Jack Carson - Battle Magic by Jack Carson

Author:Jack Carson [Carson, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Allyson handed her child to Vicky with a distraught face. "Get to the bomb-shelter," she ordered the young woman before looking around. "All non-combatants, go with her. Kalinicia . . ."

"No!" the girl shouted.

"Yes! You are the Terran Ambassador and I will NOT allow you to be harmed on my watch!"

"No!" Kalinicia restated, crossing her arms.

Allyson gritted her teeth, then talked into her communicator. "Thug?"

*|| Yes? || (click)* the troll responded. He was still out by the pit where his trolling was kept. And like Allyson herself, she knew that Thug would not let anyone harm his young.

"Stay hidden until I call you. They probably think you went with Eliza."

*|| Understood, || (click)*

She looked at Kalinicia. "Please, go downstairs! You're the most potent magic-user we have, and I may need you to keep anyone from getting in there. Do whatever you have to do!"

Kalinicia nodded. It still felt like running away to her, but she would do as asked . . . as long as she was actually be allowed to help.

Allyson went to a cabinet and pulled out a heavy repeater gauss rifle. She saw that Dr. Trendenfall has been whisked downstairs along with Vicky by Mr. McBride, with Wyrm in hot pursuit. He had a master control station down there as well, so he could monitor the automated defenses without missing a beat. Then Allyson noticed Duste . . . she was standing in the middle of the room with her feet frozen to the floor. This wasn't her world . . . fighting wasn't something she knew or understood.

The trained soldier rushed over, grabbed the girl by her shoulders and shook her. "Downstairs . . . now!" she shouted.

Duste nodded and ran, ashamed at her apparent inability to do anything under pressure. As soon as she got downstairs, the door locked behind her. She went over to where Wyrm was monitoring things.

"About twenty heavily armed men," he said, glancing from one video feed to the next. "No . . . thirty. There's one group just keeping Kalinicia's men pinned. The rest look like they're trying to find a way in." He checked another monitor. "Damn! They used THAT trick back in the old days."

"What trick?"

"They started a bunch of car and building fires . . . it'll tie up the local authorities for a while. We can't anticipate much help for at least ten minutes."

"Why . . ."

"This is the way it works. We hit them, they try to hit back." He grinned. "And a couple of them just located Thug . . . or were located BY Thug!"

Duste stared at the projection. The troll had smashed one attacker against a tree, then tossed the other in his grasp into the pit.

"Wait, isn't his . . . trolling . . . down there?"

"Yep!" Wyrm chuckled. "Don't worry . . . trollings are born with regenerative ability. And waking one up from its nap . . . I actually feel sorry for that guy." They watched as dust came billowing up from below camera level .

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