Starshot (The Skyward Saga Book 1) by A.R. Knight

Author:A.R. Knight [Knight, A.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Key Books
Published: 2018-10-19T06:00:00+00:00

32 No Hesitation

Sax only has a moment to think before the gateway opens. In that moment, hope and hunger mix with the sudden light to push him forward. He bounds past Bas, clenches his legs, and leaps towards Avan’s shadow.

The low gravity gives Sax plenty of lift, and he drops the miner as he glides through the air. He has no chance of hitting anything with it anyway, and the satisfaction of a laser is nothing compared to the visceral cutting of his claws.

The gateway doesn’t wait for Sax. It shunts open, sliding up into the wall of the seed ship, and reveals a waiting Sevora force. More Flaum, because the standard-issue troops are always there, but what catches Sax’s attention as he flies are the Slivers; worm-like things with gossamer wings that glow violet as they fly over Avan’s head.

Each of the four Slivers has, grafted onto their many legs, heat stingers: small lasers that, individually, are nothing more than annoying. Together, the simultaneous blasts can overwhelm a target’s nervous system. Send them twitching to the floor. Means the Sevora aren’t giving up on capturing the Oratus after all.

The Slivers, though, didn’t expect to see Sax flying through the air towards them, claws extended and ready to rend. He hits a Sliver before it has a chance to move, and Sax doesn’t even have to bite - his weight alone crumples the fragile creature and they both plummet towards the gateway floor.

Avan, and his new Flaum friends, notice. And, as Sax crashes down into their mix, they scatter. Sax doesn’t even get a swipe in at Avan before the captive Oratus is gone. Pressing through the Flaum and through the gateway.

Coward.

Sax would follow, but he’s otherwise occupied. The Flaum are overcoming their own surprise, turning their miners on Sax. Sitting still means a quick roasting at the hands of their lasers, so Sax moves.

Surrounding an Oratus at close range is like being in a razor blade tornado: Sax darts at a Flaum near the gateway, while his tail whips towards the Flaum left of that one. He digs his claws into fur, then leaps off to another one. Red bolts flash where he was, coupling with the green light of the gate and the filtering blue aura of the new section beyond to create a washed out strobe effect.

Sax barely registers the faces. The targets. Without the Stim, he can’t keep up with his own instinct, and simply responds to touch. To the tear of claw through cloth. To the thwack of his tail swatting another Flaum to the ground. It’s a massacre, a chaotic frenzy.

Until sudden burning drives Sax down.

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