Starpilot's Grave: book Two of Mageworlds
“Dream, and remember: Ebenra D’— Beka dropped back into realtime with a shudder, the transition as abrupt as the crossover to stasis had been.
Loud clicking noises sounded in her ears. Nyls and Ignac’ unlatching the plastic cover, that would be.
Her eyes were open and staring at the dark; she closed the right eye, allowing the left to stay open underneath the one-way optical plastic of the eye patch. A moment later the cover came off the box completely, but all she could see through the eye patc...h’s red haze was a stretch of ceiling.
“No. I’ll take it.”
The words came in a distorted metallic whisper, picked up by a comm link hidden in the base of the stasis box and relayed by the tiny speaker close to her left ear. Nevertheless, Beka recognized Ebenra D’Caer’s voice.
Soon now, she thought. We have some unfinished business, you and I.
Her crossed arms hid more than the rough edges of Jessan’s makeup job: the long, double-edged knife lay naked in her grip, its handle tight in her fist, its blade extending backward underneath her right forearm.MoreLess
Loud clicking noises sounded in her ears. Nyls and Ignac’ unlatching the plastic cover, that would be.
Her eyes were open and staring at the dark; she closed the right eye, allowing the left to stay open underneath the one-way optical plastic of the eye patch. A moment later the cover came off the box completely, but all she could see through the eye patc...h’s red haze was a stretch of ceiling.
“No. I’ll take it.”
The words came in a distorted metallic whisper, picked up by a comm link hidden in the base of the stasis box and relayed by the tiny speaker close to her left ear. Nevertheless, Beka recognized Ebenra D’Caer’s voice.
Soon now, she thought. We have some unfinished business, you and I.
Her crossed arms hid more than the rough edges of Jessan’s makeup job: the long, double-edged knife lay naked in her grip, its handle tight in her fist, its blade extending backward underneath her right forearm.MoreLess
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