The Chronicles of Riddick - Alan Dean Foster [118]
EPILOGUE
All he wanted was to be left alone. That’s all he’d ever wanted. But there were forces at work that would not leave him to himself. He had never backed away from a challenge in his life. When men refused to leave him be, he had dealt with them. When governments had refused to leave him be, he had dealt with them. Now the universe, it seemed, refused to leave him be.
Very well. He would deal with the universe.
He became aware that a senior Necromonger officer was hovering nearby, apparently waiting for something. When he turned to the man, the armored commander took one more step forward.
“Your orders, Lord Marshal.”
Lord Marshal. Nothing about the sound of it rang true. But he had to do something. He had to respond. What could he do? Was there anything, anything left, that he wanted to do? Roused from his introspection by need and circumstance, the somber man on the throne finally said evenly, “To the Threshold.”
The commander was clearly taken aback. “The Threshold, Lord Marshal? But the people are not prepared. They have not been properly purified and do not know the Way. They have . . .”
Black goggles turned to him. “Are you questioning my order?”
“No, Lord Marshal, it is only that—” Breaking off, the bewildered officer dipped his head slightly and started to turn away, mentally preparing himself to pass along the extraordinary command.
“One more thing,” the brooding man on the throne added, halting the officer in mid-stride. “Don’t call me Lord Marshal.
“My name is Riddick.”
By Alan Dean Foster
Published by Ballantine Books
THE BLACK HOLE
CACHALOT
DARK STAR
THE METROGNOME AND OTHER STORIES
MIDWORLD
NOR CRYSTAL TEARS
SENTENCED TO PRISM
SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE
STAR TREK® LOGS ONE–TEN
VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD
. . . WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE . . .
MAD AMOS
THE HOWLING STONES
PARALLELITIES
STAR WARS®: THE APPROACHING STORM
IMPOSSIBLE PLACES
DROWNING WORLD
THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK
The Icerigger Trilogy:
ICERIGGER
MISSION TO MOULOKIN
THE DELUGE DRIVERS
The Adventures of Flinx of the Commonwealth:
FOR LOVE OF MOTHER-NOT
THE TAR-AIYN-KRANG
ORPHAN STAR
THE END OF THE MATTER
BLOODHYPE
FLINX IN FLUX
MID-FLINX
REUNION
FLINX’S FOLLY
SLIDING SCALES
RUNNING FROM THE DEITY
The Damned:
BOOK ONE: A CALL TO ARMS
BOOK TWO: THE FALSE MIRROR
BOOK THREE: THE SPOILS OF WAR
The Founding of the Commonwealth:
PHYLOGENESIS
DIRGE
DIUTURNITY’S DAWN
The Taken Trilogy:
LOST AND FOUND
THE LIGHT-YEARS BENEATH MY FEET
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