Incursion by Aleksandr Voinov

Author:Aleksandr Voinov [Voinov, Aleksandr]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781937551452
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2012-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

And woke up. His dreams had been weird. He'd dreamed of the Sector Commissar, remembered the whole damn thing, and now felt listless and at the same time oddly refreshed. He tried to get up, thought he felt his leg twitch, before he remembered he couldn't move his legs. He groaned with disappointment and felt so raw inside that his eyes blurred with tears. He forced his body up to a sitting position.

"Here, these are clean." Grimm turned around with his prosthetics in both hands.

"How did you—"

"I helped you take them off yesterday."

Kyle stared at the door. "Where were we?"

"What do you mean, where were we?" Grimm came closer. "In here. We're flying this ship, you know."

"Not in the operating theater?"

Grimm frowned. "You all right? Have you eaten anything wrong?"

It was either Spacer madness, or he'd been dreaming. "I dreamed you took me there, checked out the bridge module."

"And?"

"Injected something into it."

"Why would I do that?"

"You offered, and I let you. To fight an inflammation."

Grimm lifted an eyebrow. "I injected something into your lower back and you let me. Kyle, I'm flattered, but that's a case of psychological projection right here. I mean, you can guess I'd be more than happy to inject something into your lower back . . ." The grin was all teeth and swagger.

"Yeah, I walked into that one." Kyle rubbed his face.

"Hey, I would inject you. Just say the word." Grimm smiled and handed him the prostheses. "I can definitely hook you up to them again."

"Fine." Kyle allowed Grimm to kneel and fiddle his legs into the metal cages and fasten them around his legs, but he connected them to the bridge module himself. The click-lock-hiss came like a relief. At least now he could move again. "Thanks."

Grimm wiped his hands on his trousers. "I liked you," he said.

Kyle frowned. "What?"

"I said I like you."

Space madness. Kyle swallowed against a lump in his throat. "The trauma might be worse than I thought." Hallucinations. Dreams so vivid they were more real than reality. Mishearing things. He was beginning to lose it.

And there's a morph on the ship. He's not hiding. He's out there, somewhere.

Kyle shuddered. "Do you know anything about Glyrinny?"

Grimm stood and smiled. "More myth than hard facts, I'm afraid."

Two possibilities. Kshar hadn't boarded the Scorpion at all, and he was chasing shadows. Or Kshar had found the time to change shape. Then he could be anybody.

Even Grimm.

Or maybe he was losing his mind regardless. He looked up at Grimm, tried to see that very average-looking human face in the warrior's. But nothing about Grimm rang any alarm bells. He was helpful, kind even, and had tried to get into Kyle's pants. Wouldn't that be weird for a Glyrinny, sleeping with a human?

He hasn't yet.

That was true. Kyle swallowed hard and stood. "I need to stretch my legs."

Above all, he needed to think. And eat something.

"Sure, take a break." Grimm threw himself back in his pilot seat, and Kyle breathed a little easier when the door whooshed shut behind him.

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