Brink's End Book One by Bell Odette C

Author:Bell, Odette C.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Frost

Sometimes, she got a sixth sense. Now the Underside were assaulting her station almost monthly, she could appreciate that those senses had started increasing in velocity and frequency. It almost felt as if her brain was adapting on fast forward in a last-ditch attempt to give her a chance against the unwinnable.

Because in her cold moments, as she stood behind her portal, hands clamped into fists in her pockets, she appreciated this battle could not be won. If the Higher-Ups could not control the Underside, what chance did the Supreme Outer Guardians have? Yes, they had their energetic symbionts – Peacekeepers. Yes, they had each other. Yes, they had the stations, and as she’d already learned in one of her tales, they were far more mysterious than they seemed. But no, that did not mean they had all of the power of the Higher-Ups. And the Higher-Ups had done it again. They’d lost track of some world-destroying piece of technology.

If the Higher-Ups didn’t have a chance to stop the Underside, how could she help?

Frost’s skin crawled as she wondered exactly what planet out there was being beset by the reprogrammer.

She’d gone through the specifications of the reprogrammer with Fastion.

It had made her blood run cold.

A device that could alter the principles that underlined biological life in the quantum realm, if you knew what you were doing – and even if you didn’t – you could alter life. Permanently. In ways that it would never escape from. You could take a planet, change every single life form on it, and make them into pretty much anything you wanted.

It was like gaining the technology to rewrite matter. And while technically the stations had that, it was always inert matter.

You placed minerals and atoms into matter re-calibrators, and they would form pretty much anything you wanted. As long as it wasn’t alive.

This was the other side of that technology. As Frost got ready for a meeting, she gripped her hands into harder fists as she thought of the stakes, driving her nails into her palms until it felt as if the cold sweat coating them would drown them.

She would not find such an easy way out of this mess.

She turned, expecting a call. Expecting something, because this sense rose in her.

Her brow suddenly compressed down with confusion.

Then she shook it off. It was nothing more than her sixth sense misfiring, then—

No. She had to pay attention to one word. Firing.

Frost had spun from the portal. Now she spun back. She stared in slack-jawed horror as something traveled through the multiversal space toward her station. It was a single spark. Long before she could imagine what it was, the station detected it. And the full red alert blared through her room, through every single room, corridor, and cargo bay.

Frost’s body acted for her. There was no point in leaping over her desk even though she had the dexterity to try. No mere material would be able to protect her.

Only distance could save her life.

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