Shooting Eros - The Emuna Chronicles: Book 1: Hell-bent (Shooting Eros Series) by Benjamin Laskin

Author:Benjamin Laskin [Laskin, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781500186715
Publisher: Aretê Books
Published: 2017-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

“Did you get that?” I whispered excitedly.

“Kohai, shh! Wait.”

“Sorry.”

“Yes, I got it.”

We waited until Sett and the judge were out of view, then we toned down our cloaking enough to be able to see one another, though to others we would appear, if at all, as a kind of shimmering heat wave.

We sat down on the cool grass at the edge of the lake. The ducks Judge Minos had been feeding were already paddling away. Aware that our voices could carry a long distance, we continued our conversation in thought mode.

“They are going ahead with the match, Captain Volk.”

“That is not a surprise, Kohai.”

“But what if Captain Cyrus was right; that this match is wrong?”

“There’s nothing we can do about that now.”

“Nothing?”

“Nothing.”

“But nothing is such a big word, Captain. I mean, there is always something.”

“You heard the man. There’s a new sheriff in town. From now on we work for Commander Sett.”

“But what about our training? You’re not going to stop training me, are you? I don’t like Commander Sett. I want to continue with you!”

“I’ll speak to him and see what we can arrange. But don’t be surprised if he puts us out of business.”

“Well, this just sucks!” I sprang to my feet and paced in an angry circle.

I spotted a smooth, flat stone on the ground, picked it up, and whipped it skimming across the water. One, two, three, four…eighteen skips before it sank into the lake.

“Not bad, Kohai.”

“Darn it, I wish Captain Cyrus would have just gone ahead with that stupid match. Then we’d all still be together.”

“But he didn’t, and so we will just have to deal with the facts.”

“Yes, Sir…” I said, sitting back down beside him. “Captain Volk?”

“What is it, Kohai?”

“You knew Captain Cyrus better than anyone. Say he did arrive in one piece. Say he is still in command of his faculties. And, say he does remember why he was sent there. All that being so, do you think that he would just sit on his hands?”

“As opposed to what?”

“As opposed to trying to stop Sett or anyone else who tried to complete this match. After all, if Captain Cyrus felt that this was something so important that he’d surrender his angelic life for it, doesn’t it make sense that he would do whatever he could down there to stop this match?”

“He’s a mere human now, Kohai. What could he do?”

I shrugged. “Fight.”

Volk chuckled. “A lone man against all of Heaven and Hell? One lowly mortal to take on every man, yetzer, and cupid in the universe?”

“Yeah.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. What would you do if you were in his situation, Captain? Would you just give up and let the whole world slip into a loveless pit of darkness? I don’t think so. Not as long as you had a flicker of life left in you.”

Captain Volk didn’t reply for a long moment. He was thinking, but he blocked me from reading his thoughts. I didn’t know we could do that, and so realized that I still had much to learn about this new power.

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