Cosmic Catalyst by Schwartz Jenny

Author:Schwartz, Jenny [Schwartz, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal
Amazon: B076PSPMHH
Goodreads: 40880561
Published: 2017-10-22T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Waking Alex was fraught with danger. It wasn’t as if he’d be feeling friendly toward us after Vulf punched him. Edith had dashed back across the lock to the Stealth and collected a disrupter from the corvette’s armory.

“Activate it,” Vulf said.

Edith hesitated with her finger on the trigger. “Are you sure it won’t hurt you, Jaya?”

“There’s no pain. It’s a bit disorienting and frustrating not having access to sha energy, but it doesn’t hurt. And I’d far rather the disrupter run than have Alex wake up and launch a defensive sha attack that I’d have to counter.”

Edith nodded at that and pressed the trigger. She locked it in active mode.

The world continued around me. The sha energy flowed around us, but I couldn’t access it to control it.

Alex woke neatly.

Ahab was monitoring the medbot and reported that Alex was conscious before Alex opened his eyes.

The Shaman Justice didn’t rush, although he’d have heard Ahab’s announcement of his waking status. Alex’s eyes stayed closed. He’d be assessing the impact of the active disrupter.

I’d discovered that I could play with sha energy even with a disrupter running. It was a different kind of relationship to the sha than what the Academy taught. The disrupter broke a shaman’s direct control of sha energy. But I’d found that I could still nudge the flow of sha energy so that a cascade of it could be encouraged to build up until it overwhelmed and broke a disrupter.

Could Alex do the same?

I waited with my nerves on edge. If Alex could destroy a disrupter, he could potentially simultaneously lash out at us with sha energy. I needed to be our second line of defense if the disrupter failed.

When he opened his eyes, Alex focused on Vulf. “Why?”

“I didn’t know my sister was in this sector of space, and until I knew why, your presence was an unacceptable danger to her and Jaya.”

Alex’s hazel eyes stayed fixed on Vulf for a long moment, before taking in Edith and Kohia. “And now?” He sat up cautiously. The caution wasn’t due to pain. While sedated, the medbot would have healed the consequences of Vulf’s hit. Alex was moving warily out of respect for the dangerous individuals in the cargo hold with him.

“Now, we need your help,” I said.

“Have you read the scenarios?” he asked me.

I shook my head.

He inhaled briefly, a hint of anger escaping. “There is information you need buried in those scenarios.”

“I believe you,” I said. “But the wider implications can wait. I want the children trapped in the Academy free and safe first.”

“Where will you take them?” he asked.

I frowned.

<He thinks a pirate fleet is waiting. We could call one. Evacuate the Academy to Corsairs.>

My eyes widened at Vulf’s ’pathed suggestion and I stared at him. Then I giggled. “President Hoffer would lose his mind.”

“Is that a yes?” Amusement laced Vulf’s voice.

“A yes to what?” Kohia wasn’t one to remain quietly in ignorance.

“It’s a ‘not yet’,” I said to Vulf, and then, to Kohia. “We could evacuate the students at the Academy to Corsairs.

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