Titan's Fury: A Science Fiction Thriller (Children of Titan Book 4) by Rhett C. Bruno

Author:Rhett C. Bruno [Bruno, Rhett C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2019-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Malcolm

“Eat up, M-mudstomper,” Desmond cackled. He slid a bowl filled with grub into my cell so hard, it tipped over.

Weeks had passed since Rin found me huddled with Orson’s body. Maybe longer. She’d had to fight off her own people to stop them from beating me to death. I expected a public execution as punishment, but they’d dragged me right back to my cell.

I crawled to the bowl on four limbs like a beast, digging in with my hands until I realized what I looked like. I grabbed it and threw it at Desmond. It clattered against the bars while facing the wrong way and spilled all over me.

Desmond laughed. “Starve for all I care.”

“What?” I grumbled. “Your lunatic king doesn’t need me for any more hits?” Pain still pulled at my sore ribs from the beating I’d taken. If they weren’t fractured already, they were now. Desmond had been keeping his distance since I returned, but I was chipping away in our limited face-time. Pissing people off was what I was best at, and after that one time seeing Rylah, she’d never shown her face again. I’d started wondering if it was my old mind playing tricks on me.

“Whatever he’s p-p-planning to do with you, I’m sure it’ll be good,” Desmond said.

“Pervenio collectors have a special place in our hearts.”

“He doesn’t tell you anything, does he?” I realized then that I hadn’t heard any newsfeeds playing in the hollow. Even at his station, Basaam often complained about his lack of access to most corners of Solnet for data. Now I could barely hear him over the racket of whatever he and his team of Ringers and now Earther slaves were building. Desmond was locked away underground with us like a sick dog, a memory from a horrible thing that Kale didn’t want to be reminded of.

“All I know is that you’re gonna get w-what’s coming to you,” he said, his gaze momentarily shifting toward Basaam Venta’s busy workspace across the hollow. “All you mudstompers a-a-are.”

I wiped the muck off the bottom of my sanitary mask and dragged my impotent, cybernetic leg toward the bars, the electromag dampener reactivated.

“What? You think some magical engine built by an Earther is going to save all of you? It’s too late for that. The things you people have done, there’s no coming back from. It’s like you didn’t even learn from us.”

“There was nothing to learn.”

“I’ve seen this before. Protestors dig in until they’re at their wits’ end and then start killing each other. How long before he has me kill you just like he had me kill Orson Fring because he can’t stand to look at your face?”

“Not this time, G-Graves,” he said, sneering. “They told me to ignore you.”

“Because they know I might talk some damn sense! What do you think they removed me from my cell for, some coffee? A chat about how Earthers tick? I’m Kale’s collector now, and it’s more of the same, just lower pay.”

“N-n-no, not the same.

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