Prometheus Unites (The Great Insurrection Book 5) by David Beers & Michael Anderle

Author:David Beers & Michael Anderle [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Cristin de Monaham looked at the planet she planned to burn. She hated this planet, though she had not told anyone that. Cristin, a warlord in her own right, rarely told anyone anything she was thinking. This planet, with its lush forests and warm sun, was very different from the one she’d grown up on. To Cristin, this planet was the stuff of legend. Things her father had talked to her about when she was a child, the places she would conquer and the worlds she and her children would inherit.

At thirty-eight years old, Cristin had no children, and the only world she owned was the one made of ice that her father had handed down.

She had been told that life would be different, and it wasn’t until she grew to womanhood that she realized her father had been a foolish man in many ways. One of them was how easy he imagined the future would be. He had forgotten what everyone else on their home planet knew: life was not easy, and anything one wanted would have to be taken by blood and steel.

Cristin learned that lesson early when her father died and she was thrust into a war that would last too many years and cost too many lives. Well, perhaps not too many; when the war was finished, her position had been solidified both on her planet and off it. The lives had been well spent because the war had created a myth about Cristin de Monaham.

The Ice Queen.

Now she flew toward a man that she thought was worthy of more bloodshed. Defeating him would expand her empire, and with it, her family’s security.

That was the one thing her father had been right about—family. The rest of the universe could burn, along with everyone in it, but one had to watch out for one’s lineage.

The two men Cristin flew with were inconsequential. She had kept the peace established after their war because it had been profitable to do so. Now it was profitable to use their war machines to defeat this—

Cristin grew a bit hazy when trying to classify this man. He was a mutant, though she had no quarrel with that. What was he fighting for, though? Why had he come to this planet to free the gigantes? Cristin didn’t mind him doing that; her business competed with this planet’s.

Still, the question of why plagued her.

Her reason for everything she did was her family, the one that had made their home on a cold, desolate planet but had managed to thrive generation after generation.

Why was he here? Why was he freeing creatures that had no business being freed?

Cristin wasn’t sure if she would get answers to those questions. She hadn’t come this far to palaver with the mutant. No, she’d come here to get what her father had promised her: a warm planet.

One of the other warlords she traveled with, Simo de Colombus, was introduced through the mic in her ear.

“Simo would like to speak with you, Queen,” the AI said.

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