Wrath of an Angry God: A Military Space Opera (The Sentience Trilogy Book 3) by Gibson Michaels

Author:Gibson Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Publisher: Arc Flash Publishing
Published: 2015-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

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The Raknii Imperial Planet of Raku

May 17, 3868

Xior awoke to find his heir, Drix, at his bedside. Xior was momentarily startled at seeing another wearing the rank-stones of the supreme-master, as he’d not seen such since his own sire wore them before Xior had ascended to the supreme-mastery himself.

“How are you feeling, sire?” asked Drix.

“Feeling? Actually, I feel pretty good, for being dead,” chucked Xior. “Why did you not kill me, as I commanded you?”

“Hal was extremely confident that he could concoct new drugs that would both alleviate your pain and arrest the progress of your disease, thereby extending your life,” replied Supreme-Master Drix. “He also believes that, with time, he may also discover a means by which your condition may be cured entirely.”

“You entrusted my life to an enemy alien?”

Drix snorted. “Why not? You were ordering me to kill you anyway. Where there is life, there’s hope, and even a slight hope is better than no hope at all.”

“Why did you not tell me of this before? Before I ordered my own death and relinquished the supreme-mastery?”

“Hal told me that his new drugs would leave you incapacitated, as you’d be very weak and your mental processes degraded,” replied Drix. “He said that arresting the disease would require long periods of almost total rest and that stress had to be minimized for the treatment to work. He believed that the continuing burden of your office would aggravate your condition and threaten the effectiveness of the treatment.”

“Understandable,” mused Xior, nodding. “You knew that I would have never neglected my duties, even to save my own life.” Xior paused a moment and shook his head before continuing.

“Still it was a bit of a shock, momentarily thinking I had woken up ‘on the other side’ and discovered that Dol looks just like Varq.”

Drix laughed. “Yes, I can see how that might have been somewhat disconcerting for a moment. Are you feeling up to having visitors?”

“Visitors? More of the OverMaster brotherhood?”

“Not quite,” chucked Drix. With that, he nodded towards Varq, who then opened the door. N’raal entered carrying little Eryx, who immediately squirmed out of his dam’s arms and scurried into his grand-sire’s lap.

Xior laughed with unabashed glee, as he roughhoused with his grand-cub, but was startled when N’raal approached and said, “It is good to see you feeling better, sire of my mate.”

“You can see me?” Xior asked in astonishment.

“Of course I can see you,” N’raal stated, perplexed at such a ridiculous question. “Why would I not see you?”

“But that means…”

“Yes,” chuckled Drix. “Exactly... she’s always been able to see Varq too. That little surprise almost got me killed, the night Eryx was conceived.”

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