Odin's Eye by Kal Spriggs

Author:Kal Spriggs [Spriggs, Kal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941620212
Publisher: Henchman Press
Published: 2015-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

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Mel scrambled out of the access shaft and into the small space beyond. From her mental map, it was part of the small environmental system that fed the minimal life support for the section.

It was also heavily covered in some kind of growth. Mel didn't know if it was some kind of bacteria, fungi, or algae, but clearly something was wrong with the system. For that matter, the air was hot and humid and condensation covered her helmet visor; things were well out of norm.

She spotted the two repair bots as they slunk away out of sight, they had some kind of biological growth attached to their backs, tendrils of which went into open maintenance plates on them.

“This is really damned weird,” Mel said. She'd never seen anything like this. It wasn't some kind of bacterial growth gone out of control, this stuff almost looked like it was designed.

“Hello, Mel,” a familiar voice said from behind her.

Mel spun and brought her gun up. She froze, though, as she saw the man who stood behind her. There was something familiar about his face. It wasn't the harsh planes or the sharply defined cheekbones, nor was it the cruel smile or the cold arrogance in his eyes. It was something about the shape of his mouth and the angle of his eyes.

“Giles?” Mel gasped.

His cruel smile grew wide, “Ah, you recognized me. You're remarkably perceptive, for cattle.”

“You're dead,” Mel said, “I saw you die.” More than that, she had held his hand as he died and felt his pulse go erratic and then stop. She had seen the life go out of his eyes... and what she saw in those eyes now chilled her to the bone.

“I should really thank you for that,” Giles said. “And while Giles was never really my true name, just that of my shell, you may call me that. If you spoke my royal name I'd have to kill you, anyway.”

“Royal...” Mel just shook her head, “What the hell are you?” She kept Maggie leveled at him, finger on the trigger and ready to shoot. Whatever this was, he was responsible for the sabotage, which meant he was her enemy.

She backed away from him, even as her gaze darted around the compartment. He was too close to the hatch she had entered for her to feel comfortable trying to go out that way, but there should be another hatch near the back of the compartment, she knew. It would open up on the secondary corridors within Fenris, which would lead her to the others.

“That's something someone as... limited as you couldn't ever fully understand,” Giles said. “Suffice it to say, I'm better than you. Superior... and this,” he waved a hand at the strange biological growths, “this is proof of that.” He cocked his head at her, “Lower your weapon, Mel.”

“Drop dead,” Mel snapped. “What is this shit?” She jerked her head at the organic growth.

He sighed, as if his patience were tried by a child's temper tantrum.

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