Nemesis: Book Six: (Nemesis Series: 66) by David Beers

Author:David Beers [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-29T21:00:00+00:00

The heat spread across the helicopter as if it floated in front of a star. Kenneth Marks felt it from a hundred feet off, and now they flew over it, two hundred feet high, but the heat only intensified now that they floated above--the heat rising to meet them.

Kenneth Marks stood from his seat and went to the helicopter's opening. He looked down and saw the magnificent red beneath. A fire that burned from nearly the universe's creation—relatively at least, certainly closer to that creation than humanity's. He squinted his eyes to keep tears from forming and clouding his view. The hole looked huge from his vantage point.

Everything Morena did stemmed from here, and Kenneth Marks knew she was right, that his disease wouldn't stop at the hole's opening. It would continue down, infecting the strands he saw climbing from the core. They were much different than the ones he kicked up north, watching their dead remains float into the air before falling alongside their soon to be dead brethren. The strands here were huge things, looking more like perfectly white, metal pipes. Hundreds of them lined the opening's perimeter, nestling right next to each other, one by one, intent on spreading out across this new world.

Kenneth Marks saw the burned world around the hole, what had once been green, either black ash or covered with the white alien substance. How many years did woods grow here, now showing—depending on your viewpoint—either the color of death or this new life.

He looked back into the helicopter and saw Knox on the other side, looking out just as he did. Kenneth Marks could have probably stepped back in and given Knox a little tap on his back, sending him falling over the side and into the incinerator beneath. It would be fun, watching him fall, hearing him scream, but everything else would end shortly after—calls would be made, orders given, and Kenneth Marks would sit in a cell while the world froze from the inside out.

No, now wasn't the right time.

"We can't land!" Kenneth Marks shouted into the helicopter. He had them come here because he wanted to give the appearance that he was focused on the core, when clearly it mattered only on the periphery.

"I'm not landing anywhere!" the pilot said, looking out the opposite window from Kenneth Marks.

Knox turned and looked at Kenneth Marks, though his face was hard to read with the distance and wind blowing through the helicopter.

"Take us to the house's coordinates," Kenneth Marks said finally, turning back to watch the fire beneath.

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