The Last Child by Troy Osgood

Author:Troy Osgood [Osgood, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barking Fire Publishing
Published: 2018-05-25T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Why me?

Kahlia signed at me from where she lay on the bed in her room.

“I don’t know kiddo,” I said pulling the blanket up around her. “But I promise you that we’ll find out when we get you home.”

What is happening to me?

She held up one of her hands and looked at the remnants of the blue blood that was around her nails. Once we had gotten back to the ship, and that had taken a while, I had cleaned her up the best I could. She had woken from the stun blast midway to the ship, which was a surprise. That blast should have had her out for hours. So far everything seemed fine, no lasting effects from the blast.

“I don’t know but we’re figure it out,” I replied and it felt weak, inadequate. I brushed a loose strand of hair from her check. “Get some rest. Next stop is Turesa.”

I stood up as she turned on her side and closed her eyes. She’d be asleep in no time. The stress from the short fight and flight as well as still shaking off the effects of the stun blast, would have her out. But it wouldn’t be a restful sleep.

As I walked out of her room, I turned the light off, and headed for the bridge.

We were already in wildspace, our first hop would take three hours. I had laid her in the lounge well I got us out of Dynuit Station. I had carried her through the back corridors and out a door midway around the station. I’d managed to get to the lifts without drawing attention but it was a nerve racking walk. Couldn’t move too fast, had to carry Kaylia in a way that wouldn’t draw the eye, and had to keep my eyes out for the other Garand and any other hunters that might be around. Finally had managed to get to the lift and down to the docking ring. She’d woken up as we were in the lift. Groggy, she hadn’t been scared at waking in the changed surroundings so I had been able to explain what happened.

Once on the ship I had to get Dock Control to give me an immediate departure slot. That took a bit of doing and convincing. Half an hour later, the first hop calculated and we were out of that system. That’s when I finally managed to put Kaylia to bed.

I wanted to go back to the galley and grab an ale but as we flew out of the system I had noticed a message had come in on the Feed well we were on the station and avoiding bounty hunters. Now that Kaylia was resting, I could view it.

Putting the headset on, so the noise wouldn’t carry out of the bridge, I hit the play button.

The vidscreen filled with the head of a man, human. Much older than me, hair all gray with brown eyes. The hair was close cut, a military style, and he wore the uniform of an Earth Expeditionary Forces officer.

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