STAR TREK® MIND MELD by JOHN VORNHOLT

Author:JOHN VORNHOLT
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: POCKET BOOKS
Published: 1997-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

TESKA KNEW INSTINCTIVELY that they weren’t firing at her any longer, and she skidded to a stop. She turned to see Spock get hit by a phaser beam and spun around, his weapon flying through the air and landing a few meters away from her. She stared in horror as a second beam slashed across his back, and his slender body shuddered and plummeted to the ground.

The girl drew a sharp breath and seized control of her emotions. If she didn’t, she would be dead, too. When the assassin knelt down for a moment to check on her fallen comrade, Teska lunged for the phaser on the ground. The woman looked up at the same instant that Teska’s tiny fingers found the trigger mechanism. Their eyes locked, and there was more fear in the Rigelian’s eyes than in the young Vulcan’s.

Teska drilled the woman in the chest with the blue beam, and she slumped on top of her fallen comrade.

The seven-year-old ran to Spock, fighting back the emotions. The Starfleet officer was crisscrossed with burns. Calmly she reached for his wrist and saw that his communicator device had been fried into a lumpy bracelet, which had probably kept his hand from being severed. Her slender fingers encircled his wrist and, to her surprise, found a weak pulse. Despite his wounds, he was still alive!

Teska suppressed her initial excitement with the thought that they were still surrounded by enemies. With her phaser leveled in front of her, she moved warily toward the woman she had shot, who was slumped over a man that her uncle must have shot. They had no phaser burns on them and were breathing easily, so the girl reached the conclusion that her phaser was set on stun. She looked at the deadly instrument and thought about how everyone that she and Spock had shot would be waking up in an unknown length of time. Whatever she was going to do, she had to act fast!

She reluctantly came to the logical conclusion that she could simply kill all the assassins now while they lay unconscious. But Teska had been brought up to consider life as precious, and to kill defenseless people was beyond her capabilities. That certainly wouldn’t keep her from stealing their weapons, though, and she shoved two more phasers into her bulging black clothing.

She heard a snapping sound, and she looked up to see the lodge burning fitfully and falling apart. Sparks shot upward into the night sky and looked like meteorites streaking in the wrong direction. She worried for Mother Fergolin and her friends, but maybe the numerologist was only stunned and would wake up any second. So might the assassins. Teska knew she had to do two things—escape and get Spock some help. Everything else was secondary. If he died without transferring his katra, it would be an incalculable loss.

Instinctively she touched the locket hanging around her neck and thought of the Heart Clan. They were the only ones she could trust.

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