Birthright of Scars by Laurisa Brandt
Author:Laurisa Brandt [Laurisa Brandt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laurisa Brandt
Published: 2023-01-09T00:00:00+00:00
The drive back to Kotiâs was twice as long, yet it failed to erode the pain. Disrel scrubbed the filth from his shoes behind the house a while longer, while Koti went in ahead to unlock the basement door from inside. Disrel stepped in and pushed the flute against his friendâs chest.
âGive this to Solla for me. Please. I canâtââ
Koti pushed it back. âTake your time. Iâll make sure no one comes down here.â
âIâm going to need more than time.â
The pain must have been glaring from his face, because Koti actually took the flute. Disrel didnât regret going, but he regretted underestimating how it would affect him. He shook his head and turned a circle, raking his fingers through his hair.
âIâll probably sit here until Doni leaves.â
Koti headed up the stairs. Muffled voices discussed his absence for a moment, then dropped away on a note of sadness.
Disrel tottered around the edge of the pool, rubbing his face, feeling like the worldâs greatest coward, and trying to wash Pyron suffering from his mind. The faces of starving children burned in his mindâs eye like afterimages, grotesque and neon. The young womanâs cries haunted him. He wanted to jump on his corecycle and drive all the way back to search for her, to fight for her, but was she even alive now? The men would be gone. He didnât blame Koti, either. There was nothing either of them could have done that wouldnât have resulted in their deaths. He scratched his chest and sighed, feeling like the blind elderâs touch was still there, comforting somehow.
He pulled the chip from his pocket and stared at its grooved edge. It seemed made for glass and light, like a holoposter chip. Then he remembered that Koti had a screen in the reading room.
Disrel went into the next room, pushed the chip into the port at the base of a glass mounted on the wall, and dialed up the light. A vibrant portrait filled the entire glass surface, bordered by streams of text. Five words seemed out of place from all the rest, glaring, contradictory one to another: âHis Supremacy, Lord Callon Gault.â
Disrelâs face pinched. This wasnât Cinnabarâs visage. Wasnât this the name and face of the empireâs highest-ranking military officer? General Gault? His jaw loosened as he stepped back, understanding the poster with fresh eyes. Of course. The reason five sables were condemned to hang. Cinnabarâs general was preparing to announce his ascent to the throne via billboards and holoposters. The dip-shouldered man must have been one of Gaultâs henchmen, picking up a Pyron-made assassination weapon. Disrel rubbed his coarse jaw. So Pyron was to be blamed for Cinnabarâs assassination.
But what if this news was released earlier than scheduled? What if Cinnabar kept his throne and remained unable to trust anyone?
Mored needed to know. Disrel plucked the chip from the screen and plunged out the basement door to the open garage. He donned his helmet, mounted his corecycle, and pushed off down the long drive.
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