The Engineer (The Last Horizon Book 2) by Will Wight

Author:Will Wight [Wight, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hidden Gnome Publishing
Published: 2023-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY-NINE

The moment we were back inside the ship, I rounded on Horizon, but I was too late.

Shyrax loomed behind the ship’s spirit, a wall of disapproving Karoshan muscle. She slapped the back of Horizon’s head with one huge yellow hand, and there was enough of a Combat Art in the motion that it made an audible crack.

“That was painful to watch. I no longer permit you to speak on my behalf.”

Through watering eyes, Horizon looked up with an expression full of self-pity. “I have centuries of experience with World Spirits! And it worked!”

Shyrax continued relentlessly. “You cannot be allowed to act as you wish. Share your strategy with us before it is in motion. I cannot believe a spirit of your age would need such a reminder.”

Horizon wilted. I thought she might have even made herself shorter.

Raion came to her rescue, standing up with hands on his hips. “What’s wrong? She did it! We know where the Shadow Ark is now!”

Horizon flickered and reappeared behind Raion, looking smug again. “Yes! My Knight understands my value.”

Mell wore goggles over her eyes and was connecting a battery to one of her Nova-Bots on a makeshift lab table. “It’s not that it didn’t work, it was just embarrassing to watch. The Captain looked like he was about to shoot you.”

Omega gave a loud, exaggerated yawn. “Boring, boring, boring. Why don’t we stop talking and get on our way?”

“Let’s hold off on that,” I said, settling my staff and its crate into the corner. “We still don’t know where to go.”

“Sure we do,” Omega said. “Advocate headquarters.”

There weren’t as many protests as I had hoped.

“We have preparations to make if we are to assault the Advocates directly,” Shyrax said.

Sola had her arms folded as she read a readout scrolling over a monitor. From a quick glance, I thought it was an estimation of Advocate defenses. “Should be easier than a Hive raid. They take in foreign ships from all over the galaxy, we’ll just have to be careful with our cover story.”

“We should talk to them first!” Raion suggested. “They’ll listen to us!”

I eyed him. “We fought Starhammer. You kidnapped three Advocates.”

“We can explain that!”

I held up a hand and addressed the room. “We can’t do this. Not now. I know Shadow Ark has the materials we need for Horizon’s repairs, but we’ll have to figure out another way to get them. We can’t just have a showdown with Starhammer and all the Advocates.”

“Why?” Omega asked blankly.

Mell slammed the battery down on the table with a deafening crash. She pulled her goggles up onto her forehead and glared at Omega. “I know I’m new here, but this is ridiculous. Do you know how stupid it would be for us to raid Advocate headquarters for spare parts? How much damage do you think we’re going to take just getting in there?”

“Not as much as they will,” Omega said, then he chuckled in three voices.

I moved to stand by Mell. “We should withdraw. If we fight Starhammer, we have to kill him, and I’m not sure we’re in the position to do that.

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