The Topaz Operation: The Lights of Zoain Book Two by Jared Sizemore

Author:Jared Sizemore [Sizemore, Jared]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Qusam stood, staff raised in a defensive position, with his back to Sienna in the main room. He closed his eyes and meditated as best he could to ascertain what type of threat they were facing. It did not feel good.

Sienna sang a quick song and tapped her staffs at the foot of the library door. A slithering mass of vines and vegetation converged on the door, covering it to provide at least some camouflage. “Something’s not right.”

“That much is certain,” said Qusam.

“What I mean is...something feels very odd about this raid.”

“By the way, you do have an escape plan, correct?”

“Just follow me when the time is right. I have underwater breathing apparatuses if needed.”

“That’s why I admire you.”

A gust of wind blew down the door to the waterfall room. Birds fluttered in around Sienna. She ran into the room.

“Wait!” said Qusam, then went after her.

Birds, lizards, and frogs filtered through the holes in the ceiling, the birds flapping their wings in a panic. The wind stirred up to a blustery, violent pitch. Sienna tapped both her staffs and sang a calming tune. The wind and the birds’ wild flapping calmed.

An explosion busted open the vegetation wall doors and a dozen troops poured into the room. The python from the center tree flung itself from the branches and wrapped itself around the squad leader. He yelled and went to the ground, wrestling with the snake, but the snake held firm. A cluster of six red sea sloths leapt out from the waterfall onto separate troops and latched themselves in between pieces of body armor. The troops went down screaming and were quickly dead.

“You were right about those,” said Qusam.

Sienna held her staffs up high and sang. Qusam joined her. A wind stirred up in the room, picked up the remaining troops, and flung them upward through the ceiling holes back into the jungle crashing against various trees.

“This is child’s play,” said Sienna. “Where’s the real assault?”

“Be careful what you ask for.”

An explosion behind them blew ceiling debris all over the main room. Qusam and Sienna ducked through the doorway back into that room. Her pretty lights popped their last sparks of light in twenty different spots around the floor.

Through the smoke two metal staffs spun. A blast of air shoved Qusam and Sienna backward against the wall as a flurry of laser blasts simultaneously rained upon them. They recovered and spun their staffs, deflecting the blasts away, some of which struck the new set of attacking troops.

Two purple wizards emerged from the smoke, banging their staffs on the ground and spitting out wicked tunes. The chairs lifted up from the center of the room and sped toward Sienna.

She waved her staffs and the chairs crashed away from her against the doorway. “What do you want, oh singers of despair? Whatever it is, you will not find it here.”

“Your time has come, mistress of secrecy,” said the Qesem on the left. His voice sounded younger and smoother, without the usual raspy-ness characterizing his type.

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