The Renegade Akseli Cyborg by Dianne Duvall EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Dianne Duvall
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RACHEL STRODE DOWN A long corridor, so distracted that she
nearly bumped into a Lasaran woman who walked in the opposite
direction. This corridor was one of Rachel’s favorites because it boasted
windows constructed of unbreakable stovicun crystal that gave passersby a
stunning view.
Or perhaps it only stunned her and the rest of the “Earthling” contingent.
Her lips twitched. Even after four months aboard the Lasaran warship
Kandovar, being called Earthling made her fight the urge to laugh. The term
simply resurrected too many memories of sci-fi movies in which aliens with
robotic voices said, “Greetings, Earthlings. We come in peace.” But out
here in space, people tended to identify each other by their planet of origin.
Rachel shook her head. Out here in space. Life could take some odd turns.
And this was one of the oddest and most momentous she had ever
experienced in her long life.
The first had struck during the era historians often referred to as the Dark
Ages. Rachel hadn’t been as lucky as some of her Immortal Guardian
brethren who were born into the aristocracy. Her parents had been poor.
Hunger had haunted every waking moment. Only two of her siblings had
lived past the age of three. And because all of them had been born with
unique gifts that other people lacked, danger had stalked them.
Viking attacks in Britania had made life even more perilous, as she had
learned to her detriment when she was slain during one.
Or nearly slain.
She would’ve been slain if a vampire hadn’t found her before an axe
could. Vampires relished chaos and destruction. They flocked to it like flies
to corpses, eager to feast upon the weak and wounded. To this day, Rachel
didn’t know why the vampire who found her as she fled had transformed
her instead of killing her. She had no memory of him, only of the terror he’d
instilled. The fear that the shadowy figure pursuing her was one of the
Viking marauders who had slain everyone she loved.
Perhaps the vampire had not yet succumbed to madness.
Immortal Guardians now knew that vampirism resulted from a very rare
virus that behaved more like a symbiotic organism. An alien race—the
Gathendiens—created it in a lab and released it on Earth long ago,
intending to render humanity extinct without war so the evil bastards could
claim the planet, its many resources, and whatever technology remained in
the aftermath.
All humans infected with the virus swiftly succumbed to
insanity and became vampires, having no natural defense against the
progressive brain damage it spawned. But those like Rachel were spared
that fate. The advanced DNA gifted ones were born with not only granted
them special abilities, but also protected them from the more corrosive
aspects of the virus. Hence, they became immortal, receiving the enhanced
strength, speed, heightened senses, and regenerative abilities associated
with vampires without the madness that would drive them to tear each other
apart.
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