Palaces of Light by Palaces Of Light

Author:Palaces Of Light
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Ten

Jak looked up at the canyon face. The sun was starting to ascend and the heat beginning to grow again. Above, across the clear air of the canyon, he could hear the sounds of people stirring and starting to go about their business.

It wouldn’t be long now before the patrol rode out, seemingly sightless and on a ritual ride that took no note of whatever was going on.

Except that the companions couldn’t take that risk. Maybe the sec team on patrol wasn’t as sightless as it seemed.

He looked back down to where J.B. and Krysty followed in his wake. The Armorer was taking the rear position, and was struggling a little. It was a steep ascent at this point in the journey, and the ordnance that J.B. carried with him was weighing him down a little. Krysty was blowing hard, but making good time. It was one hell of a task they had set themselves, but as Jak looked up to where the lip of the city’s ledge was protruding above them—almost, it seemed, within touching distance now—it was one that now seemed more of a possibility than it had a few hours before, when the dark before the dawn had echoed in their hopes and fears.

He tried to stare across the vast, yawning chasm to catch a glimpse of the companions who were climbing on the far side. They had to be in position at more or less the same time. If his people got to their point too soon, they would risk discovery with every second they had to wait.

The albino teen was suddenly filled with a feeling of dread, accosted by the smell and sense of chilling that lurked like a miasmic mist over the bone-white stone city.

He wondered if the others felt that same sense of foreboding.

“Jak, what is it? We need to keep moving.”

He turned and found himself staring into Krysty’s eyes. His own face and gleaming red eyes were as inexpressive as always. At least, that was what he hoped. But perhaps not. He could almost feel the doomie power of the redheaded beauty reach out through her own orbs and look into him. He could see that her sentient hair was flicking in an irritable fashion as it gathered close to her scalp. There was a depth to her words—the way she said them as much as the words themselves—that told him much.

“Place get you if stop,” he murmured. “Yeah, keep moving…hit hard and run.”

“I don’t know about run, but otherwise yeah,” J.B. said, grunting as he reached them, the initial puzzlement at seeing them halt evaporating as he caught a feel for what was going on mixed perhaps with relief that the nagging feelings he had experienced weren’t his alone.

Jak turned, took a step up along the narrow rock path and squinted at the city, so close they could touch it.

“Wonder how others doing?”

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