Taggart completely ignored the pain in his leg and the aching exhaustion that threatened to break his back. Tate wasn’t the lightest guy in the world, and Taggart had been dragging his brother around for the better part of the day.

Merrel and Erqi followed Tate and Taggart, and Wollett and Qiao both kept casting backward glances at the two brothers. Any of them would have been glad to take Tate off Taggart’s hands, but he just gritted his teeth and kept on going. No one else was going to carry Tate after what he’d just gone through.

The friends moved a lot faster up the tunnel this time. Having three injured people didn’t slow them down, and no one suggested stopping to rest. No one discussed where they were going, either. In fact, no one spoke at all.

Taggart kept his head down and concentrated all his power on following the people in front of him. They snaked through countless tunnels and eventually came to the hall where Claire and Odo had rescued the party from the Sleepwalkers.

The two of them started to enter it and immediately retreated. The place was crawling with Sleepwalkers.

Claire pointed behind them, and everyone filed into a different tunnel. No one opened their mouths to question. Taggart didn’t give a shit if he had to carry Tate for the rest of the decade, as long as they made it to the Aechelus eventually. Nothing else mattered.

Taggart didn’t care anymore how Claire knew her way around this complex, either. She had as much reason to get the hell off this planet as the rest of the crew. She’d take the quickest route to the exit. Then it was just a matter of getting across town without everyone getting their asses handed to them by the armies warring for control of the planet.

She finally turned into a different corridor that ended in a closed door. She picked up the pace. “We’re there! This is the exit. We just have to—”

She fell silent as a distant rumble shook the ground. That vibration traveled up Taggart’s legs into his body.

Tate tried to turn around. “What is that?”

“Who cares?” Claire turned to the door. “Let’s get out of here.”

“It’s getting louder,” Merrel remarked.

Claire ignored him. She strode to the end of the corridor and pulled the door open. She led the way into a different corridor that Taggart recognized instantly. It was the one that the crew had used to get into this fortress on all their previous ill-fated visits.

His spirits soared, and everyone started walking faster. Taggart made himself a promise that, if he made it off this planet alive, he would never set foot in Monkskull’s territory again as long as he lived.

He could see the city outside. Heat radiated off the sun-baked streets, and dust stung his eyes. It was the most wonderful feeling of his life to finally get out of this building.

Merrel started chuckling, and clapped Erqi on the shoulder as the party approached the exit.

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