James Axler - Outlander 02 - Destiny Run

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Axler, James - Outlanders 02 - Destiny Run

The Dragon Ring

The yellow gem eyes of the dragon suddenly flashed with a pale golden glow.

The glow became a shimmering halo, spreading from the eyes, dancing in a

miniature borealis around the horned head.

The filament popped out of the open mouth again. A minute dark speck, almost

too tiny for the unaided eye to detect, was attached to the end of it.

With a surge of horror, Kane realized that Baptiste's speculation that the dragon

ring was a surgical instrument was probably more accurate than she ever

dreamed.

The filament had sampled his genetic structure, and whatever stunningly

complex and miniaturized mechanism was inside the ring, it had manufactured

an implant with his own blood and cells as a nonrejectable sheath.

It wasn't sorcery, but it was no less terrifying.

Destiny Run

#2 in the Outlander series

James Axler

A GOLD EAGLE BOOK FROM WORLDWIDE

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Axler, James - Outlanders 02 - Destiny Run

TORONTO • NEWYORK • LONDON AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY •

HAMBURG • STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID •

WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND

If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is

stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher, and

neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped

book."

Again, for Melissa—

Who understands the connection

(and the difference) between inspiration and perspiration.

The pangs,

The internal pangs, are ready— the dread strife

Of poor humanity's afflicted will

Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny.

—Wordsworth

First edition September 1997

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Axler, James - Outlanders 02 - Destiny Run

ISBN 0-373-63815-9

DESTINY RUN

of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or

other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography,

photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is

forbidden without the written permission of the publisher, Worldwide Library,

225 Duncan Mill Road, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3B 3K9.

All characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the

author and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or

names. They are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or

unknown to the author, and all incidents are pure invention.

® and TM are trademarks of the publisher. Trademarks indicated with ® are

registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Canadian Trade

Marks Office and in other countries.

Printed in U.S.A.

Chapter 1

She came awake slowly. First the black void turned to gray, then to a pale,

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shimmering yellow.

A cloying pain enwrapped her, pounding at her head rhythmically, in cadence

with her heartbeat. She tried to open her eyes, but she couldn't see anything and

she wondered rather aloofly if she was blind. For a reason she could not

understand, something sticky and thick sealed her eyes shut. Experimentally she

touched the tip of her tongue to her lips and she tasted a coppery, salty tang. Her

stumbling thoughts groped for what it might be. Finally she realized it was

blood, and considering the sharp pain in her head, she knew it had to be her

blood.

Brigid Baptiste ground her teeth and tried to move. Cramping needles of agony

shot up her shoulders and arms. A persistent pressure compressed her wrists,

squeezed them so tightly her hands were no more than numb, half-remembered

appendages at the ends of her arms. By a tentative exploration with her

fingertips, she felt strands of rawhide wrapped tightly around her wrists. She was

helpless, blind and sick. Nausea was a clawed animal trying to tear its way out of

her stomach. It was all she could do to swallow the column of burning bile

working its way up her throat.

Brigid tested her legs, shifting them slightly. They were not bound, though they

were stiff, and she realized they had been crooked in an unnatural position

beneath her.

She didn't brace herself with them. Even though her thoughts moved like half-

frozen mud, she knew it was best to keep as silent and as motionless as possible.

Through her eyelids she saw a wavering yellow-red glow, and over the reek of

wood smoke, she smelled mutton boiling. She heard the murmur of voices,

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speaking incomprehensible words.

She squeezed her left eyelid as though she were squinting fiercely, and a tear

formed. By arching her eyebrow as high as she could, she tried to prise her eye

open. The effort sparked more pain in her head, along her right temple. She kept

up the squinting and eyebrow arching, and fluid oozed from the duct in her left

eye. The tears slowly dissolved the dried blood, and on her tenth attempt, her

upper eyelid peeled stickily away from the lower.

Flames danced from the bonfire several yards away. Men and women sat around

it in a great circle. The wild horde from the mountain valleys of Khaldzan sat

with the barely leashed eagerness of great cats, waiting for their prey to move so

they could start their cruel game all over again.

Brigid realized she was in the same place, the same position before she had

fallen into the pit of unconsciousness. Long spears had been driven deep and

lashed together to make a crude framework, and from this frame she hung, wrists

tied to the wooden shafts by leather thongs.

Two other makeshift scaffolds stood close by. Adrian and Davis hung limply

between them, ragged red scarecrows. On the regular staff of Cerberus redoubt,

they had taken the mat-trans jump with her on their information gathering

mission. They had been scourged without mercy, and the ground around them

glistened damp and bloody.

Bautu had wielded the lash, and Brigid remembered watching him cut both of

his victims with great care, the tapered steel tip of the long oiled whip singing

and flaying the skin like a flexible flensing knife.

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