Exodus Arcon Chronicles of Arcon Book 2

By Janice Seagraves

Arriving at Earth, tragedy strikes. Because Arcon justice is quick and brutal, Blade, Keefe, and Paz must continue to pretend they're co-mates.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Janice Seagraves
• Release date: Jul 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005311148

Janice Seagraves

Janice Seagraves grew up with a deep love of science fiction and adventure stories. Always the consummate artist, she traded in her paint brush for a laptop to write breathless life-affirming novels that celebrate enduring love.

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Exodus Arcon

Book 2

By

Janice Seagraves

Copyright© 2021 Janice Seagraves

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This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, any place, events, or occurrences, is purely coincidental. The characters and story lines are created from the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, except for incidental references to public figures, well-known products, and geographical locations, which are used fictitiously with no intent to disparage their products or services.

CHAPTER ONE

Blade jerked out of the nightmare with a gasp and stared at the warning lights flashing like his mother’s angry eyes had so long ago, before she’d sent him away. A cold sweat broke out.

I’m not the same sad, wretched offspring anymore. I am Blade, a warrior and survivor.

An emergency alarm intruded on his gloomy thoughts, jolting adrenalin through him and driving the melatonin from his system. Groping for the manual awakening button below his palm, he pushed it. The IV slipped out of his arm, and a moment later, the clear plasglass dome retracted. When he sat up, he nearly fell over, but steadied himself on the edge of the capsule. Feeling around for his weapons, he couldn’t find them.

What was going on? Where was my blaster and battle armor? Was the cavern being invaded? He tried to remember which cavern he had been assigned to this time, but couldn’t focus. Am I still at Yelena?

Where’re the medics? Blade croaked, his voice dry and rough. Damn medics, we’re in an emergency situation. He needed a stimulant in order to go into action.

His gaze took in the long, narrow room with the brushed silver walls, and rows of hibernation units. This was no cavern on Arcon but a spaceship.

A couple of other units opened, and the silver-dressed, groggy inhabitants were slowly climbing out.

Blade frowned. Civilians? Why am I in with the civilians?

He rolled out and landed on all fours, which stung his hands and broke off three of his overgrown, claw-like nails. Goddess.

Standing proved to be a challenge as he pulled to his feet on a neighbor’s unit. Move legs, move. It was hard to walk, especially since his toenails had grown out and around his space booties.

Blade shoved his long white hair out of the way. His warrior topknot, which had been on top of his crown, tapped him on the butt with every movement. Peering down into the interior of the capsule he rested on, he recognized his sibling, Keefe.

His memory returned in a flash. He’d been placed in the capsule beside Keefe because they were pretending to be co-mates. Blade hit the awakening cycle. His podling frowned, and then his crimson eyes blinked. A few minutes later, the lid slid back.

"Why did you wake me instead