Soul Keeper by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Devine Destinies
Published: 2012-01-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Her voice was flat. "That is Heschell. I can't land on Heschell."

Panic rose in her throat as she replayed that drive from the holding centre to the spaceport, everyone around her filled with rage and fear.

Orenn's mind touched hers and he didn't send her calm, but his emotions were a brick to support her if she needed it.

Green was looking at her partner. Hardcore merely shrugged. "We aren't taking you down. Neither of us is sure we are immune and getting a suit to fit around Green's wings is a tricky proposition. We will hand you over to Guardian and Pax. They were the ones to summon you."

Zeyan looked down and saw Orenn's hand clasping her own. "Where are they?"

Green lifted one hand from the controls and pointed at the large object immediately in front of them.

"The Sanctuary is the largest Sector Guard ship so far. It belongs to Udell base for emergencies such as this, has a complete diagnostics lab as well as room for thousands."

It was part warship, part space station.

Zeyan had never seen anything like it before. While she took in the huge machine, Green got clearance for docking and brought them inside.

A silvery Guardsman and a woman with ivory hair met them in the docking bay. "Zeyan? I am Guardian, this is Pax. We need to brief you on the situation down below and commit to a plan of treatment."

She clung tightly to Orenn's hand and nodded for Guardian to lead the way.

"Nine days ago, a plague broke out on Heschell. It struck here and here." Guardian brought up a map and pointed at the Neduskar mountain range.

"I don't see how you think I can help."

Guardian pressed a button and a medical technician came into the boardroom with a selection of syringes.

"Our techs have come up with the means to immunize you. It will be effective against the strain within hours."

"Ah, because I am of Heschell."

"Guardian and I are both immune, but we can't guarantee immunity for any other races. Rupture is with Phase on crowd control outside the hospices. They were both able to take the shots with little side effect."

"Have you tested it on one of my kind?"

Guardian scowled and shook his head. "No. They have refused to allow us to test it, even though their population is falling to it exponentially as time passes. In a few days, only a handful will remain untouched."

Zeyan grinned. "I come from a stubborn and insular people."

"We have been trying to find the parent race so that we can run tests on samples, but no one on Heschell is cooperating. We have no idea how your folk originated, do you?"

The hiss of the hypo made her flinch, but the icy fluid creeping through her veins made her shake. "Uh, no. I am not aware of the specifics. I know we were a group of protestors who took to the stars but not sure where we came from. It is a closed section of our history."

Orenn held her hands as she started to twitch.

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