Judgement (Kat Dubois Chronicles Book 5) by Lindsey Fairleigh

Author:Lindsey Fairleigh [Fairleigh, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

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It took a few hours—or so I guessed, since I didn’t actually have access to anything that would tell me how much time had passed—for Anapa and me to put together a plan that didn’t sound like straight-up suicide. I would sit tight and hone my power until I was strong enough to cut the ties between universes. Here, or in my own universe—it didn’t really matter. I just needed a little more time. I just needed to be a little bit stronger. Whatever the verdict, time was what we needed most. So long as I wasn’t executed, the plan could work.

Once I was strong enough, we would strike. While the Mother was off harvesting the energy from some poor, unsuspecting universe, I would sever the connection between that universe and the mother universe, isolating the Mother of All in the very same universe she’d been destroying, totally cut off from everything she’d created. Then, with the Mother out of the way, I would free Isfet, and we would instate her as the new Mother of All…one that didn’t devour entire universes just to boost her power.

As the plan stood, it set me on edge, but in a good way. In an excited way. A focused, let’s-do-this sort of way.

I was pleased to discover that Anapa and I weren’t alone in our rebellion. The spokeswoman of the High Council was a supporter, however quietly, as were a few other, less notable Netjers. Apep, Re’s partner in cultivating and caring for my universe, was among them, though he’d been found out and imprisoned a while back. Anapa had only recently let Re in on the plan, once he saw how reticent the other Netjer had been to share the Isfet information at the trial and realized that my universe was the most important thing to Re. He would fight to save it, no matter the risk.

Anapa sat in the purple armchair in the corner while I paced back and forth across the room, needing the movement to help me think. He nibbled on burgers and fries every now and again, but I’d opted for a single, massive gorging shortly after my vomit-fest. My body had needed the energy desperately, especially after the regenerative sleep. Especially considering what we had planned.

Soon, the Mother of All and her High Council would call me back into the trial chamber to announce their verdict. Either my universe would be allowed to continue on until harvest time—likely with some modifications—or it would be severed from the Netjer universe and left to wither into the thing I’d seen in my dreams.

A seed of dread settled into the pit of my stomach. I expected them to announce the latter, if only because of the dream. The echo. It was a real, horrifying possibility and, according to Anapa, the more likely one. He was even more certain after I shared the dream with him.

But that wouldn’t mean the end of the world. At least, not right away. According to

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