The Forever Watch: A Novel by David Ramirez

Author:David Ramirez [Ramirez, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781250033826
Google: Q8pnAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1250033810
Goodreads: 18665264
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Glowing with red fire, drawing all the power the amplifier can. She knows it can only end this way. She unlocks everything she is.

Drawing this much psi, her bruiser’s body works differently. She is at another level from most of the Inspectors at the precinct. It’s why she made captain so young. Rather than the pounding heart and roaring blood and adrenaline and searing breaths and jagged, flaring pulses of sense organs into the brain that she knows is the experience for most of her coworkers, her body becomes slow and still, her mind empty and quiet. Each breath is an eternity. And the moment between each heartbeat is peace.

She pulls herself from the crater in the wall, folding the thin, ragged edges back. She missed. How could she have missed? He was not even lit up yet.

Time is so slow, the sounds she hears are distorted, the input from her eyes is dim. It has taken long years of practice to understand the world around her when she is this deep in her battle trance.

The low, rumbling vibrations through the air are words. His words. “Miyaki Miura was my friend. I don’t know who you are. I do know why you’re here.”

He is too dangerous to waste precious seconds talking to.

There is no talking anymore. He lights up too. They are two suns circling each other in a decaying orbit. The ground shudders, cracks with their footsteps.

She is still faster than he is, but not by much. She slips her head to the side, and that great big block of iron that is his fist just brushes her cheek. That slight contact cuts her skin, bruises the flesh beneath, even with the stone-hardened effect of being charged up on so much energy.

Baton in one hand, knife in the other, she spins by and strikes. She swings the club, it clips his elbow—and shatters. That club is made of one of the toughest grades of plastech, the result of a newer processing method. He swings with that arm again, and now she knows that the Psyn works on him and it is bad. He is much stronger than normal.

He is snarling, and hissing. She has long known of his beast. He never brought it out before in their sparring matches against each other. She always beat him, before this.

Now there is no time even for thought.

Another step in and she is inside his range. She must stay close because of his reach. She steps past him and kicks the back of his left knee. It gives, but only slightly. She thrusts the knife into his kidney, and the tempered, chisel point easily punches through the thickened plates of plastech of his coat to reach the flesh underneath, only for the blade to stop mere millimeters into him, catching on the dense energies of his flesh without reaching his abdominal cavity.

She ducks under another swing of his arm, dances backward.

Then she dives in again, into the whirling wind of his hands clawing at her.

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