Night Wars by Graham Masterton

Author:Graham Masterton [Graham Masterton]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-06-01T21:00:00+00:00

DomMagator looked down at the Sun Gun in in-credulity. “It jammed!”he screamed at it. “It’s supposed to be a dream gun, and itjammed! Stupid imaginary piece of shit!”

The time curve reached six minutes, fifty-seven seconds, and with an odd, sideways shiver, they were all looped back into thepresent– back into the teeming snow, with Kalexikox lying on his side, his arm still missing, and the sky as dark as a storm-cellar.

Amia Fabeya came over to DomMagator and inspected the Sun Gun. “Look,” she said, pointing to a small gold lever. “,The power-reserve switch has tripped. That’s why it didn’t fire.”

“The which switch?”

“Whenever we enter a dream, we have only a limited amount ofpower to keep us going, which you carry, in yourbatteries. Ifwe exhaust all of thatpower, there’s no way for us to open a portal and escape the dream before the dreamer wakes up. That means we have to stay in the dream world until another contingent of NightWarriors comes to get us out ... that’s ifthey can find us.” She paused, and then added, “That’s if they come at all.”

“So what are you saying? We’re running low onjuice?”

“The Sun Gun burns up a massive amount of energy every time you fire it. And I mean massive. If you had taken that shot, you wouldhave fried the ice-shark, for sure, but your weapons systemknew that there was a high risk that we mightbe maroonedhere, without enough power to get back to the waking world, probably ever.”

“Why didn’t you tell me this before?”

“I’m sorry, DomMagator. I didn.’t realize how much power we’d already used up. When The Zaggaline created Nanook and the House Breaker, he musthave depleted our reserves much more than I thoughthe would. Creating guide dogs and solid people out ofelectrons, that’s a very energy-intensive operation. And time-curving isn’t exactly economical when it comes to power.”

“So what the flap-doodle do we do now?”

The temperature had dropped so far that fine ice crystals were forming around their lips as they spoke, so that they looked like bearded Arctic explorers. The Zaggaline came over and said, “We have to getDunc out ofhere ... we have to get him home. He’s going to die ifwe don’t.”

The snow was piling down so fast that Kalexikox looked as ifhe were covered by a blanket. “Maybe we shouldjust risk it,” said Dom Magator.

“We can’t,” said AmiaFabeya. “We’re the only people in the world who are capable of stopping the Winterwent and the High Horse, and ifthe ice-shark gets all ofus –”

“You said something earlier,” put in Xanthys. “Something

about sushi.”

“What?” said DomMagator. “Thatwas merely an in- temperate expletive.”

“But I have an idea. Do we have enough energy for an- other time curve?”

Areola Fabeyachecked the small panel of telltale lights on Dom Magator’s belt. “Yes, we do. In fact we have quite a reasonable amount of energy left. It’s just that we don’t have enough for a fifteen-million degree gunshot.”

“ ’Ware shark!” shouted The Zaggaline, and pointed through the falling snow toward the house. A triangular

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