StarCraft: Dark Templar--Twilight (Bk. 3) by Golden Christie

Author:Golden, Christie [Golden, Christie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2009-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

THE HORROR THAT RIPPLED THROUGH THE crowd was most satisfactory to Rosemary. Maybe at last she’d gotten their attention.

“Do not grow insolent, human,” Selendis warned.

“Listen,” Rosemary said, forging forward, “I know you all don’t want zerg here, or Ulrezaj, or anyone else who might cause harm to the protoss. I fought the zerg myself. I know what they are. I saw what they did to your world. But you have to find Zamara. She knows too much that can help you right now for you not to. And—I would ask you—to help Jake. It’s because of him that Zamara’s survived this long. He’s earned your help.”

Some of them were leaning toward her side, though for their own reasons. Urun—he was burning to take the fight to Aiur, just as Rosemary knew Selendis was. Artanis struck her as someone who could appreciate the power of ancient knowledge, as well as such an important link with the past. Too, he had met this Jim Raynor, and she sensed from him a liking toward her people. Tabrenus seemed almost disinterested; he represented a group of artisans and craftsmen, not politicians. Zekrath of the Shelak was utterly inscrutable to her, and there was something about the Ara and their leader that chilled her on some level she couldn’t quite articulate.

As for Mohandar, he was as unreadable as Zekrath. She didn’t expect aid from that quarter—it had been made clear to her that dark templar couldn’t have preservers, because they chose to separate themselves from the Khala. Likely as not, this guy might even be against them as a symbol of the “bad old Aiur” they sought to disconnect themselves from. And yet he was eyeing her steadily. She faced forward to Artanis, trying not to feel her skin crawl under that unblinking gaze.

“Vartanil,” Artanis said, “Your thoughts are welcome here. You stand by this human, and support her request to seek Zamara and the being who houses her. Speak now of this…and of the nightmare that is our old enemy Ulrezaj.”

Both Vartanil and Rosemary started at that. “Whoa, wait a minute…you all already know about Ulrezaj?” yelped Rosemary.

“We do indeed,” Artanis answered, his thoughts grimmer than any she had yet sensed from him. “Shortly after we scoured the zerg from Shakuras, we encountered him for the first time. He was not nearly as strong then. From what you have told us, he now has the unheard-of power of seven dark templar assassins.”

“So Zamara told us,” Vartanil replied.

“He attempted to attack Shakuras by positioning an orbital space station that emitted powerful energy waves. They disrupted our communication and drained Shakuras’s energy shields. Zeratul, a friend to the Aiur protoss and the one who offered us sanctuary on Shakuras, tried to convince Ulrezaj that old hatreds were best laid aside. But by then, Ulrezaj had already merged with three other protoss and had become the most powerful dark archon the dark templar had ever known.”

Rosemary snorted. “Four…you guys had it easy.”

“So it seems,” Artanis acknowledged. “And that is grievous knowledge.

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