The Splitting (The Matsumoto Trilogy Book 2) by Sarah K.L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K.L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2017-01-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

I awoke feeling groggy and strange. There was a bitter taste in my mouth. I was supposed to be thinking about something important, but I couldn’t remember what it was. I was being held by strong arms and maneuvered out onto a ledge of rock over an endless black pit of shadows. The walls of the pit shone with their own iridescence. It was hundreds of meters deep. There was a platform with machinery that jutted out over the pit and the ledge was on the end of this platform. There were two cots, or stretchers, with restraints. It was towards these that I was being maneuvered.

Danger! Danger! Something in me was screaming. I tried to fight the people holding me up as my gut insisted that everything was wrong. I could barely move my limbs. They whipped around sporadically, not obeying my commands.

“Get her in the restraints before she breaks something.”

I was spun around and strapped in. The stretcher was angled upwards and my head was at the top, giving me a great view of what they were doing. They led a still-unconscious Driscoll towards me. The threat had to do with him, too. I remembered that. They strapped him on the other angled stretcher. I struggled for thought. It was important. I had to think.

Roman. I’m in trouble.

No, that wasn’t right. There was no Roman here.

Help...

I called out weakly through my implant, my lips still unable to form words. As my strength slowly increased, so did my cries.

Help.

Help!

HELP!

I could feel that abysmal echo I’d been hearing ever since I arrived on Baldric, but there was no reply.

Doctor Daniels emerged from the shadows and turned on some bright portable lights that threw everything around them into blackness and everything under them into a terrifying starkness. I wanted to shut my eyes.

My memory came back with shocking suddenness. Oh yes, he was planning to cut into my skull while I was still alive and remove my implant and then put it in Driscoll’s head. We would both be conscious while he did it. Of the many ways I could have, and maybe even should have, died over the last months, this was the most horrifying. I shuddered, thrashing against my bonds.

“Inject her with this. I can’t operate if she’s moving,” Dr. Daniels said, his voice snapping with irritation.

HELP!

We’re coming...

My eyes widened. Had someone answered me? Or was I deluding myself?

Reynolds hovered over me with a syringe in his hand. Funny that it was him and not some underling about to do the honors.

“Will it hurt them?” The voice was Ian’s. He must have helped them carry us here.

“Don’t worry,” Daniels said, distractedly, “It won’t happen to you. These two are dangerous, and the girl has something we need.”

Whatever Reynolds gave me paralyzed me completely. I was going to die with drool pouring out of my mouth, unable to close my eyes, or to scream when the pain finally came. I wanted to scream in panic, but it was too late.

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