Dishonored--The Veiled Terror by Adam Christopher

Author:Adam Christopher
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf, mobi
Publisher: Titan
Published: 2018-10-06T19:26:48.444000+00:00

14

THE VOID HOLLOW

17th Day, Month of Darkness, 1853

Billie left the telescope room and headed back down toward the atrium. But halfway around the curve of the stairs, she stopped.

She wasn’t alone in the tower anymore. There were people working in the laboratories.

She crept down the remainder of the stairs, her senses alert for anyone who might be coming her way. As she approached the final bend of the staircase, she had a clear view of the atrium and saw it was empty. But the workshop doors were all open. Creeping forward, Billie could see people working on the runes inside the workshop on her right—there were at least four people, but it sounded like more. A couple of them were talking to each other as they worked, comparing some of the notes from one of the many journals, while the other two that were in Billie’s line of sight were sitting on the high stools, hunched over their work like master watchmakers, peering down through the multitude of magnifying lenses as they worked on the runes with delicate tools.

Billie pulled back, safely out of sight, and considered her next move. That the source of the Void rift destabilization was here, she was now certain—it was the work the Leviathan Company was doing, with their collection of artifacts.

But Billie knew that the runes themselves were almost beside the point. They were just a tool—whatever Severin and his company were doing, whatever power they had managed to unlock from the artifacts, it was less a question of how, than of why.

And what was the Leviathan Causeway itself really for?

Billie listened for a few more moments, but the workshop staff continued with their work, with no apparent indication that anyone was leaving anytime soon. Billie turned and went back up the short spiral of stairs into the telescope room. As soon as she entered the chamber, she felt the Sliver grow warm, and the pain behind her eyes started up again as she looked toward the slot in the wall at the swirling red and blue sky. It was impossible to tell if it was day or night; the whole sky looked as though it were a Void rift itself. She moved to the opening in the wall and looked down once more at what should have been the causeway construction zone—or the edge of it, abutting the Alba rift. But what she saw was something entirely different: the vast military base, full of soldiers and strange machines that could fly.

That she was inside a Void hollow was certain—another world, a reflection of her own, created by the shearing apart of the two dimensions. The perfect hiding place for Severin to build a secret army. The man himself had said they were at war, and Billie had found his base of operations.

By now the marching parades had stopped, and the open space that stretched between the control complex and the far wall of the crater was largely devoid of activity. On Billie’s left

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