He regarded them for a moment before prowling toward them.“You must know that’s not possible.I’ve come too far to turn back now.”
“I suppose so,” Kira agreed.
She could have forgiven the personal betrayal.Cleo was right in that a crappy childhood wasn’t enough to force a relationship if both parties weren’t amenable.But trafficking kids?Doing to them what was done to the forty-three?
There was no forgiveness for that.
They’d signed their death warrant.
Now.Or later.
By her hand or Jin’s.
There was nowhere they could run.Nowhere they could hide.Kira would find them and make them pay.
“This is the end, Kira.”
“Yes,” Kira murmured.
For him.That is.
A crescent mark glowed on Mars’s forehead as his eyes turned white.Color leached from his skin.The tips of his hair grew whiter and whiter under it was almost glowing.He opened his mouth to show energy coalescing in a sphere at its center.
Kira suddenly had an idea of what Mars had gotten from their former masters.
The hilt of an en-blade fell into the palm of the hand wrapped around Roderick’s side as the depression in his suit vanished.Kira dumped Roderick to the ground, whipping his blade up in front of her face to meet the lance of pure power that split the air.
It was followed by two bone-white daggers.
She managed to dodge the first but the second lodged itself in her shoulder.
“Careful, he can spit weapons too,” Roderick called.
Kira grimaced, reaching up to yank the dagger out of her shoulder.“That would have been nice to know sooner.”
“You two seemed familiar.I thought you knew.”
She had.She’d just forgotten.
Kira examined the dagger briefly.It looked like it was made out of bone.The bright red of her blood standing out in stark contrast against the white.
Losing interest, Kira let the dagger clatter to the floor as she eyed Mars.“You’ve picked up a few tricks since we last did this dance.”
Compressedkiand the ability to manufacture weapons out of his own bones.
Nice.
It had to hurt.Though you wouldn’t be able to tell from his expression.
Mars allowed himself the smallest of smiles.“And you are not as helpless without yourkias they were expecting.”
“Who isthey?”Kira asked.
The forty-three?The Tsavitee?Someone else?
Light enveloped Mars.“You won’t get that answer from me.”
Kira squinted, nearly blinded by the light’s searing intensity.
