The Poet Heroic (The Kota Series) Page 7

  He smiles. “That would be appreciated. I-”

  “Sir!”

  “Evant, can you see-”

  Beathabane stops when suddenly the spotlight goes offline, and the whole room is now dark.

  The same male voice, presumably Evant, calls through the darkness, “My coms aren’t working!”

  “Mine either!” says a new female voice.

  Beathabane responds calmly. “They’ve zapped the power out of the building.”

  The cameraman speaks up. “Ha! Not the whole building! I’ve rigged this thing to run on a looped system that can’t be-”

  “We’d better get out of here,” says Evant. “They’ll storm the stairwell first.”

  “Nocturna,” Beathabane orders, “go check our exit.”

  “Okay, I’m on it,” says the woman.

  The noise of a chair scraping back is loudest over other noises of scuffling.

  “Thank you,” Beathabane must be saying to Kaytrine.

  “Merci,” she answers. She groans angrily, then continues to speak in a stream of Dominion-unauthorized babble.

  “Ah, crap,” says the cameraman. “The power cut must’ve knocked her translator offline too.”

  “That’s exactly what she just said,” says Evant.

  Kaytrine tries in English, “I thank for interview. Okay if I call you… Poet Heroic? That not right. I mean…”

  “No,” laughs Beathabane. “That’s perfect. I’d be honored.”

  “Sir,” says Evant, “we have to go!”

  Sounds of gunfire erupt from some distance away.

  “Yeah, sounds like the end of an interview to me,” says the cameraman.

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  Sunshine Somerville lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She self-published her first book in college in 2004 and has been evolving The Kota Series since she was nine, basing the story on childhood fantasies derived from watching too much X-Men and Star Wars and reading too much The Chronicles of Narnia and A Wrinkle in Time.

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