Sisters of Mercy by Yuval Kordov

Sisters of Mercy by Yuval Kordov

Author:Yuval Kordov [Kordov, Yuval]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781738802593
Published: 2025-05-19T16:00:00+00:00


6

THE DEEP

A meager sunrise welcomed them back to the surface: smaller, redder, and angrier than any Rachel-3 had painted upon her canvases. It hung at the cusp of the broken mountaintop, scant beams rippling over the waters of the drowned city, catching on bits of rusted tissue and bone, dulling into oily brown and green where archipelagoes of civilization gave way to steaming swamp. Shadow and mist prevailed here. Through it, the mountain road wound its way to Sector 80, dipping in and out of the depths.

[Rachel-3 > Hannah-9: Keep to the shallows.]

The way was not far, but Hannah did not cherish the journey. It felt too much like walking into the river again, though the viscous froth in this place was clearly liquid. She wished for the clear waters of her sister’s vision, so she could see what lurked beneath. Lazy bubbles followed their transit, blooming from the edges of the street where the city’s foundations had sunk—or been pulled down. Even where the waterline was distant, her feet sloshed through the muck, casting bait to whatever might be out there.

Rachel-3 led the way twenty meters up, floodlights beaming from side to side. Her body was partially obscured by fog, but Hannah did not need to see her sister’s legs to know the limp remained. If anything, she seemed even more laggard, weighed down by a chest full of armaments.

[Hannah-9 > Rachel-3: Have you been here before?]

[Rachel-3 > Hannah-9: Yes. It is a cursed place.]

The deeper they traversed, rerouting from one degraded roadway to the next, the thicker the steam, as though some fiery beast was smoldering below the murk. Anxious to evaporate the waters so it could dredge itself back into the world. It was a precarious enough journey for them, standing twelve meters tall; it must have been a nightmare for ground vehicles absent a God-engine’s senses.

Something shifted to her right, prompting a swarm of reticles from her battlegrid. They twitched in her peripheral vision, hugging the corners as she rotated, but there were only swaying reeds and a cluster of gnarled beams in the guise of willows. Her own floodlights revealed nothing, and a brief switch to thermal returned a uniform wall of red. Her viewport was clean, free of the chromatic aberration that followed the beasts of Hell. Still, something tingled between her senses: patterns of movement in the water, a melodic undertone within the wind.

[Rachel-3 > Hannah-9: Keep to the shallows.]

Hannah paused, one leg raised. The other was immersed well past the ankle. She had wandered to the edge.

[Hannah-9 > Rachel-3: Does something live here?]

Her sister turned, holding her reply until Hannah stepped back. The mud between her toes held fast, tearing free with a hungry slurp as she retreated.

[Rachel-3 > Hannah-9: Remnant.]

[Hannah-9 > Rachel-3: Those left behind… Here? In the water?]

[Rachel-3 > Hannah-9: The unsaved are no longer human. They adapt.]

Hannah scanned the close horizon again, seeking figures sheltering amidst the debris. Imagining lidless eyes, gilled throats, webbed hands bearing nets that meant to drag them to their abyssal master.



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