At the Threshold of the Universe (The Song of Kamaria Book 3) by T. A. Bruno

Author:T. A. Bruno [Bruno, T. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feathersong, LLC
Published: 2022-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SEVEN

Cade felt the familiar sensation of zero gravity rush over him. It was a welcome, nostalgic feeling, like walking through a playground from childhood. It reminded Cade of his former life as a human, an EVA specialist aboard the Maulwurf.

He didn’t care about the Shade walk. With his efforts thinning and time running out, his thoughts drifted to Zephyr Gale. She would have been glowing in this dark, her tattoos etched with a special ink that she could trigger at will to become luminescent. She was a supernova of beauty in a shadow.

What would she think of me now? Cade wondered. He looked down at his semi-translucent skin, knowing he was a skeleton of metal in the real world. A monster. He couldn’t bring himself to panic anymore. He was too numb now. There was no guarantee he’d stumble upon the secret of the corruption. He could just be watching reruns of a bunch of tragic endings. He wanted to give it all up, run home, and embrace Zephyr one last time before the inevitable annihilation consumed all humanity.

Cade recognized where he was. Although the walls were cleaner, and the damage of centuries underwater wasn’t present, the Devourer’s interior was the same. This was Dia—but this was not her memory.

The shuffle and drag of feet against metal caused Cade to turn. There he was, as he had initially looked when Cade met him: Antoni Herman. His parents called him Tony. Based on his appearance, years must have passed since the humans had fled the Sol System. Tony was only a little boy during the final days, but now he was roughly the same age as Cade.

Antoni shuffled past Cade and down the hall. The centipede robot that helped him stand upright clicked its many legs against the floor along with his dragging of weak feet. A dim red light lit the walls, glinting off the slick metal surrounding everything. Cade knew where Antoni was heading and followed.

After a short shuffle down the hall, the wall opened, and they were inside the hybrid lab, where Cade had worked in servitude of Auden’s will. Except for a large mechanical frame fused into the room’s far wall, the walls were bare. The tables had human corpses on them, each with a device on their head and in various states of dissection. Antoni didn’t seem to notice.

“Of course he doesn’t notice,” Cade sighed. He has the veil on his head. Antoni believes he’s helping build and maintain boats on a harbor.

A man emerged from the behemoth frame on the wall. Jonas Necrodore floated in zero gravity, then tapped a device on his arm that forced him to the floor. He was barefoot, wearing a skin-tight suit with wires and tubes connecting him to his frame on the wall. His feet made soft padding sounds on the metal floor. With a flick of his hand, the wall near him opened into a box shape, and a fire roared. It was cozy in an uncomfortable way.

“Brother Necrodore.

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