Night Warriors by Graham Masterton

Author:Graham Masterton [Masterton, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780751526912
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Published: 1998-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

‘Samena!’ he shouted. ‘Samena! You have to run for it!’ Samena glanced at him quickly, and her face was tight with tension. He could see her judging in that same flick of the eye the distance from where she was standing to the tunnel, trying to decide which was the best way to make her escape.

‘Now, Samena!’ Kasyx bellowed at her. ‘Now!’ Then, however, the courtyard began to change - and change dramatically. The balconies withdrew into the walls, like closing eyelids, and the hooded figures vanished with them. The tops of the walls high above their heads began to lean towards each other and close in, until at last they joined up together to form a vaulted roof. Beneath their feet, the heartbeat-drumming grew louder, and more insistent, and all the time the courtyard grew darker and darker, until Kasyx and Tebulot could only make out the whiteness of Samena’s arms and legs, as she came struggling slowly towards them.

Kasyx called, ‘Samena! One last effort!’ But now the floor of the courtyard began to drop, and curve, so that Samena was having to climb her way uphill to reach the entrance to the tunnel. The cobbles rumpled up into soft, fleshy folds, slippery with mucus; after only two or three steps upward, Samena lost her grip and slid back down again. Kasyx leaned forward, and looked down into the deep curved reaches of the courtyard, but Samena seemed to have dropped right out of sight.

Tebulot shouted to Kasyx, ‘Give me some charge! Just a little! I have to go get her!’

Kasyx lifted the visor of his helmet. ‘Supposing we don’t have enough charge to get us out of this dream? What then?’

‘I have to go get Samena!’ Tebulot yelled. ‘For Christ’s sake, give me some charge!’

Kasyx hesitated, but Tebulot said fiercely, ‘We’re in this together, Kasyx, like the Three Musketeers. One for all and all for one. If we don’t take Samena with us then we don’t go. We’re Night Warriors, don’t you understand that? Not just three people playing a game! This is us, this is real! Night Warriors!’

With a nod of acceptance, Kasyx held out his hand. Tebulot took it and placed it directly against his breastplate. ‘Now,’ said Tebulot, and Kasyx allowed a subdued flow of power to leave his body and pour into the machine-carrier’s energy system.

‘More,’ Tebulot urged him.

Kasyx took a sharp breath, but gave him more, even though he could feel the power shrinking out of his own body with every passing second.

Tebulot checked the charge-scale on his weapon. It glowed up to the halfway mark, and so he took Kasyx’s hand away. ‘That’s enough. Now I’m going after her.’

All around them the walls and ceiling of the building were closing in, heavy and suffocating and dark. Kasyx touched the centre of his forehead, and a bright beam of light shone out from the rim of his visor, narrow, but spreading out 180 degrees. It lit up redness, and wetness, and ridges of soft flesh.

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