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really bad at your job.”
The mountain grunted, then flashed a mouthful of sharp
teeth. Lifting up one foot, it took an eternity to fall again before the next
could rise. He lumbered, but so steadily that Saffron had no idea how anyone
was managing to knock these creatures over at all. “I remember…you,” the
invader said. “You…ran away.”
Finally standing up, Eban shrugged out of his vest and his
wings crashed to the floor. “Yes. I ran away. But not this time.”
Just then, an enormous howl of wind, like a hurricane, swept
through the atrium. Icari everywhere went tumbling like drifting weeds in old
Western TV shows. Even Saffron was pushed across the floor, her back and neck
pressing painfully into the legs of the bench.
The mountainous invader turned his head nearly all the way
around to look over his shoulder. The fire was blazing as strong as ever, but
the smoke was being sucked rapidly into vents. Already, the burning in her
lungs faded.
The mechanics reached the filtration system, she
thought.
It wasn’t enough to distract the invaders for long. Once
more, their leader turned to face Eban, but the commander was already there. He
held in his hand a slim piece of machinery with an open circular area at one
end, resembling a gun if not for the glowing coming from within.
“Don’t think I haven’t studied you,” Eban said grimly. “And
collected every bit of information I could find on you, from those you
terrorized. It ends today. Go back to where you came from.”
A clublike arm lifted into the air.
The shot was soundless but glaringly blue, not at all like
the soothing interior lights. It burned her eyes, and a much cleaner scent of
burning caught in her nostrils as the invading leader reeled back, a hole burnt
so severely into his upper arm that she could see…
She didn’t want to see, and looked away.
The end came quickly, after that. Injured and warned, the
invader retreated and gathered his people to him with a long, drawn-out call.
They returned to him like dogs, and wandered back the way they came without so
much as another word.
That’s impossible!
“Not quite,” Eban grunted, leaning down over her. She hadn’t
been quite aware that she’d spoken aloud, but it didn’t matter because he was
holding her, cradling the back of her head firmly in one hand, and her neck
with the other. “They’re just like any other bully. Took them twenty years to
try and come back for more, but when the victim pushes back, they scurry away
like that. So it is with anything else. But, they won’t be bothering us ever
again.”
Nothing he said in that moment would have really convinced
her of that fact, but it didn’t matter. His hands on her body, cradling the
part of her that hurt the most, felt almost heavenly. And she was so, so tired,
her body slumping against his.
“I cannot stay,” he confessed softly. “My people need me
now. But I swear to you that I will return.”
“I believe you,” she sighed, and the last thing she saw
before another Icari bent over her to take his place was the promise in his
eyes.
Chapter Ten
The damage was extensive but not nearly as bad as it could
have been. That was what Saffron would say, wasn’t it? He tried to believe it
because he knew it was his job to find a way to bolster his people, but they
hadn’t even had time to recover from the last letdown and now this! Would he
never see peace?
He sighed, and lightly stroked the smoke-smeared surface of
his command console. Poison buzzed unpleasantly at his skin, but it would do no
harm unless he decided to lick it for some reason. Really, nothing was ever
really as bad as it could have been but that didn’t lessen the reality that
they had taken some very heavy blows. The explosions had broken screens and
scrambled equipment, though the resulting fires and smoke had only clogged
The mountain grunted, then flashed a mouthful of sharp
teeth. Lifting up one foot, it took an eternity to fall again before the next
could rise. He lumbered, but so steadily that Saffron had no idea how anyone
was managing to knock these creatures over at all. “I remember…you,” the
invader said. “You…ran away.”
Finally standing up, Eban shrugged out of his vest and his
wings crashed to the floor. “Yes. I ran away. But not this time.”
Just then, an enormous howl of wind, like a hurricane, swept
through the atrium. Icari everywhere went tumbling like drifting weeds in old
Western TV shows. Even Saffron was pushed across the floor, her back and neck
pressing painfully into the legs of the bench.
The mountainous invader turned his head nearly all the way
around to look over his shoulder. The fire was blazing as strong as ever, but
the smoke was being sucked rapidly into vents. Already, the burning in her
lungs faded.
The mechanics reached the filtration system, she
thought.
It wasn’t enough to distract the invaders for long. Once
more, their leader turned to face Eban, but the commander was already there. He
held in his hand a slim piece of machinery with an open circular area at one
end, resembling a gun if not for the glowing coming from within.
“Don’t think I haven’t studied you,” Eban said grimly. “And
collected every bit of information I could find on you, from those you
terrorized. It ends today. Go back to where you came from.”
A clublike arm lifted into the air.
The shot was soundless but glaringly blue, not at all like
the soothing interior lights. It burned her eyes, and a much cleaner scent of
burning caught in her nostrils as the invading leader reeled back, a hole burnt
so severely into his upper arm that she could see…
She didn’t want to see, and looked away.
The end came quickly, after that. Injured and warned, the
invader retreated and gathered his people to him with a long, drawn-out call.
They returned to him like dogs, and wandered back the way they came without so
much as another word.
That’s impossible!
“Not quite,” Eban grunted, leaning down over her. She hadn’t
been quite aware that she’d spoken aloud, but it didn’t matter because he was
holding her, cradling the back of her head firmly in one hand, and her neck
with the other. “They’re just like any other bully. Took them twenty years to
try and come back for more, but when the victim pushes back, they scurry away
like that. So it is with anything else. But, they won’t be bothering us ever
again.”
Nothing he said in that moment would have really convinced
her of that fact, but it didn’t matter. His hands on her body, cradling the
part of her that hurt the most, felt almost heavenly. And she was so, so tired,
her body slumping against his.
“I cannot stay,” he confessed softly. “My people need me
now. But I swear to you that I will return.”
“I believe you,” she sighed, and the last thing she saw
before another Icari bent over her to take his place was the promise in his
eyes.
Chapter Ten
The damage was extensive but not nearly as bad as it could
have been. That was what Saffron would say, wasn’t it? He tried to believe it
because he knew it was his job to find a way to bolster his people, but they
hadn’t even had time to recover from the last letdown and now this! Would he
never see peace?
He sighed, and lightly stroked the smoke-smeared surface of
his command console. Poison buzzed unpleasantly at his skin, but it would do no
harm unless he decided to lick it for some reason. Really, nothing was ever
really as bad as it could have been but that didn’t lessen the reality that
they had taken some very heavy blows. The explosions had broken screens and
scrambled equipment, though the resulting fires and smoke had only clogged
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