Spirit Walk_ Enemy of My Enemy (Book 2) - Christie Golden [87]
Suddenly frantic, Moset made a grab for the phaser. “No, please—”
Kaz fired and Moset collapsed, unconscious. Gradak had never set the phaser to kill, only to stun.
Take the body back, boy, Gradak told a shocked Jarem Kaz. I’ve done what I wanted to do.
You didn’t kill him. You never intended to kill him.
I did something better, and Gradak’s joy was fierce. I broke him.
Chapter 24
B’ELANNA COULDN’T SLEEP. Her dreams were painted in good Klingon shades of red and black, fraught with the sounds of shouting and the clash of bat’leths. She awoke feeling exhausted, as if she had no sleep at all.
She had just reached for Miral, who was squalling her hunger to the world, when a slight movement caught her eye.
Someone had slipped a piece of parchment under her door.
Moving quickly, cradling her daughter in one arm, B’Elanna leaped from the skins on the floor and tugged the heavy door open. She glanced left, then right. Nothing, not even the sound of echoing footsteps. Frowning, she closed the door and picked up the paper, awkwardly opening it with one hand.
She went cold as she read the words.
You and the Kuvah’Magh are in danger.
That was all; no sense of where the danger might lurk, what form it might take. How very cryptic, she thought, focusing on her annoyance in an attempt to diminish the fear that rushed through her.
She thought about contacting Tom, but decided against it. This was Klingon business, taking place on a Klingon world. She would get to the bottom of this alone, and as she angrily crumpled the paper and held her daughter protectively to her breast, she made a vow:
“No one will hurt you, Miral Paris. I will keep you safe. By the human and Klingon blood that flows through both our veins, by the love of the man who is father and husband, by every ounce of strength I have in my body—I will keep you safe!”
Sekaya opened her eyes to see Jarem Kaz smiling down at her. “Welcome back,” he said. “Looks like you had quite the journey.” He tapped his combadge. “Kaz to Chakotay. Someone’s awake and would like to see you.”
“On my way,” Chakotay replied.
Memories of her spirit walk flooded back to Sekaya. She reached for her stomach, but Kaz caught her wrist gently.
“It’s healed, but you shouldn’t touch it right now. Let your body recover a bit.”
“What happened?”
Kaz filled her in on the fight and the injury she received. “You should have died, Sekaya.”
Though she was still drained, her lips curved in a smile. “You sound disappointed.”
“No doctor is disappointed when a patient that should have been a corpse is alive and well,” he replied, “but we do get puzzled when it goes against everything we know to be true.”
Sekaya thought of Blue Water Dreamer. She would see him again one day, she knew; he kept his promises. But she also knew that she was willing to wait for that ultimate meeting.
“It’s a long story,” she said. “Maybe later.”
Chakotay strode swiftly into sickbay and reached for her hand. “Well, hey there,” he said.
“I’ll be in my office if you need me,” Kaz said.
The two siblings nodded, but their eyes were for each other.
“You were amazing,” Chakotay said.
“No, it is you who are amazing,” Sekaya said. “Telepathy, telekinesis, phasing in and out of time—can you still do it?”
He shook his head. “Even I, prepared as I was, couldn’t hold it without you supporting me. It’s going to be some time before humans can safely handle that kind of mental power.”
“So they all faded? Your abilities?”
He hesitated. “Well, there is one thing. I don’t need to use the akoonah to spirit-walk anymore. I can just close my eyes and I’m there.”
“Maybe the rest will come back to you. When you’re ready for it.”
He shrugged. “Right now I don’t care about Sky Spirit powers. I’m just glad that my sister and I are all right.”
“Kaz said you brought