Hellgate London: Exodus by Mel Odom

Author:Mel Odom [Mel Odom]
Language: vie
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Star Books
Published: 2007-11-04T17:00:00+00:00

“You’re going to stay here?”

Seated on the bed in the general barracks room that had been assigned to him, Simon gazed up at Leah. “Yes,” he answered. He’d been surprised to have been accepted by someone. He’d assumed he would have gotten his armor at best, then been forced out into the city on his own. He would have gone without question.

Derek’s willingness to make a spot on his team for him had been surprising. Of course, it looked as though spots were regularly made on the teams.

“What about me?” she asked.

A few of the other Templar listened in to the conversation. A tri-dee at the other end of the room had collected a crowd. There were few new broadcasts from London proper, but the media people seemed determined to fill the channel with old footage and new conjectures.

Simon shifted his helmet in his hands. He’d been working hard for hours to clean the surface. Dirt and grit that clung to the armor made operation of the stealth mode harder. More than anything at the moment, he wanted to finish working on his armor and get some sleep. He was surprised by how tired he felt.

“What do you want to do?” Simon asked.

“I want to find my father.”

“We’re going out on patrol tomorrow.” Simon was amazed at how quickly his thinking had become plural. “If you’ll give me the address, I’ll discuss it with Derek. Perhaps we’ll be able to get by there.”

Leah crossed her arms over her chest. “I feel like I should be doing something.”

Simon put his helmet aside. “You are doing something. You’re surviving.”

“It’s not enough. I should be out there.”

“If you were out there, on your own, you’d be dead in minutes.” Simon nodded in the direction of the wounded man a few beds down. “Even armored up, we’re taking our chances out there.”

“Then why go?”

“Because we were trained for this.”

Leah glared at him reproachfully. “You were trained to fight demons.” Her tone dared him to make her a believer.

“Yes.”

She shook her head. “That isn’t something I can believe so easily.”

“You’ve seen them over the last few days. You know the demons are real.”

Letting out a quiet breath, Leah said, “Yes, but believing that you were trained to fight these creatures is even harder to accept than believing in demons.”

“Now,” Simon said gently.

After a moment, she nodded.

“We can hurt them,” Simon said. “We can kill them. That’s something the London police and the British military haven’t been able to do.”

“The…the demons still outnumber you.”

Simon noticed that she still had trouble acknowledging what they were up against even though she’d seen the demons up close on more than one occasion. For most people, one introduction was all that was required.

“Unless there are a lot more of you than I’ve seen,” Leah added.

“There are more demons,” Simon replied. “That’s why we have to move cautiously. The demons have weaknesses. We’ve got to discover them.”

“But lying here in wait, hiding,” she said it like it was something obscene, “is only allowing them to terraform more of London.

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