The Defector by J C Andrijeski

Author:J C Andrijeski [Andrijeski, J C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2019-03-17T06:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Deal With This

No one said much on the walk back.

Well… not that Revik could hear.

Then again, he didn’t try very hard to listen.

All six of the other seers gave him a wide berth after they dragged him out from under Terian’s knife. Balidor approached him not long after they’d left the Org’s mobile construct, but Revik slammed out hard enough with his aleimi that the other seer promptly backed down.

After that, all of them left him alone.

Not long after they left the Rooks’ clearing, Revik heard a shot echo through the trees from the place they’d left behind.

He didn’t bother to try and figure out if that meant what he thought it meant.

He knew it wouldn’t matter, even if he was right. Terian couldn’t be killed like that, not really killed, not anymore. It might shock Terian’s men, including his new fuck-buddy, “Quay,” Revik’s look-alike. It would likely be calculated to shock them, and to send a message, but that’s all it would do, given who and what Terian was.

Shoving his ex-partner from his mind, Revik fought to erase his thoughts altogether.

He and the Adhipan seers walked the several miles back to the lower staging area.

Once they got there, Balidor informed the larger team, headed by Garensche, that they would be joining the rest of the Adhipan seers at a higher-level camp, one located a few miles south of where Kali and her husband were now encamped.

Apparently, they’d been moved around the same time Balidor left to find Revik.

Kali and her husband, Uye, were now surrounded by that mysterious group of infiltrators who had come to protect her and her child from the Org.

The Adhipan would maintain the second camp as back up, from what Balidor said, in the event something happened and Galaith didn’t honor their agreement.

They would not be joining the larger camp in those higher hills.

Revik barely listened as Balidor explained all of this.

He didn’t look at any of them, or let any of them touch him, not even to dress the wound on his neck, although Yumi, and then Ontari, who didn’t seem to know what was going on, at least not yet, both offered to do the latter.

Revik managed it himself.

Well, more or less.

He stopped the bleeding on the way back to Garensche and the others.

Then, once they’d reached the staging area, he opened his pack long enough to find the shirt he’d been sleeping in for the past few days, and tied that around his neck to keep the wound closed.

He knew he’d need help to stitch it up once they got to the upper base, but at least then he could ask one of Balidor’s other seers to do it––meaning one he didn’t know and didn’t give a damn about. At the very least, he could find one who wouldn’t ask him any questions.

He walked with the rest of them through the trees, silent.

On that leg of the journey, he could hear the other seers talking to one another in low voices, though.

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