Prince of Dreams by Pippa DaCosta

Author:Pippa DaCosta
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crazy Ace Publishing

We sailed into Sol space as though we had every right to filter through the bristling tek buoys. Talen’s mental grip on the crew held firm, and the crew followed his orders to the letter. While he was around, the humans acted like eager puppies. Even Pierce, the iron captain, went out of her way to make sure her esteemed guest was comfortable while fluttering her lashes and making it clear he could have her any way he wanted. Multiple times.

Captain Pierce wrapped up her report of the uneventful journey to Sol and left the observation room with a fae-struck dreamy smile on her face.

Chuckling, I scanned the many, many screens flickering and dancing like holograms along the wall. “At least I don’t have to infect minds with suggestions. I was born attractive.”

Slumped at the table, Talen managed a muffled grunt as he massaged his temples. Whether from the strain of keeping the entire crew bespelled or the tek, he was suffering and it would get worse.

“The vakaru mothers all fell over themselves in shock when you were born, Marshal, with a star pinned to your infant chest?” he snarked back. He still had some humor left in him, but the deeper into Sol we ventured, the more the tek would eat away at his mind. We couldn’t stay long for fear the Nightshade might lose his shit, and after Valand, that was not something I relished being around to witness.

“Something like that.”

Keeping the fae in my peripheral vision, I continued to scan the ship’s livescreens. One screen had caught my eye. On our approach, the view had resembled an oval spider’s web, but now, with the ship among its design, it was clearly an expanse of never-ending tek scaffolding—a net still under construction, but humans didn’t wait once they got it in their heads to build. Not only were they capable of shutting the door on the rest of the systems, they were virtually ready.

Talen approached and admired the screens depicting the various levels of the ship, the crew, weaponry, communications, and more I’d yet to figure out.

“You were right,” he said. “This ship is a valuable weapon. But I don’t know how long I can function on it.”

“You spent three hundred years surrounded by tek. You can do this.”

His cheek twitched as he ground his teeth. “I can barely hear my own thoughts inside the tek interference.”

I had an idea of what he meant. The tek burned my senses too, irritating me like an itch I couldn’t scratch. I could live with it, but he might not. We had to get in and out quickly.

“I doubt we can take Excalibur close to Earth without attracting too much attention. We’ll take a shuttle in… just a stroll in the park.” A few million acres of parkland.

I tapped at the screens and brought up the blue and green image of Earth. Once the cradle of humanity, so they believed, and now a museum and temple to all things human. Their pearl of a world.

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