Revolution by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward [Ward, Blaze]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781644702000
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

Twenty-Four

Eha

Gowook. Eha hadn’t been back to her homeworld in years, mostly because she was forever working. And, if she was going to be honest with herself, she had wanted to be closer to Addison, who forever stayed clear over on that fringe of space, up against the Phraettis Nebula. The middle of nowhere, except that soon it would become a highway to Human Space.

She wasn’t showing her pregnancy yet. Apparently Humans bulged in the middle as they progressed, but she would simply thicken some. Anyone but a Churquen would probably not even notice, and her people would not see anything for several more months.

It was early yet. At the same time, the little one was a reminder that the time to change the future had arrived.

Now.

Astral Jewel, the name they had given the stolen ship, was just about to land on the surface of the planet. Given her last few landings, Eha knew a twinge of anticipation, perhaps mixed with a solid dollop of rage.

But that was her. Dreamer. If anything, it was frustration that she could not just cast a spell and make things better. That she had to work through people. Understand them. Manipulate them, even, to get them to come to her understanding of things.

But she agreed with Aileen, watching Kuei settle on the pad with a soft kiss. The time might have also come for violence.

She feared that. It was a djinn who might never willingly return to the bottle, once freed to wreak havoc and destruction. Humans found it second nature, which was even more frightening.

She would have to overcome all of that and prove that the Innruld could be defeated, rather than simply annihilated.

If she could.

“We’ve landed,” Kuei announced unnecessarily as she started shutting things down. “I let Lazarus and the others know as well.”

Eha nodded. Took a deep breath and let the air purge something in the center of her being. Fear? Disappointment?

Whatever it had been, she would consume it as fuel. Use her body as a furnace to turn raw iron into steel. Forge it into a sword for now, until she could turn it later into a plowshare, either here or on one of those secret worlds she and Addison had talked about.

The Churquen would be free. The only question at this point, at least in Eha’s mind, was whether the other species could join them in that freedom.

“Eha?” Aileen asked tentatively.

“Gathering scales,” she replied sheepishly. “Sorry. So much to do.”

She typed a number into her system and let the local comm network route it.

The system connected and beeped twice. Eha hung up.

She dialed it again, beeped it twice more, and disconnected.

“Now we wait,” she said simply.

The Humans needed to remain aft. Out of sight, so that a camera did not pick them up.

What she was doing was going to be strange enough, complicated enough. Adding the Humans to the mix would make it that much worse. At least for now.

Later, they became necessary. Either as allies, or as mercenaries that she could aim at the Innruld to destroy everything.

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