Lure of the Night by Bethany Knox

Author:Bethany Knox
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-10-18T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

We sat there in silence while I watched him suffer his grief, as he must have suffered it so many times in the past. It struck me then that the answer to their problems would be simple. If they killed me, the threat would be over. Ulysses again seemed to read my mind.

“No, don’t think that you are in any danger. At the time, I had no choice. We were not as organized as we are now, our communications were poor, and I found myself in a situation with my daughter where we were surrounded. She knew too what she was facing if they took her, just before they finally closed in she begged me to kill her. I used my pistol and shot her between the eyes. I will never forget her look, her final look just before I pulled the trigger. When they reached us, they were enraged to find her dead. They tried to kill me, but I survived and the Amstrydae reached me and treated me until I regained my health.”

It was a terrible story, I felt so sorry for him, holding in all of that grief for such a vast amount of time.

Then Ethan returned from the room where he had been making the call.

“It’s good news and bad news,” he said. “The good news is that it can be done, the bad news is that the method of doing it is almost impossible to set up and even then, potentially fatal to those of us that implement it.”

He explained what he meant. The Amstrydae considered before how they could remove the powers of the Medusans, so as to completely remove their threat. They had concluded that it was impossible, they did not possess any technology that would achieve that end. However, there was another way, we now lived in the nuclear age. The ranks of the Medusans numbered just about twelve hundred, concentrated in Europe and the USA. The Amstrydae and their Ardethan allies were slightly less, about nine hundred and fifty. If they could lure the Medusans to a place where they had a radioactive source, it should theoretically be possible to irradiate them, to expose them to sufficient radiation not to kill them but to sterilize them. If they were then unable to breed, The Carrier would be of no use to them. Ultimately, they would die out altogether, a terrible fate but one that their constant attacks on the Amstrydae had brought about.

“So how will you manage to get them all into one place at a single time?” I asked.

He looked at me. “We have discussed that, yes, but it’s not a solution that I like.”

The others were staring at me too, what was on their minds? Then it struck me, they’d worked it out, their look was one of pity, the kind of look that would be given to a victim.

“You want me to be the bait, don’t you?”

“I’m sorry, honey,” Dad said hurriedly. “They’ve talked about this and they can’t find any other way to bring them all to one place at one time.

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