Reality's Plaything 5: The Infinity Annihilator by Will Greenway

Author:Will Greenway
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Space Opera, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Science Fiction, General, Adventure, Epic, Folklore & Mythology
Publisher: Writer's Exchange Publishing
Published: 2010-09-23T17:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Twenty-Nine

I am the intangible shadow, the scything

horror with no name. I have lived a

thousand lifetimes and the blood of my

victims would fill a sea. Good and evil are

mere concepts. The only things that matter

in the universe are survival and satisfaction.

My satisfaction—not yours…

—Vulcindra Skybane,

Empress Ascendant, 1st Alliance

Sarai stared at the beckoning hand. This was poorly timed. She knew it. Bannor knew it. The whole group hummed with it. Even Bhaal, the unstoppable Lokori that feared nothing, looked dubious. Kalindinai gripped her hair in uncharacteristic frustration. Corim, ever the calculating man, paused for two heartbeats before thumping one of the seargas on the shoulder and leaping into the gate.

His watery distorted silhouette appeared on the other side, turned and stepped out of view. The three Kriar Seargas, two males and one female, glanced at one another and followed him into the gap.

“Damn, I’m so tired of this spit,” Wren growled. “This could end it. I’m going.” She leaped through.

Daena shrugged. To the girl, it was just another adventure. She leaped in behind her.

Kalindinai, Bhaal, and Sarai stood alone in the corridor. Vulcindra’s hand pulled back through the gate. She obviously didn’t expect them to come.

The blue-haired Lokori looked at them with a tilted head.

“Why don’t you go, Bhaal?” Kalindinai said. “It’s more war, right?”

The female’s expression remained flat. “Mother say to guard sister-to-be. I do.”

“Damn it,” Kalindinai said. “I don’t know which is more dangerous, going after them or staying here.”

Sarai stepped close to her mother. “Don’t you always say the enemy in front of you is half as deadly as the one behind you?”

The Queen brushed back her dark hair and stared at her daughter. “Yesss.”

The third princess stared at the gate. “Then let’s go.”

“You’re pregnant—this is very risky.”

“I was here and nearly got kidnapped. There’s a difference?”

Kalindinai tilted her head back and growled. “Gah.” She pointed her staff at the gate. “Go.”

Sarai turned and leaped into the shimmering icy surface of the gate.

To Bannor, seeing through Sarai’s eyes, the threads of the universe kinked around them. For an instant, a billion stars and nebulae whirled past them and vanished as they clanked down onto the metal grillwork on the far side.

Bhaal landed beside her an instant later. The two of them stepped back and watched as the queen emerged from the surface of the shimmering portal like a phantom, translucent at first, her crackling body solidifying before dropping to the metal panels in front of the pulsing Kriar travel machinery.

Breath making plumes in the icy air, Sarai glanced around the gloomy chamber lit with a faint greenish light. She wrinkled her nose at a raw caustic scent lingering in the heavy air. A rhythmic trembling, more vibration than sound, hummed through the surroundings, rising and falling like the breathing of some gigantic beast. They stood on a railed platform raised a few paces above the floor in the center of a circular area sixty paces across. Tendrils of mist swirled down the ramps to a crystalline-looking floor where strands of colored light twisted and writhed.

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