Grak: Private Instigator (Orc PI Book 1) by Joseph J. Bailey

Author:Joseph J. Bailey [Bailey, Joseph J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996475679
Publisher: Joseph J. Bailey
Published: 2017-09-18T23:00:00+00:00

23

By the time Yocto made it to the bar, I was blinder than a dwarf pulled out from under his heaping mound of gold and reluctantly dragged into full daylight.

“Would it be possible to turn that off?” I asked, pointing to his refulgent shoulder orb.

Yocto’s rainbow strobe light pulsing over us was as maddening as it was blinding.

He had not been kind enough to turn them off when he approached.

If Yocto had not been sent to help us, I would have taken his crystal in my hand and smashed it to bits.

Gladly.

Then we would see if he was still smiling like a lunatic.

I certainly would be.

“I need to use the spectralphotometer to search for and analyze traces of the constituents of the serum that caused the monstrous transformations.”

Holding my left hand over my eyes to shield them from the unbearable glare, I asked, “Once you’re done, you’ll be able to turn it off?”

After just a few minutes in its presence, I was beginning to think Yocto’s spectralphotometer was a greater public nuisance than Alyon’s Citizens randomly turning into bloodthirsty monsters.

“Certainly!”

Well, that, at least, was a relief.

“Here. Take these.” He handed Kordeun and me each a pair of shaded glasses.

When I put them on, the world shifted back into glorious normalcy.

My urge to strangle him dropped, albeit only slightly.

With a snap of his fingers, Yocto encased Orthanq’s many ocular orbs in movable fields of similar effect.

My equanimity temporarily restored, though I didn’t know what next horror Yocto might visit upon us, I inquired, “So, what exactly do you plan to do?”

“A little bit of destructive sampling, some combinatorial analysis, some theoretical modeling, and some probability collapse determinations.”

I did not know what any of that was, so I was all for it.

“Do you need anything from us?” I was hopeful he didn’t, but I thought it better to ask.

“Just for you to get out of the way.”

I got.

By way of explanation, Yocto added, “I will examine the dishes used to serve the bar’s patrons for chemical residues. These results will then be evaluated against known compounds. From this data, possible effects of any discovered chemicals upon a range of representative species will be interpolated and extrapolated across a multidimensional array of possibilities.”

Completely unclear on what he was doing, I backed farther away from Yocto.

Kordeun followed me closely.

Orthanq moved strategically to the far side of the bar.

Looking around decisively, Yocto said, “Clear?”

With no one else responding, Yocto answered himself, saying, “Clear!”

Clear of what?

Then the world exploded into thrumming vortices of swirling lights, and I saw exactly what.

A massive beam of impossibly white light erupted from Yocto’s spectralphotometer. I could feel the heat from where I had sheltered across the room. Arcs of green, fuchsia, yellow, blue, and purple spiraled within and around the pulsing column.

As he moved the ray back and forth over Orthanq’s shelves of glasses, mugs and plates hanging on the wall behind the bar, Yocto’s analysis quickly turned the entire wall into molten slag.

“Less destructive sampling!” I yelled.

Satisfied, with no glass or ceramic left intact, Yocto turned off his beam.

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