God's War by Kameron Hurley

Author:Kameron Hurley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Comics & Graphic Novels, General, Science fiction, Adventure, Military, Fiction
ISBN: 9781597802147
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2011-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

17

Rhys woke in a bad mood, and morning prayer didn’t make him feel much better. He needed a clear head, but even after going through the salaat, his mind was still stuffed with list after list of chemical compounds and vat numbers and bug secretions. Kine had been a copious note-taker, but none of the names and numbering in her records made much sense to him—it likely wouldn’t make any sense to anybody outside the breeding compounds. And he was out of time to decode it. He left most of it with Taite so he could work on it in their absence.

At least his immersion in Nasheenian organic tech had kept him from dwelling on the border crossing. Nyx kept telling him that she had a way to get over the border that wouldn’t involve any of them inhaling chemical vapor and burning out their lungs.

But somehow, he doubted it.

Anneke—who was dark to begin with—rubbed herself down in bug secretions to stain herself even darker. Anneke was skinny in the hips and flat-chested and could pass for a boy. She had done the same a half-dozen times with Raine’s crew, she said. She and Khos could drive right over the border—a particularly low-tech, low-security part of it, in any case. She had a couple of her relatives on the other side scout out a good stretch and assured everybody twenty times over that she could handle herself.

They were packed at dawn.

Rhys stood with the others around the loaded bakkie. He had his Kitab in one hand. He watched Nyx standing next to him, her face a cool blank.

“You keep your head down and report any deviations to Taite, got it?” Nyx told Anneke. Anneke rubbed down her gun while they all waited for Khos to shift.

“Yeah, boss. Me and Khos’ll meet you in Azam, bright and shiny. You gotta take care of that wheel spinner, though.” She winked at Rhys.

Rhys watched Khos stow his clothes behind the front seat and start his shift.

Rhys had to look away when he did it. The contortion and contraction looked obscene. Wrong. As a magician, Rhys could feel the wrongness in the air, the bending of matter in ways it should not bend.

Anneke opened the passenger door, and Khos-the-dog jumped inside and settled onto the seat, tongue lolling. He was a yellow, blue-eyed dog now, cleaner than the wild mutts that scrounged for garbage in the streets but otherwise no different in appearance.

Nyx sidled up closer to Rhys and crossed her arms, and the two of them watched Anneke and Khos drive out of Husayn’s garage and into the violet double dawn.

Rhys took a step away from her, to give himself some room. He was angry at her again, angry about this, about all of it. He wanted to find some way to tell her why he was angry, to explain it, but she tended to believe that every conversation involving strong emotion was full of words and resolutions that were not meant, as if he were a raving drunk.

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