Prime Enforcer by Justin Sloan & P. T. Hylton & Michael Anderle

Author:Justin Sloan & P. T. Hylton & Michael Anderle [Sloan, Justin & Hylton, P. T. & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-02-07T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“They know we have a Bandian,” Jilla told them, “and they are coming to kill him.”

The Lavkin leaders listened in silence, their eyes wide with concern. Mej and Lien sat together on a wide chair. Commander Larence and the other ships’ commanders were there, too.

“They’ve been harassing you for the past few months in the hope that they’d provoke you into an attack,” she continued. “They were hoping your Bandian allies would reveal themselves, and then they would bring their entire fleet down on your heads.”

“And now they know we do have a Bandian,” Mej said with a sigh.

Jilla nodded. “Of course, they believe we have more than one. They think Kalan showing himself was a mistake, and the rest of them are hiding in the ships. But now that they have a confirmed sighting, they’ve put out the call to the rest of the fleet—a dozen ships, each as big as the one from which they’ve been launching attacks.”

Lien made a guttural sound that either wasn’t a word or one Kalan’s translation chip was unable to interpret. “A dozen ships? Each probably has a squadron of fighters.”

“We’ve had a hard enough time fighting off one squadron,” Commander Larence added.

A ball of hot guilt burned in Kalan’s belly. A fleet was coming here to kill these people, and it was all because of him. “There’s only one thing we can do. I need to leave. We have the fighter Jilla stole from the Pallicons. I can fly away from here, and hail them on my way out. They’ll chase me and leave you alone.”

Mej shook her head. “As noble as that sounds, I don’t think it’s going to be that easy. As Jilla said, they believe we are hiding other Bandians. Now that they’ve seen you, it will be incredibly difficult to convince them otherwise.”

“What if I surrender myself to them?” Kalan asked. “Maybe even let them search the ships to confirm—”

“You’re not getting it,” Lien interrupted. “They are a cult. They believe your kind are trying to destroy the fabric of the universe, and that my kind are trying to help. There’s no reasoning with these creatures.”

“He’s right,” Jilla said. “I had to sit through one of their little revival meetings. You should have heard the priest! Reality and the Wandarby cultists are not on speaking terms.”

The ball of guilt in his stomach was threatening to overwhelm him with its white heat. “So what do we do?”

“I think it’s pretty obvious,” Bob said, speaking for the first time during the meeting. “We have to fight them.”

“Shut up, Bob,” Kalan said. “We can’t just—”

“No, Kalan, this time I won’t shut up. You need to admit it. There’s no easy way out here, no tricky plan. It’s going to come down to muscle, bullets, and blood.”

A wide smile broke across Jilla’s face. “As much as I hate to admit it, Bob’s right on this one.”

Mej nodded. “Jilla says the fleet will be here in the next day or so. There’s no allied force that could reach us in time.

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