Imperial Hilt (Imperial War Saga Book 2) by Celinda Labrousse

Author:Celinda Labrousse [Labrousse, Celinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Celinda Labrousse
Published: 2020-06-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Miranda stepped out into full dark. It was one of those rare nights when the suns eclipsed each other, making the moon a sliver of itself. Miranda had to rely on Oscar’s lights to know where they were going.

“Are we close?” Miranda walked with a purpose. If a night patrol found her, she wanted to look like a soldier on a mission. Getting shot wasn’t on her top ideals for experiences she lived through in BASIC.

‘Though it would fit in nicely with the ones I’ve already collected,’ she thought.

She realized too late that they’d not ventured to the Drill Instructure’s quarters like she thought when her knee hit the edge of something hard. A low concrete wall. The voice had grown louder as they moved through camp. Miranda hadn’t thought it possible. Now, instead of a distress call, it was almost so loud as to be inaudible. Which Miranda took as a good sign.

“Can you still hear it?”

“Yes,” Oscar beeped. “This way.” He turned into a sand dune. They’d left the outer buildings behind, traveled through the parade field, and now were going in a direction Miranda had never gone.

“Are you sure this is the way to the drill instructor quarters?” Miranda asked. The ground had turned from sandy to rocky. The area around them tilted upward in a climb.

“This is the way,” Oscar beeped.

“What’s out there?” she asked.

“We need to go this way,” he beeped. They continued up the path. Miranda became more self conscious with every step. She couldn’t hear the voice anymore. And though it was dark and she was going slow, it felt more like a trap than going to get help.

“This is BASIC,” she told herself. “It is to test your limits, make you a soldier.” And this was limit testing. She was exhausted. Her body has a walking ache. And it was getting harder to breathe.

Oscar darted to the left, seeing something she couldn’t. Miranda followed, her feet hitting hard packed earth. It was a path. No more rocks or sand.

“What is a path doing all the way up here?” She bent over to get a better look. But all she could see was black that glimmered in the light of the new moon.

She was concentrating so hard that she failed to notice she wasn’t alone. Miranda ran head first into a wall of flesh.

She stumbled back a step, her eyes wide. In front of her, blending perfectly with the stone, was an Ironside.

“What are you doing out here,” they said in unison.

“I asked you first,” they both replied at the same time.

“Beep, beep, beep,” Oscar said, breaking their synchronization.

“I heard a voice,” Miranda said. Eric, because that voice could only belong to Eric, hit a button on his armor. The camo function powered down, turning him into a silvery ghost.

“And you went looking for it alone.” The metal of his armor clanged as he tucked his hands up under his armpits.

“No,” she said mirroring his posture, “I went looking for help. And Oscar led me to you.

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