Sorrow's Fall by Helen Allan

Author:Helen Allan [Allan, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648455950
Publisher: Hell West Press
Published: 2019-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

7

“Judge, if you are going to do this, do it now!” Sorrow shouted as the lasers continued to fire directly at them where they sat, strapped into the control room of the spacecraft, and a much larger, cannon-like weapon was wheeled into place by the Gharial airport guards.

“I’m getting there,” he gritted, as the spacecraft hovered just above the ground for an interminable time before shooting straight up into the air and crashing through the roof of the hangar.

For a second Sorrow closed her eyes as the craft careered left, then hard right and looked like it was about to slam into the ground before Judgment regained control at the last minute and shot them into the clouds.

“Impressive flying,” Raphael snorted, once they were clear of the laser cannon fire from the ground.

“Shut up,” Judge growled, turning the craft a hard right, in the opposite direction to the mountain retreat the resistance had once used as their base.

Etienne, his knuckles white where they gripped his chair, looked across at Sorrow and shook his head.

“Trust Judge, you said. He knows how to remove torcs, you said, he knows how to fly, you said.”

“We are in the sky, aren’t we?” Sorrow frowned, “and your neck is free of the torc.”

“Yes, and your little friend the chauffeur is free of this world,” he shook his head once more and turned his face from her, ostensibly looking out the windscreen as they flew.

Sorrow swallowed hard. Etienne was right, this plan was half-baked at best, and she had trusted, once again, in Judgment without seeking all the details of his strategy. But they were free, and they did have a spaceship now – so not all was lost.

“So, tell me,” Raphael said, trying to lighten the mood, “how exactly did you get the information out of the hag about how to remove the torcs?”

“I didn’t,” Judge muttered, concentrating on his flying.

“I beg your pardon?” Etienne asked quietly, his voice deadly.

“I said, I didn’t.”

“Then how did you know to use the atomiser.”

“A hunch.”

“Are you saying you risked our lives on a hunch?” Etienne growled.

Judgment shrugged. “You wanted to leave The Finger. One way or the other you were going to leave, either in a casket, roasted by a dragon…the options were endless. I figured you were willing to take the chance.”

“Wait,” Sorrow held up her hand, “you were supposed to fuck the information out of the goddess. What the hell were you doing all those hours?”

“I beat the information out of her,” he shrugged, “what little information she had. Then I took a long bath.”

Etienne and Raphael shared a worried look, Sorrow said nothing for a moment, sickened. She knew she had risked the lives of both her friends with her blind trust of Judgment, and even though he had come through and rescued them, there was a lesson to be learned here. They were still expendable as far as he was concerned.

“So, wait,” she said quietly, “when you shot the torc off the chauffeur, and

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