Cassidy meets…Cassidy?
Cassidy eyed her subject as the Dark squirmed in the tight confines of its containment. No variations of the Dark Death virus had affected it thus far. Nor had the Kalquorian equivalent, RCN-16. She and Egilka were nearly to the point of performing biopsies. Despite her intense dislike of the Darks and her ability to cause them agony and near-death through forcing them into her dimension, she didn’t look forward to hacking pieces off them. No matter how homicidal the All was, it seemed barbaric to maim the Darks. Unfortunately, she and Egilka had found no means of sedation or anaesthetizing them.
At least the coming necessity of such savagery gave her some comfort she hadn’t been completely reduced to sociopathic hatred of the enemy.
She sent the nano in to inject the subject in her last attempt to infect it with the final variant of RCN-16. After the Dark finished its outraged squeals and the nano had been retrieved, she eased the fatal gravity in the containment to a safer, more comfortable level.
Has the All really obliterated all sentients in your home dimension?
Still twitching from its latest foray into her atmosphere, the Dark sounded almost gleeful in its reply. Of course they were destroyed. Separates are abominations, too low to exist. They didn’t deserve to share being alongside the All.
Except for the Other. Why have you allowed it to continue existing?
Seething anger erupted. The Other is a coward.
Why do you say that?
It keeps itself unseeable. When it does show up, it doesn’t use its own face. It makes a mockery of the All!
Cassidy winced at the vicious rage pouring in her skull. It isn’t a lower lifeform than the All then, is it? If you can’t harm it?
It is an abomination! It is not the All! It should die! The Dark Egilka worked on at his station joined in the furious denouncements. Since it was pinned motionless by its shrunken containment, the emperor, rapt in concentration as he worked on it, failed to note its agitation.
“Like children, aren’t they?” a low, feminine voice asked Cassidy. “Nasty attitudes, but does one erase their children when they misbehave?”
Cassidy jerked her attention to the figure who’d appeared beside her. She gaped to see herself standing there, looking at her in detached interest.
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Victories against invasion have been won, but the galaxy may be lost in the end.
There may be no escape from the All’s extermination plans for the dimension. Emperor Clajak has one last card up his sleeve, however: a band of misfit renegade Kalquorians called the Coydidak. Only with their help and an impossible mission to beyond the known reaches of the universe can Kalquor hope to preserve life.
A determined engineer is at the top of the list of Coydidak leader Dramok Rorix’s least favorite humans. She’ll stop at nothing to board his ship for a one-way voyage that’s to last a lifetime. Is ultimate freedom from the empire worth dealing with the beautiful but unrelenting Laughter Lorenz?
As the clock ticks to the end of Dr. Cassidy Hamilton’s pregnancy and potentially life in the dimension, she works feverishly to find a way to destroy the All. A visit from an undiscovered entity brings to light her greatest hope and worst fear. Only time will tell if this new being is friend or foe…but Cassidy’s time and that of her soon-to-be-born child is almost up.
Adventure. Danger. Intrigue. Romance that outburns the sun in any galaxy. It’s all here in the sixth installment of the Dark Empire series.
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