Sanctuary's Soldier: The Darkspace Saga Book 1 by B.C. Kellogg

Author:B.C. Kellogg [Kellogg, B.C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Blueshift Press
Published: 2017-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

“The concubines live mostly on these levels in the base of the palace,” she said, moving briskly down the corridor. “The ones from newly conquered worlds, anyway. Our own people send us here at the behest of the conquerors, hoping we catch the eye of some Satori duke or prince. Once they get us with child, then they send us back, intending that their bastard children will rule our worlds in their traditions, and bind their conquests to Albion Prime. If they find us especially amusing, then they keep us here. Sometimes they even marry a concubine. Some of the women here pin all their hopes on that.”

She walked a little faster. “I’ve done everything I can to keep myself from seeming even slightly amusing. So I knew sooner or later they’d send someone to me, just to get the job done and get rid of me.”

“That’s what you thought I was?”

“I should have known,” she said, glancing over her shoulder to look at the three of them. “No prince would travel in such… company.”

“What’s wrong with my company?” Conrad couldn’t help but ask.

“Only one servant and a little pet?” she said. Argus growled at the suggestion that he was little. “I try to stay out of their way, but these two are hardly the kind of companions a prince would choose.”

She stopped at the edge of an atrium. After rounding the corner she ran her hand over the wall until she found what she was looking for. She turned to Conrad and pressed her hand against the wall. “Here,” she said. “Touch your hand to this place.”

Conrad looked at the wall. There was no outline of a door here. “How did you know this is where the lift is?” he asked.

She swept her palm over the wall. “The human hand is more sensitive than you’d think,” she said. “It can feel and find patterns and words by touch alone. If you know what you’re trying to find, then you will know how to find it by touch alone. The Satori have no intentions of letting their guests run amok in the upper palace. They hid the lifts and many of the doors, so only they would know how to travel in this place.”

“How did you learn all this?”

A smile tugged at her lips. “I’ve spent two years here,” she said. “I had to find something to do while I shirked my responsibilities.”

Conrad pressed his hand to the invisible panel. It pierced his skin and the lift opened.

“We’re going up,” she declared, entering the lift. “Excepting guards, only those who can reach the level of the general audience chamber have clearance to go down to the archives.”

The lift halted and the doors opened. Jira turned to them, her back to the door. “This is as far up as the lift goes,” she said. “This is the main floor—where the Imperial family holds court, and where all the Satori, as well as the Fleet admirals and commanders and all their ilk, congregate.

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