Stargate Atlantis: Third Path: Book 8 in the Legacy series by Melissa Scott & Jo Graham

Author:Melissa Scott & Jo Graham [Scott, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781905586707
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2015-07-15T22:00:00+00:00

John started up the steep ramp to Osir’s hatch, Teyla at his heels. There were armed guards just inside the hatchway, two men and a teenage girl, all grimly determined, and from directly overhead came a whine of overstressed servos. The ship’s guns, John guessed, trying to depress far enough to cover the party on the ground. He hoped to hell they didn’t spark a firefight before he could get a word with the Wolf. And what the hell he was going to say…

“I’m not asking him to give himself up to be killed,” he said, under his breath, and Teyla glanced up at him.

“No. But there must be some other way.”

Damned if I see it. John swallowed the words, plastered a smile on his face as he came level with the guards. “We’re here to talk to the Wolf.”

The three exchanged glances, and the girl said, “No, you can’t —”

“Let’s see what the Lanteans can do to get us out of this,” one of the men said, and put a hand on her shoulder.

The other man nodded. “This way.”

He led them through a series of cramped corridors, passing through hatchways and down a set of narrow spiral stairs until they reached what seemed to be a mess hall or some sort of communal space. It was crowded, women and children and a few adult men packed into the seats and crammed into corners on the floor, and John frowned, unable to work out what was going on. Their guide glanced back and shrugged.

“Women and kids. And the vital crew.”

The minimum crew needed to raise the ship. All huddled together in the safest part of the ship, in the hope that they could escape the first round of firing. John nodded.

“Through here.” Their guide ducked through a narrow hatch into a corridor lined with closed doors: residential cabins, John guessed. “This one.” He knocked on the metal without waiting for an answer. “Wolf! The Lanteans are here.”

There was a moment of silence, or what passed for silence in the creaking ship, and the hatch slid back. “What do they want?”

The man in the door froze, and John caught his breath. That was a face he had never expected to see again, no matter what he’d told the man’s family. Older now, his forehead higher, with a few early threads of gray in his close-cropped hair, the left eye still a black void, all pupil, from the Wraith enzyme: Aiden Ford, who he had last seen standing ready fight off an entire hive of Wraith. Aiden Ford, who had kidnapped him and McKay and Teyla and Ronon, drugged all of them except John himself with the Wraith enzyme and taken them on a suicide mission to destroy a Wraith hive. If McKay hadn’t managed to use the enzyme to overpower his guards so that he could escape to Atlantis and bring Daedalus to the rescue, they might all have died on the hive. John had been almost positive Ford had died there, covering their retreat.

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