Cradle of the Future by Meyari McFarland

Author:Meyari McFarland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meyari McFarland

2. Battle Worthy

Nthanda Ceelen, you are a fool. You spot a person with dark, bright eyes peeking out from under his heavy black hood, full lips and skin as golden as the sun rising over the bow of the ship and you lose all sense. Whoever the youth was, he was not someone who could help with the quest. At best, he was a distraction, a dangerous distraction.

The Guard were quite determined to kill Nthanda before he could find what he needed to save his family. This youth was not a solution to that problem. Nor to his family's immanent fall. Even if his shoulders were strong and wide, his hips narrow and ass the sort of thing that would draw Nthanda across solar systems. Much too dangerous, this youth, and much too distracting.

Still, Nthanda ran with the entirely too comely youth straight at the thugs who were apparently titled 'Bangers'. This entire trip had been a fool's errand and one that threatened not only his life but the stability of the entire Ceelen family. If he had a sibling or better yet offspring, then this would not be so foolish. Battle with strangers on a world the majority of the galaxy decreed to be worthless would not be the end of his line.

As the sole survivor of the Ceelen line, Nthanda had a duty to continue his bloodline. The problem was finding one whose bloodline did not have conflicting modifications or mutations. The Ceelen were among the first to take to space and thus had a host of latent medical problems. Technology kept them from damaging Nthanda but they were lethal to all the children he'd attempted to sire and bear so far.

The only solution that the doctors had come up with inside the confines of the law was finding a bloodline that had none of his markers. And sadly, that was a difficult task indeed. Three lines existed. None of the scions of those lines could be found though it was believed that they still existed. The trail had led him here to Hexal City on Melin only to go cold as a dead comet once he arrived. Even going down to the actual records offices in the lower levels of the city where physical records of births, deaths and marriages were kept had revealed nothing of use.

Nothing other than the determination of the Guard to keep him from succeeding. Someone had paid them off. Someone rich and powerful which meant one of Nthanda's circle was a traitor. A problem to be sure, perhaps a deadly one if he didn't keep his head in the battle.

But here he was, charging into battle with an unknown youth as his sole companion. A fool indeed. At least his shields had held against the Guard's blasters. He would have been most displeased to see the youth crumple, holes burnt through his perfect body.

The Bangers looked up as the youth charged straight at them. They grinned like the predators they were, displaying altered fangs in the place of teeth and claws on their fingertips.

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