Night Song (The Guild Wars Book 9) by Mark Wandrey & Marisa Wolf

Author:Mark Wandrey & Marisa Wolf [Wandrey, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seventh Seal Press
Published: 2020-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

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“It’s the Gheshu,” A’kef announced as a ship swooped in on them as they fled. Veska snapped her jaw in both surprise and relief. They’d been on the hunt for their lost light cruiser for so long, she’d despaired of seeing battle under a profitable contract again. She should have suspected the clever old captain of their clan’s fiercest ship had found an enormous conflict to be a part of.

“Is it still ours?” Makori asked, leaning around one of the Humans to show his attentive posture.

Veska scoffed in the back of her throat, no matter how carefully the enormous male pricked his ears forward. A’kef would tell them what A’kef chose to tell them. Makori had no business pushing for more from their Rei’shin, not in front of the handful of Humans they’d crammed into the dropship.

Though Humans were forever asking questions, and the Zuul they’d raised certainly wouldn’t have taught them better. Instead, the Human-raised Zuul asked nearly as many questions as the Humans, whether it was a proper time for learning or not. Likely these Humans would have no idea Makori was speaking out of turn, if their translators could even keep up with the multiple conversations. If she were truthful to herself, though she couldn’t imagine a galaxy in which the captain of the Gheshu had lost control of her vessel, Veska very much wanted the answer to Makori’s question, regardless of how it had been delivered.

“Transmission codes indicate yes, but the sheer mass of missiles make it hard to tell who’s firing at who, and we don’t know why they were firing at us.”

“So we’re making a run for the Gheshu,” Veska said, her left ear twisting back thoughtfully.

“That’s the best angle we have, given how we fell from the Paku and the pattern of the battle.”

“The Gheshu? That’s the ship you came out looking for, right?” One of the younger Humans leaned forward as well, making aggressively direct eye contact with A’kef.

A’kef flicked his ears, but inclined his head calmly. He’d spent as much time with the Human mercenary commander who’d raised Rex and his littermates as Veska had managed to spend with Rex. As her lifetime of fighting had shown, one could get used to nearly anything with enough exposure and the proper motivation. Even Human behavior.

“We have been in search of the Gheshu as you have been for your Starbright. I hope both our searches find success in this system.” A’kef gestured the sincerity of his words, though the twist of his wrist as he lifted a hand showed his doubt.

After all, something had thrown them out of hyperspace directly into a battle raging through the exact corner of the system they’d been dragged into. Coincidences were not impossible, but to find battle, and the Gheshu, after such an unheard-of occurrence? The gods would laugh to make such a thing only coincidence. They were here because they were meant to be here. The gods spoke where impossibilities piled on top of each other.

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