Lucian_Dark God's Homecoming by Van Allen Plexico

Author:Van Allen Plexico [Plexico, Van Allen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Rocket Books
Published: 2011-07-19T23:00:00+00:00

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Still in a daze, I roamed the aisles, alongside Evelyn. Soon enough, we found the forklift.

It was actually a gravity-defying device that could hold quite a load of crates. We managed to secure ten of them on board before the stack grew unwieldy. That totaled fifty rifles, with an equal number of pistols. A nice start, I thought. And, given the drastic reduction in the—you’ll pardon the expression—manpower that Baranak would be able to bring to bear, quite possibly more than enough already.

With a grim sense of satisfaction I had not felt in quite some time, I activated the controls and steered the hovering platform down the aisle and to the warehouse exit. Unlatching the door, I slid it upward, and Evelyn and I stepped out into darkness.

Nighttime in Mysen City. For a place I had called home only days earlier, it could have been the far side of the galaxy to me. What a difference in outlook the Power made, as it moved through the body and energized the muscles and heightened the consciousness—and amplified ambitions.

Evelyn walked alongside the forklift, clearly uncomfortable. I had found her an ill-fitting but nondescript gray coat within the warehouse, to cover her bright blue flight suit with its golden Terran Alliance markings and insignias. I hoped it would prevent any further incidents and forestall uncomfortable questions from any who happened by us. Evelyn, though, could not possibly have been happy to walk the streets of a world she considered distasteful at best and rebellious at worst.

I looked at her then, studying her as her own attention was drawn to the darkened buildings and the few people moving about the streets. I had to admit I found her quite attractive. Though battered and bruised by all we had endured since our escape, she carried herself with a natural grace, an inner strength and beauty that radiated beyond the surface. And those eyes, blue to the point of luminosity, held a power of their own, subtle but distinct. Then I remembered my earlier admonition to myself about involvement with mortals, chuckled at the outrageousness of the thought that I should even need such a warning, and put the entire subject out of my mind.

Soon enough, we reached our destination. A big, square building, windowless, it boasted another broad door like the one we had just exited. By habit, I started to reach out and touch the identification pad, then laughed and exerted a tiny fraction of the Power instead. The lock cycled and the door slid upward.

We led the cargo lifter inside and I pulled the door closed behind us, then hit the lights. Evelyn gasped.

The entire space of the building’s interior was hollow, and only one object sat within it: my personal spacecraft. About thirty-five meters long, and nearly as wide, it resembled a giant bird of prey, its forward cockpit section curving down, its metal wings spread in graceful, curving arcs. The overhead lights shone down, rippling over the slick, smooth surface.

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