The Prophet_Resurrection_A Sci-Fi Thriller by David Beers

Author:David Beers [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-08T22:00:00+00:00

Twelve

What are things looking like?

The First Priest wanted to spit right where he stood. It just so happened he was standing in front of the glass windows in Trinant’s office, still staring at the massacre beneath him. Feeling the building saliva in his mouth, the urge grew stronger, and so he looked down at the floor beneath him.

What do you think they’re looking like? he responded with his nanotech. These … creatures are still moving toward us. The One Path is completely incompetent. They can’t do anything to stop them.

He wanted to add, just like everyone on the First Council, but managed not to.

How much longer until the reinforcements arrive? he asked instead.

An hour, the First Council’s Priest told him.

One hour.

It was enough time.

Listen to me, the First Priest said. I want you to follow my directions perfectly. Not a single deviation, do you understand?

Yes, the Priest answered, though the First noticed he hadn’t used ‘Most Holy’. The Council was already thinking him dead, perhaps thinking the entire world dead with what was happening elsewhere. He didn’t care at all. When he got back to the True Faith, he would make sure that this Priest was dead, along with the rest of the Council.

The First remained still, staring up at the screen in front of him. His eyes glowed with green dots, the only indication that he was using his nanotech. For the first time in over a day, he finally looked calm. He explained to the Priest exactly what he wanted to happen; it took a little over ten minutes.

The light in the First Priest’s eyes died and he remained standing for another minute, not paying attention to anything on the screens above him. He was done with this place, even if everyone else here was determined to remain until their blood spilled across the office floor.

He turned around and looked at Trinant. The other two Ministers were here, but they no longer mattered. When this was all done, there would be one Ministry left, because the other three were completely fine with decapitation.

“I’m going higher,” the First Priest announced.

Trinant looked up from the tablet on her desk. Annoyance wore as heavily on her face as exhaustion, and again, the First Priest wanted to spit. Everything since arriving here had been horrible. This entire Ministry was nothing but a horror show, but the First had made many plans while sitting in here being treated as a second class citizen. One of them was that if Trinant survived, the First would ensure she didn’t live until old age.

Still, he couldn’t do anything about it just now.

“What do you mean, you’re ‘going higher’?” the woman asked.

“You all can sit here and wait for them to come get you, but I’m going higher up. As close to the top of this thing as I can.”

Trinant sighed. “There’s only machinery in the floors above us. There’s no protection in them. Our best chance of survival is the plan we’re following.”

“I don’t care,” the First said.

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