Lore, Pittacus - Lorien 07 - United as One by Lore Pittacus

Author:Lore, Pittacus [Lore, Pittacus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

“YOU THINK HE’S ALL RIGHT?” ADAM ASKS.

I take my eyes off the door leading out of the hangar for a moment to shoot Adam a look. He doesn’t notice on account of his face being buried in a tangle of wires and cords. He’s lying on his back beneath the ripped-open dashboard of a Skimmer. His hands work quickly to disconnect the cloaking device.

“John’s still alive, if that’s what you mean,” I reply. So far, a new scar hasn’t burned its way across my ankle.

Adam sits up. I stand nearby, hunkered low, the cockpit of this latest Skimmer popped open. I’m carrying a Mog blaster and have my aim leveled on the door, just in case any Mogs should manage to get by John and interrupt what we’re doing. So far, it’s been quiet.

“That’s not what I mean, and you know it,” Adam replies.

“You mean psychologically,” I say.

“Yeah.”

We climb out of this Skimmer and move on to the next one. I place the detached cloaking device inside a toolbox that we emptied out, stacked next to the others that we’ve filled.

“I think he’s doing about as well as any of us,” I say. “I mean, what do you expect?”

“I don’t know,” Adam admits. “But he scares me a little bit.”

I don’t respond to that. I’d be lying if I said the changes that have been taking place in John lately weren’t a little frightening. He’s still the same guy I’ve known, relied on, loved—just, with an edge. With power. And a hunger for revenge.

Maybe that’s exactly what we need right now.

An alarm begins to whine, and the lights in the docking bay flash off and on. Adam snaps free another cloaking device before looking up at me with raised eyebrows.

“I take it that’s a bad sign,” I say.

Adam shrugs. “It’s the high alert. For intruders or attacks.”

“So they know we’re here.”

“They were always going to find out eventually, right? If John’s going at the same rate he did down here, that alarm’s about twenty minutes too late to do any good.”

We move on to the next Skimmer, my grip now a little tighter on the blaster handle. Before we climb aboard, something catches my attention. A buzzing from the docking bay’s communications array. I touch Adam on the shoulder.

“What is that?”

He cocks his head to listen but can’t hear over the alarm. We jog over to the control panel in time to hear a brusque voice barking in Mogadorian. Adam immediately looks towards the wide-open entrance of the docking bay, the one we came through, blue sky and crisp air out there.

“The Skimmers on patrol detected the alarm; they’re asking for confirmation.”

As Adam says this, a couple of the small scout ships come into view, gliding towards the landing zone.

“Great,” I say. “Get ready for a fight.”

“Not necessarily,” Adam replies. His fingers hover, poised over a red button on the control panel.

The two ships zoom closer. I put my hand on the back of Adam’s neck, ready to make us invisible at a moment’s notice.

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