Nomad Mortis by Craig Martelle & Michael Anderle

Author:Craig Martelle & Michael Anderle [Martelle, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2017-06-18T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Germany

Akio sat on the ramp looking up at the stars. Bethany Anne was somewhere out there, doing what she had to do to protect humanity. Akio had seen the best and worst since she’d flown off. He’d seen the people try to destroy themselves, followed by the rebuilding where the strong held sway over the weak, and others, like Terry and Char, who helped people get back on their feet.

He thanked Bethany Anne for seeing the potential of Terry Henry Walton and boosting him with nanocytes. Without him, Akio wasn’t sure the United States would come back. The new city-states would be critical for the future of all mankind. From them, the nation-states would sprout and the modern world would be built anew.

Akio held his duty as solemn, to be done to his last breath. His only demand of himself was that he succeed for the Queen.

He knew that was the Queen’s unwavering requirement, too. She assumed his loyalty was absolute. The only thing that remained was getting the job done. Akio worried that if she returned that day, his mission would be incomplete. Forsaken would control more of humanity than they did when she left.

The Forsaken were attempting to dominate all of humanity, turning them into unwitting slaves. Neither Akio nor Terry Henry Walton could have that. Terry’s brazen kidnapping was an escalation in the war for the future of the planet. The previous skirmishes had been nothing in comparison.

Akio was frustrated that he couldn’t sense the Forsaken. He hoped that Aaron and Yanmei had more luck. He could feel them approach, stopping to change back into human form, dressing, and returning through the platoon’s perimeter. He heard the soft call of “beer me, bitches,” with the appropriate reply of “beer up.”

A little bit of Terry Henry lived in all of them. Akio knew Terry’s mind and understood that he loved beer as a comfort drink. He learned to brew it sufficiently that a couple times a year, he would get to indulge. Terry would put all distractions aside, sit on the beach, look at the water, and enjoy his beer. Char would sit by his side and for those brief moments in time, he was completely at peace.

Like when Akio shared tea with Yuko. Akio breathed deeply and slowly, in through his nose, out through his mouth. His frustration melted away.

Terry and his beer.

“Yuko-chan, would you be so kind as to prepare tea for the four of us?” he asked, bowing deeply.

“Of course,” she replied and retreated to the area toward the pod’s cockpit that served as a galley. It was little more than a place where water was heated or cooled, with something that acted like a convection/microwave oven. There was a small refrigerator that didn’t hold much. The galley was there for the comfort of the crew, not the passengers.

Yuko started heating the water as Aaron and Yanmei entered the pod. Akio saw in their minds that they had not found anything either, no sign of Forsaken.

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