The Complete Warlord Trilogy: An Aeon 14 Collection by M. D. Cooper

Author:M. D. Cooper [Cooper, M. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2018-07-12T22:00:00+00:00

THE END OF DAYS

STELLAR DATE: 01.19.8512 (Adjusted Gregorian)

LOCATION: Revenence Castle

REGION: Persia, Midditerra System

Katrina was certain that she’d never felt wearier than she did at that moment. Once she’d stayed awake for over one hundred hours—which felt like the best time of her life, compared to this.

The guard—she had no idea who it was, it could have been a ten-year old girl shoving her around, and she wouldn’t be able to resist—gave another push, and Katrina stumbled onward.

One foot in front of the other; she kept her focus on that, and what meager amount of balance she could manage. Stones on the gravel road dug into her feet, though at least she couldn’t feel the burning heat anymore. The soles of her feet were in too much agony to tell that pain apart from any other.

She gave herself three more days of this before she died. Maybe less.

Of course, Malorie wouldn’t let it come to that—she hoped. If Katrina died, all the tech in her body would erase her data stores and destroy itself. She’d be back on the table before long, getting stitched back together like the frankenstein monster she was.

It had been many days, nineteen to be exact, since Juasa had been taken from her. To Katrina, it felt like it had been a lifetime. The beatings and abuse, so many delivered by Juasa’s own hands, had begun to take their toll on her spirit.

Her love for Juasa was still a flame in her heart, but it was miniscule next to the rage that had begun to build within her. The next time she was on the medtable, she’d not pussyfoot around. Katrina would disable the collar, no matter how much it hurt, and then kill those miserable techs.

Then she’d find Anna and kill her too, followed by Malorie and Jace. They’d all die, along with anyone who got in her way.

A voice in the back of her mind brought up the deal she’d made with Anna—but the bitch hadn’t come through. She’d raised Katrina’s hopes, that one day with the cream, and then followed it up by making Juasa beat her.

No, Anna was dead. The woman was unredeemable, and Katrina would leave her corpse for the crows.

She tripped on a small stone and stumbled, landing hard on her knees and hands. The pain was excruciating, or it should be, but Katrina couldn’t separate it from the rest of the agony crushing her mind.

Somehow she found a new reserve of strength and stood up, elated at her own fortitude for a moment—until she realized that the guard had picked her up by her hair.

“You’re heavy for such a scrawny thing,” he grunted.

Katrina didn’t respond, but resumed her focus on her feet. Left, drag it forward, shift weight. Right, drag forward—avoid that sharp rock—shift weight.

Then something hit her in the side.

At first she thought it was a blow from the guard, but it didn’t hurt as much as the overseer’s massive fists usually did.

Then something else struck her on the other side.

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