Sky Children (Lacuna Chronicles Book 2) by A.M. Daily

Author:A.M. Daily [Daily, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-31T14:00:00+00:00

Nine: Leviathan

Calypso was so smooth and so quiet that Mikas had barely felt the launch, and even now, as he sat in the galley studying the ship’s repositioning trek around Aurora on the holoimage above his head, it was as if they weren’t traveling at all. He watched as the previously still map began to rotate slowly and when he glanced away from it, he found Xiah leaning in the doorway with a smug grin, the obvious perpetrator.

Xiah stepped down into the galley and swiped his hand over the map to disperse it. Mikas’ eyes followed the swift movement, noting that Xiah had the same long, elegant fingers as Cade; hands that seemed strong and delicate all at once. Xiah was a creature Mikas wasn’t quite sure how to take just yet. He knew that Xiah was Ezri, but he seemed so human in his mannerisms that it was hard to regard the other as anything but.

“Do you always sneak around by yourself?” Xiah asked with a raised eyebrow.

“I keep to myself,” Mikas responded quickly, eyeing Xiah just as critically. Xiah sat himself down beside Mikas on the bench, elbows resting on his knees, arms hanging down carelessly. Mikas kept his gaze on the Ezri warily, a somewhat intimidating tendency he had developed over the years while interacting with those he didn’t know too well.

Glancing sideways at the Ezri, Mikas thought he could have easily mistaken Xiah for a kid from his own pact, a street hustler, if it weren’t for those fathomless dark eyes that followed his every movement sharply. Just how the Ezri had been so easily surmounted, nearly killed off, was something of a mystery to Mikas after he had been able to observe them so closely over the past months.

There was a dangerous air about them, the way they moved, so in control of every part of their tall, slender bodies. It was as if at any moment they could lash out with a deadly swiftness if they so wished. He had seen that sort of predatory way of moving in seasoned fighters of his own gang. And yet, in the Ezri there was a calm contemplativeness beneath that readiness to strike. It was a strange juxtaposition that baffled Mikas. Xiah was no different than Senka in that respect, even as he grinned openly and engaged Mikas in amiable conversation, something Senka seemed incapable of doing.

“I imagine it was easier that way on Earth,” Xiah nodded, “I’ve heard the stories.”

Mikas looked away at that. He had heard the way the people of Aurora talked of Earth, how they regarded her dwindling state. Some of the people of Aurora were refugees, families that had escaped before the Terah’s grip had become too deadly to challenge, but most who claimed recent Earthling heritage were second or third generation Aurorans who knew nothing of the hardships the people of Earth endured and who merely scoffed at their cowering state.

“I knew a girl from Helene once, she used to dance at a bar in Lucia,” Xiah told him and Mikas looked up sharply at the familiar name.

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