Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 5 - Sex Stories

Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 5

... underworld figures who would profit off this ongoing conflict.”

“Well it’s clear this man has been helping the Pack fight against Uther for years, supplying resources, funds, and information, and by extension, helping the Profane. It’s no question that he is the third side of this terrorist triangle. I’m going to stop in the lab and speak to the prisoners once more. After that, I noticed that this castle has a library, so I think I’ll spend some time researching.”

Noah returned to his lab, though it wasn’t in the same place it had always been. With all the work going on and all the equipment Lupin’s forces had seized, Noah’s lab had been moved out of the evidence room and into a much larger chamber. Here, the prince’s experts, those who had struggled to make sense of the parasites and the Pack’s tech, now worked as his assistants and maintained the lab while he was in the field.

Noah walked along a row of cylindrical tanks, each large enough to hold a person and used for that purpose. Floating within were captured fiends, dismembered and heavily sedated. Along with a feeding tube supplying them blood, other lines were hooked up to their bodies and parasites, collecting various substances for research, such as venom and the stabilizing agent.

“This solution in Subject 8’s tank looking murky. Lower the pH and add some avedicine.”

“Yes sir!”

“What are the NTO readings on Subject 3?”

“7.8, sir!”

“Good, begin harvesting the spinal fluid and dose him with ...

... eight milligrams of levenol.”

“Yes sir!”

With their fancy robes and long beards, these learned sages, who had initially scoffed at Noah’s explanations, now followed him around like lovestruck schoolgirls, eager to receive more otherworldly knowledge. He was careful with how much he gave them, such as advanced alchemy and specific compounds. Noah stopped before a tank holding a different subject. Rather than a fiend, it was the ghoul captured with the middle echelon members. Most of his bone armor had been harvested, and he hung in a suspended animation like the others.

“What do we have on Subject 4?”

“Subject 4’s parasite seems to be a different breed from the fiends, with much more potent venom. Any attempt to inject it into other subjects causes violent rejection and extensive mutations. Just look at poor Subject 12.”

Noah looked to the end of the line at a destroyed tank, where a twisted mass of bone stood, looking like a gnarled, diseased tree.

“Hmmm, an extremely high level of compatibility must be required. How are the prisoners?”

“Very eager to talk to you, sir.”

Noah left the lab and went down to the dungeon, where howls and snarls mixed with the rattling of iron bars and chains. Before Noah arrived, such sounds were due to the captured fiends’ refusal to cooperate, thrashing around in their cages like wild animals. Any attempts to question them were met with screaming curses and threats, proclaiming the downfall of Uther and the rise of a new ...