Sun by J C Andrijeski

Author:J C Andrijeski [Andrijeski, J C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Indie, Romance, scifi
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2018-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

WE LEFT THE womblike opening a few seconds later.

Outside that smaller fissure in the rock, Dalai and Illeg continued to stand guard, guns raised. Stanley and Holo waited for us by the rock wall. When we told them we were leaving, they looked nothing but relieved. When I said we’d be going to the United States to meet up with the rest of our team, I thought they might break out into a cheer.

It was the most relieved and happy I’d seen any of them in weeks.

Better yet, no Mythers were yet knocking down our door. No one had been waiting for us when we left the cave––or the stone corridor after that.

The waterfall pounded on, oblivious.

None of us saw anything with our light, or picked up any new presences watching us.

Even so, I felt the absence of Varlan’s light keenly as we all climbed back on the raft.

Now we were pulling ourselves back across the lake in the dark. I wiped the last of the blood off Revik’s face, and he held my hand. None of us had spoken much since we boarded the raft. Stanley, Illeg and Holo did most of the work pulling us across the lake. Dalai sat at the front, our one working rifle raised to her shoulder and aimed towards shore.

Through Revik’s light, I saw Balidor and Cass doing more or less what Revik and I were, with Balidor cleaning up cuts and scrapes on Cass from where I’d been forced to drag her across the cave floor, and Cass looking him over for injuries in the dark, her fingers careful as she explored his face and chest.

Again, I didn’t notice I was watching them until someone broke the silence.

“Where are we going now?” Holo said, slightly out of breath. He didn’t stop pulling hard on the rope, bringing us closer to the far shore as he spoke in a clipped voice. “I don’t mean America. I mean right now. Do we find Atwar and his people? Or just look for a boat or a plane and get the fuck out of here?”

Pausing, I felt him looking at me and Revik in the dark.

“We don’t need to stay here anymore, do we?” he said. “I mean, what good is intel on the Mythers? We already know what they want. They want us dead. They’re trying to end the world. They want to kill everyone who’s not part of their fanatical religion.”

Via Revik’s light, I saw Holo’s muscles strain as he yanked on the rope.

I’d already noticed we were heading back over the lake a lot faster than we’d gone in the other direction. Holo, Illeg and Stanley definitely felt motivated.

Feeling flickers of claustrophobia stealing back over Revik’s light, I knew they weren’t the only ones. All of us wanted to get out of there, truthfully.

But that didn’t exactly answer Holo’s question.

I looked at Revik through the dark, feeling him frown, feeling him think about Holo’s words. I felt him trying to separate out his

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