All Enemies Foreign and Domestic (Kelly Blake series) by Smith Rodney

Author:Smith, Rodney [Smith, Rodney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-11T07:00:00+00:00

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The queen prepared herself. It was almost time for the morning shift to come on duty. There was a four in five chance that the K’Rang keeper would enter her chambers with food while the outer door was also open. That was when she would make her escape. She did not know where the outer door led, except to a long corridor, but she would chance it. She was tired of the inane questions and of this room. She needed to see an open sky above her again even if she could no longer fly. She was supposed to be ruler of a world – not a kept toy of these bipeds.

Her ability to plot her escape was aided significantly when they replaced the mirrored wall with a clear one for an exhibition for a large group of the furry and not furry bipedal scientists. She hated it. It was like she was a trained animal on display and, in truth, she was. She started watching her watchers and learning their habits, mistakes, and quirks. It was almost time. She had been ready for days, waiting for the conditions to be right.

The outer door opened. Here comes the feeder. Her door started to open and she sprang. She ran over the feeder and was through the outer door before anyone could react. She heard alarms go off around her and panicked bipeds screaming and running before her. They had cards with sensors that automatically opened the doors as they approached, and as they ran away from her they provided the path for her escape.

She ran down hallway after hallway, looking for a path to outside. If she could get outside she would see how far away she could get. She even toyed with the idea of escaping and colonizing this planet. She could hear the sounds of panic subsiding behind her. The path ahead of her was starting to clear of bipeds.

She grabbed one of the bipeds with her mandibles, a female from the way it dressed, and carried it to open doors. The close pursuit she had sensed getting nearer now held back. An added benefit, she thought. She came to a set of double doors and held the biped up to them. They opened and she saw sunshine. She dropped the biped and dashed through only to skid to a halt on the highly polished floor.

The room was circular and obviously some type of gathering room. Tables and chairs covered most of the floor space, but for the clear area where she stood. She looked up in despair. The view was that of a far off planet with seas and land and clouds. She was in space. She could not colonize a vacuum. The bipeds had thought of everything. How was she to get away now? She stopped and waited for them to come in and recapture her. She lay in the full sunlight and at least felt its warmth for the few moments of freedom she had left.

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