Kaldean Chronicles: Kaldean Sunset (Book I) (15 page)

Yuri was so close to her. Hi
s legs were spread out. He whipped her in the face. At the same time, Antoni felt the fur resting against his temples.

'Get off! Get off! No! You killed her!” He tried to scream and fight, but he couldn't. Instead, he had the undeniable urge to stop and fall on the ground. When he closed his eyes, Yuri was holding the limp child and Illya was lying dead on the ground.

Antoni woke up in a ship, on a metal table surrounded by fleshy walls with Magnus staring over him and a group of Larvos attending to instruments by his sides. He let his eyes get used to the colors first. The red and black, when combined with his memories of what happened were overwhelming, but after a second he was able to regain his composure and ask what he needed to ask.

“I don't know if I can trust what I saw. Tell me what happened.”

“When they attacked Illya, you started to freak out. You shot several Larvos.”

“I thought she was so beautiful. I felt sorry for her. She was standing there, screaming, holding the baby.”

“Holding the robot.”

“Yes, but they were alive. Are they dead, Magnus?'

“I don't know.”