Unyielding (Out of the Box Book 11) by Robert J. Crane

Author:Robert J. Crane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Revelen Press
Published: 2016-11-22T07:00:00+00:00

48.

Scott

It wasn’t easy to pick her out of the darkness, a tiny figure falling on a barely lit sky. It was after dark, but the moon was out, and that shadow looked to Scott a little like a bird dropping. If he hadn’t had metahuman vision, he might not even have seen her, but see her he did, plummeting as another explosion—smaller and less violent than they looked in the movies—lit off next to her.

“She is getting peppered,” J.J. reported with faint glee, laptop sitting across his knees in the back of the helo. The Great Salt Lake was right out there, and they were hovering in place, waiting to see which way she went. Scott just stared, watching her fall, because it was starting to look an awful lot like this hunt and kill mission was about to simplify into a corpse recovery operation.

“And a-salted,” Friday guffawed.

You can’t let her die, a small voice sounded in Scott’s head.

That’s our job. Kill her.

He ignored the second voice, peering at the falling shadow in the distance. She was coming down hard, not even trying to fly, and it wasn’t because Booster was draining her. She’d been blasted by the missiles, he was pretty sure.

Scott grimaced, looking out of the corner of his eye. Reed’s face was lit by the cargo lights, a rough ecstasy etched on his expression as he watched her drop. That’s not normal, Scott thought, and it only seemed to reinforce his mutinous musings.

There was only one thing for it.

He didn’t bother to raise his hand, because that was just for show, really. He’d gotten beyond that now, simplified things. He concentrated hard on her, on her place in the air as she dropped out of the sky. There was moisture out there—thin, but present.

And it was his to control.

Scott reached out with his thoughts, bringing that moisture together. He could make it maintain position or move as he desired, and he desired to do both. He pulled it out of the air, small amounts, too subtle for anyone back here to see. It wasn’t much, but when he packed it solidly enough—

She slowed, almost imperceptibly. He had hands of solid water tugging at her, altering her speed, producing a little drag. He introduced a little more, then a little more, and though she fell, she was no longer gathering momentum. She’d slowed, was drifting—

“She’s awake, clearly,” Reed said. He lurched out of the helicopter, clutching his rifle, with no sign of hesitation. He lit off a three-shot burst the moment he was clear, even though he was nearly a mile away from where Sienna was falling.

“Dammit,” Scott said, jumping out of the copter after him. The lake was beneath him, so he didn’t fear the jump or the landing, only that it might steal some of his concentration away from the task at hand. He continued to slow her, trusting that Reed’s hastiness wouldn’t help him. M-16s weren’t accurate at this distance, were they?

His feet landed on

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