KAYELLE ALLEN( Cont.) BRINGER OF CHAOS: THE ORIGIN OF PIETAS
KAYELLE ALLEN( Cont.) BRINGER OF CHAOS: THE ORIGIN OF PIETAS
BLURB EXCERPT
Pietas is an Ultra, an all-but-immortal warrior who leads the fight against the oppressive human race that created his people. When he’ s captured and exiled to an alien world, his only ally is Six, a human who’ s been as betrayed as he was. To cross the continent and rejoin the other Ultras, Pietas must overcome his distrust of humans, and rely on the mortal. Birth made them enemies. Fate made them friends. But truth devastates them both.
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At the appointed time, Pietas entered the elevator with the council, ignoring warning looks from his father. His mother tugged his father to the rear of the elevator, and cast a hopeful smile at her son. His father was newly reborn, his mother aged. How well it reflected their differences. He had always been hot-tempered; she, wise.
Pietas turned away, wishing he did not have to disappoint, but he could not in good conscience carry out the council’ s command. Lock his people into a treaty with human oath breakers? Never. The council would be furious with him. As usual. Dessy arrived as the doors were closing, and slid into place on his right as second-in-command.
On his sister’ s bosom sat an oval-shaped gold and black brooch, the glass front of which revealed a plait of his hair interwoven in a complex pattern. She said nothing, but her empathic outpouring of assent made itself felt. Still, she had voted against him.
Would he never understand this woman? Shoulder-to-shoulder, they faced front.
The sting of emotions in the small space bombarded him from all angles. His skin twitched, and he rubbed his arms as if cold.
A cadre of humans waited in the assigned receiving chamber. Ten humans in exchange for ten members of the Ultra Council, as the council had requested. While the Ultras were on board Enderium Six, the humans would act as hostages. If anything happened to the Ultras, the humans would die lingering deaths.
A crawling-ant sensation on his skin escalated to a sting. These creatures hid some secret he did not yet fathom. Pietas bit the inside of his cheek, fighting the urge to lash out, to rip away the life of these mortals.