The Ultimatum by Susan Kearney

Author:Susan Kearney [Kearney, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780765354488
Published: 2006-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Kirek didn’t have much time. Lataka expected him to find her by the waterfall, but in the meantime, he would search this corridor of Drik’s residence. Luckily, Drik mostly posted guards to keep people from entering and leaving, so with his guards congregated on the perimeter, once one was inside the building, moving about was relatively easy—as long as Kirek avoided the Endekian women in Boktai.

Ever since he’d found the Rystani glow stone, he’d intended to search the only corridor where Drik always posted guards. If Dora, his computer teacher, had been mere, she could have entered and changed the system in seconds, but it had taken Kirek two days to find a back door and then an override code in the residence’s program. Hopefully, no one had noticed he’d reassigned the guards from their station in the corridor to other duties during the time he planned to search. Hence, the corridor he sought was temporarily empty and the computer modifications couldn’t be traced back to Kirek—or so he believed.

Taking care that no one followed, Kirek slipped down the hall, wary and watchful. Although the guards followed their routine, one order from Drik could change everything. Although so far his captive status had been mostly pleasant, Kirek was all too aware that Endekians had a long and violent history that included torture.

While Xander had never mentioned his boyhood capture by the Endekians who invaded Rystan, Etru had spoken of Xander’s extraordinary bravery. The Endekians had repeatedly shot painful volts of electricity through him in an attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of his hiding people. Xander had not talked. After the Terran, Tessa, had rescued him, Xander had killed one of his torturers, taking a full-grown Endekian warrior’s life before he’d grown to full manhood.

Although the Verazen’s captain never spoke of the incident, Kirek had once gone to Xander’s quarters to awaken him with a message from the bridge. When Xander hadn’t answered, Kirek had entered and found his captain thrashing in a nightmare. Kirek had never forgotten Xander’s inhuman grunts of pain or the wild look in his eyes when he’d awakened and the miserable seconds it had taken for him to regain control.

The Endekians had treated Xander with brutal savagery and Kirek reminded himself the incident had taken place merely a decade ago. He doubted the Endekian way of dealing with their enemies had changed in such a short time. And as he padded naked down the corridor, he remained fully alert, lest the same thing happen to him.

If Drik’s men caught him—there would be no rescue. Kirek was the only Rystani on Endeki. As he ducked into the critical corridor, he hoped whatever he found outweighed the risk he was taking. But he had to know more about the glow stone.

After a thorough search of Drik’s private computer in his office, Kirek had found nothing useful. There had been no mention of the glow stone. No mention of the real reason Endeki had invaded Rystan.

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