The Alien Library: Space Mercenaries # 5 (Wolf Cyborg) by Wolf Galen

Author:Wolf, Galen [Wolf, Galen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: White Rabbit Press
Published: 2016-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Gaijann gets a weapon

Gaijann moved more quietly and more slowly than Severan. He couldn't see the giant ahead of him so, as he went, he listened for the noises of combat. Gaijann knew he could have gone with the rest of the group - it would have been safer but he chose to go after Mehefin and Severan. He wasn't taking the risks to save Mehefin, though he was disgusted that her father and the rest of the party could leave her behind. No, he was going for the sake of his friend.

He calculated the hours they had been in the Library. Last time he checked, enough time had gone by to make him worried about the dark that would rise. More time had passed now. Way above their heads, he knew the planet was turning its face towards the darkness and when the darkness came the time of the creatures of silver would pass and in their place would come the howling forces of entropy; a dark tide that would dissolve any life forms that dared remain in the library, break them apart and return them to the entropy from which all life emerges.

By the time Gaijann got to the pool Severan was already gone. He was about to follow his leader's boot prints into the previously disregarded tunnel, when his eye was caught by movements in the silver pool. He saw it heave and shapes begin to form in it. He guessed the pool was picking up someone's memories and transforming them into a kind of life, but were the memories his or Severan's? Or even the lizards. Gaijann backed off and watched. The heaves became more substantial. Half-human creatures struggled to pull themselves free from the quicksilver matrix like evil babies being born. He sucked his teeth. Time to move. Gaijann got to the bottom of the stone staircase that led up the shaft and backed up higher as the embryos pulled themselves free, dragging their half-formed bodies from the mercury.

In the shadows, Gaijann was invisible to all mortal eyes. Even the infrared and ultraviolet sensitive eyes of machines would not detect him while his stealth field was up and he remained still. But these things didn't belong to any order of creature he had ever come across. He stepped back further and, as they pulled themselves from the pool, he recognized them as more Ghazzali and knew then they were hunting Severan.

The silver creatures were between him and his boss. He could wait until they had passed, but then how would that help the giant? More and more of them stumbled out of the water, took tottering steps, and then stood. Gaijann backed a few steps up the staircase and then a few more. From here he had a good view. There were hundreds of them being born: the quicksilver children of the tired gods of Law.

And then Gaijann noticed that to his right the rock was not even. There in the wall there were indentations and they were regular.

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