Titan’s Judgement (The Great Insurrection Book 9) by David Beers & Michael Anderle

Author:David Beers & Michael Anderle [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781685004408
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Ares hadn’t spoken to Alistair since he said he’d get everyone off the ship. He’d given the man space since he knew the way Alistair worked. Space and time, and usually he’d come up with something interesting.

However, Ares didn’t need a satellite to understand what had just happened. All he needed to do was look out one of the world breaker’s portholes. He saw enough from there.

He’d been doing that when Monk approached, the click-clack of his blades audible from far down the hall. Sneaking up on people wouldn’t be easy for the robot, not in this form.

Ares didn’t look at him. He didn’t want to talk to Monk right now since he knew the conversation. Monk doubted. Alistair wouldn’t speak to him, and neither would Servia. Yet, he wanted someone to go talk to Alistair other than him.

Ares didn’t know what talking to Alistair would do. At that moment, though, Ares could feel Monk’s doubt.

The four in the world breaker had spent much of the past day watching smoke billow off Earth’s surface. Some of the time, they could see where it came from, and others, the Earth’s curvature blocked the burn site. That didn’t matter, though, because they could always see the smoke.

Then, the smoke had lessened, slowly at first but faster as the hours passed.

Ares hadn’t left this porthole in two hours. He’d watched the AllSeer’s ships move north across the world. They were heading to Carthage now, and Ares could scarcely believe what his eyes had just shown him: the AllSeer had destroyed the first Commonwealth city in under a single day.

Monk stopped about three meters from him. “You have to do it, Ares. If he’s going to do something, if he can, it has to be now. It can’t wait. There isn’t time. I didn’t expect the AllSeer to do what he just did, and I have more information than everyone in this military combined. There isn’t time.”

Ares nodded. He didn’t know if Monk was right, but he needed reassurance because from where he stood, it looked like all was lost. “I’ll go. Stay here. I’ll find you when I’m ready to talk.”

Ares turned without looking at Monk and walked down the circular passage. Alistair wouldn’t be far away, not if he was watching the show.

Sure enough, Ares found him about ten minutes later. He was leaning against the outer wall, staring out the porthole as Ares had done earlier. Servia was on the other side of him at the next porthole. She stood with her hands behind her back. Obs was farther down the curved passage, his head between his paws. He didn’t so much as wag his tail when he saw Ares. No one, not even the animal, felt a ray of positivity.

Alistair’s face was strained, as if he were holding a giant weight in the air. Servia looked sad but calm.

Alistair’s huge shoulders bulged out of the dirty shirt he wore. A ring of dried sweat ran around the neckline, and Ares wondered if he’d been jogging or something while thinking.

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