Tales from the KnM Blade Universe: Volume I - Retribution

By Kixi Rajki

After a bold attempt to rescue her captured comrades from a prison controlled by an enemy Bladestrider, Züncålazin Rajki is ultimately confronted with the daunting prospect of a deadly face-off with that very same foe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kixi Rajki
• Release date: Sep 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005845643

Kixi Rajki

Kixi Rajki, birth name Kristijana Rajki is a bilingual interpreter as well as translator, an Information Technology guru (She’s a former I.T. Specialist) who lives in Melbourne with her spouse Mako Jhasmin Ikeda. She is the creator of the KnM Blade universe, and the author of all material and works in the ever growing and expanding series. To view more information beyond the completed titles of her KnM Blade universe featured here at Smashwords.com, please click on her website link featured on this page to access any details for titles currently in progress; current timelines and proposed timelines of the KnM Blade universe; and other things about her and her works.For as long as she can remember, she's been mesmerised by the extraordinary world of sci-fi– most notably Star Wars and Star Trek. She loves reading and writing, as well as finding new ways to drive readers crazy with twisting plots that will leave them sitting on the edge of their seats. She also has a deep love for video gaming, fantasy, football (soccer), formula 1, cars, science, languages and Japanese martial arts, notably Aikido, Kendo and Kenjutsu; she is fluent in English, Italian, Spanish and Croatian, and speaks basic German, Sicilian, Greek and Japanese. She has also created her own fictional language of Züncålidiom which is a feature of her KnM Blade Universe.She enjoys being around her cats– she most definitely is a cat lover, relishes in the company of her family, friends, and, is especially crazy about her wife Jhasmin, the love of her life.Her favourite quote: It doesn't matter what someone tells you, but who tells you.

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Tales from the KnM Blade Universe

Volume I

Retribution

Kixi Rajki

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Tales from the KnM Blade Universe

VOLUME 1: RETRIBUTION

About the Author

Tales from the KnM Blade Universe

VOLUME I: RETRIBUTION

By Kixi Rajki

In the year CE 3042.

Situated on a desolate moon in a nameless system in a remote region of the Sajnen Neutral Zone, the prison hold on Bladestrider Raven Skyhawk’s military base of operations proved to be everything I had imagined it would be. A cavernous vault of steel, it was filled with catwalks, checkpoints, and identity scanners. The detention cells were arrayed to the right side of the main access tunnel, stacked six high in four long rows. There had to be a thousand units, and the volume of yellow light pouring through the see-through blaster proof doors suggested that most were occupied. Locating Braj’tec’s cell was going to be a problem, and I didn’t have time for problems. If I expected to have any chance of killing Raven, I had to find him before she found me— and she had half the security teams on the base already searching for me.

The clank clank of boot heels on deck steel echoed up the corridor. A pair of guards rounded a corner about fifteen metres ahead, emerging from a short side hall labelled ‘Infirmary Checkpoint’. I pulled my prisoner— Maeve, a female security officer now wearing my own Zhann Alliance uniform— across to my side, opposite the guards.

There is no brave option here, Maeve. I spoke in a low voice, addressing the woman by the name on the Prison Guard uniform that I had taken from her. If you even meet their eyes, I’ll kill you all, and still do what I came to do. Understand?

If I wanted to do something stupid, I would have done it when you captured me in the processing centre, Maeve replied. I’d rather live.

Good, I said. I’d rather let you.

Maeve was a couple of centimetres shorter than me, and a little smaller, too. So my uniform was a tad baggy on her— but only someone with a sharp-eye would notice the poor fit. Maeve’s