Gravity Trap (Places of Power Book 6) by Leonard Petracci

Author:Leonard Petracci [Petracci, Leonard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-05T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter 41, SC

It took three hours for the media to explain what had occurred to General Graucus. The military likely realized it first, sending a second round of troops to intercept him, tipped off by the halted radio transmissions, which came at Graucus’ word to his troops to trust no one outside of themselves.

Of course, Siri had instilled that idea in his mind, giving him a paranoia that fed upon his drive to protect his country, to keep his own troops safe. Graucus’ higher-ups had sent him to wage war upon the diamond giant—and since he now believed the giant was on their own side, that meant his must have been compromised. He had to take matters in his own hands, and he did so with the gusto of a soldier overburdened with years of bureaucracy.

To Graucus, he was the ultimate patriot. To everyone else, he was rogue.

The military’s attention turned to him even as the titans began to move. Graucus’ forces were preparing a full-on assault of the European Alliance. That would bring instantaneous war, and could be even more deadly than the anomaly.

Then, Siri had turned Blake towards the first city, and panic set in.

It was a hundred miles to the city. So far, the titans had moved at a measly five miles per hour pace while the military forces continued to depart around them.

“We anticipate that the anomaly is keeping pace with the rogue general for protection,” one of the news anchors had said, now at the closest distance anyone would come to the titans, a half mile away on a helicopter with zoom lenses. “Investigations are now underway to determine if this is an internal plot by Graucus, to form an insurrection utilizing top-secret military weaponry.”

To those who had never met Blake or Siri, the theory made sense—that the general was harnessing the anomaly to spark a war only he wanted. By this logic, it followed that stopping the general would also stop the anomaly.

But we knew better. Siri only kept pace with the military for the same reason she sang to us every night at the rehabilitation facility, even after we had fallen under her command. She was continuing to shape their minds, removing any doubts to their actions, building in absolute certainty and loyalty. Solidifying her presence and intent, so when she left, they would act independent of her command but still according to her wishes.

When she did leave, it was with the impulsivity of a changing wind. So fast that for a full ten seconds, the cameras lost sight of Blake as he left the frame, their cursing muffled by the helicopter’s blades. Blake ran at a speed proportional to his size, the other titans straggling behind him. Each loping stride covered a football field, and he reached full speed in seconds, his sharpened toes clawing great clods of dirt out behind him.

Within a minute, there was no mistaking the direction he headed. And within five minutes, the news stations had an animated map showing the closing distance between him and the closest major city.

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