Chapter 79: Chapter 79

Maya Maya, her tracker and the Ka’s arrived at a ruined stone structure somewhere in the middle of an ocean.

“She’s gone,” Ka breathed. There was a white plastic portable toilet unharmed in the ruined cell.

“Why didn’t you get Ellie first? Why the hell did you go after Brian? She’s gone, what if we never find her?” Maya was absolutely livid, but the virtually floating Ka’s exhibited little emotion.

“We can feel Brian, he is not shielded,” he or they or whatever the thing in front of Maya that used to be her boyfriend said.

“Where is she now?” she demanded, trying to keep her emotions in check at having come so close to finding her and losing her. Maya’s eyes threatened to start leaking, which was the last thing she needed right then.

“Can’t feel her at all,” he murmured.

Maya looked at the destruction of the walls, with no rubble, or any sign of the missing sections of stone. She knew which weapon had done it.

“So he got her,” Maya’s eyes filled involuntarily, and she was unable to shake the tears off. “At least she didn’t suffer, just gone in an instant.” she muttered through tears, before rounding on Ka. “Let’s get the bastard, we’ve got Steve, so let’s get Brian.”

Shortly after that, they were staring at him, or the spot where he had just vanished from. They followed him until they got a lock on him. Maya engulfed all of them to the canyon, not wanting to disclose both their hiding place, and the place they were holding Steve captive, so she didn’t take him to the ship.

He was trying to leave, but Maya just aimed to engulf him back to the spot on which he was standing, which effectively held him there.

“I could do this all day,” Maya taunted him like she felt he must have taunted Ellie. “Where is she? Where did you take her?”

A very pissed off Brian sneered in such a similar fashion to Steve, it wasn’t surprising that they had spent so much time together over the past seventy or more years.

“She’s in a cell, let me take you there,” he feigned innocence while he spoke, a definite sign he was lying.

“Been there, bought the t-shirt. Where is she?” Maya really didn’t want to know the answer.

“Not as bright as you think you are then, sweetie,” he scoffed, while Maya contemplated his death.

“I’m not the one frozen in space, who is admitting to being surplus to requirements,” she sniped back.

“Who said I’m surplus to requirements? Don’t you want the blonde bitch back?” Brian was clearly struggling, and the fear was creeping into his eyes, if not his tone.

“Well we have Steve and he clearly knows more than you,” she returned rapid fire. “All you know is that she was in the cell.”

“I wouldn’t be so sure about that,” he mocked, but panic was setting in.

“Did Steve kill her with the anti-matter gun?” demanded Maya, as the Ka’s wandered over to Brian, apparently purposelessly, but the hard look on their face gave them away.

“No, he did not kill her with an anti-matter gun,” he spelled out deliberately. Maya realised he wasn’t quite answering the question.

Ka’s hands locked around the helpless man’s throat and slowly commenced applying pressure.

“Is she dead?” demanded Maya, as their hands constricted like a boa around a rat.