Superdreadnought 5 by C H Gideon

Author:C H Gideon [Gideon, C H]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-03-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The Voice arrived on Aspar, to learn that what he’d been told was only part of the story.

It hadn’t been the Federation crew who’d brought about Jora’nal’s death and the destruction of the cult’s place on the planet, but Jora’nal himself.

The Voice growled when he learned that, wondering if his master already knew what had happened. What would he tell him now?

That their own disciple had been the cause of losing both the SD Reynolds and their foothold on the planet?

He didn’t look forward to speaking with his lord again, but it would happen soon whether he wanted to or not.

First, however, he would learn all he could about what transpired here on Aspar before he reached out to Phraim-’Eh.

The Voice drew in a slow, deep breath and let it linger in his lungs until the char began to burn. Then he let it out, staring down the destruction left behind by Jora’nal.

“Fool,” he mocked the disciple in absentia. “You deserved worse.”

The Voice marched over the wreckage, grateful that the powers that be of Asparian society cared little about the execution of law and order. Jora’nal’s death had been justice as far as they were concerned.

The loss of the cult’s headquarters and disciples and resources here mattered little to the ruling elite of Aspar. They only cared that it wouldn’t happen again, so they had banned the cult from settling again or rebuilding in the wake of the catastrophe.

Phraim-’Eh would not appreciate that, and the Voice was sure his master would rain down judgment upon the rulers of Aspar, but it likely wouldn’t be soon.

The Voice’s master was consumed with destroying the Federation spawn of Bethany Anne, the AI superdreadnought who had wrought such harm to his plans of expansion.

No, Phraim-’Eh would chase the sentient ship to the ends of the universe before he calmed enough to deal retribution for such petty grievances as Aspar evicting them.

But when he did return, the elite of Aspar would rue their decision. They’d be so much ash, such as what the Voice trod upon now. There would be no mercy or compassion shown in Phraim-’Eh’s vengeance.

The Voice thrilled at the idea, imagining what his master would do to exact his revenge.

He only prayed he remained alive to witness it.

As things were, there was little hope of that.

The Voice traversed the scorched blocks that had been part of a city until just recently, and he came upon the blast point where Jora’nal had made his final ill-advised stand against the Federation agents.

There’d been no word as to their condition, but common sense told the Voice that Reynolds and his people had survived the blast or the SD Reynolds would have remained nearby to deal with such a tragic loss.

The timeline the locals had given him largely confirmed that.

The explosion here on the planet had occurred first, followed by the destruction of the Pillar in space. That made him think Reynolds and the others had slipped away without issue, though given the ruin of the neighborhood, he couldn’t imagine how they’d managed that.

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