by Nick Harrow
Out of memory? Fuck that. I had access to a system with memory to spare.
I held my breath and copied Ritual.exe over to DECS.
It took less than ten seconds to copy the file into a temporary directory on the system I was supposed to save. For all I knew, I was about to trigger a virus of truly epic proportions.
And I didn’t care.
If it let me save this woman, I’d take the risk.
I offered up a silent prayer and then executed Ritual.exe.
An explosion of gibberish covered the holographic display, and an eerie chorus of harps burst from the sound system. The smell of incense grew so thick in the air that I half-believed I saw wisps of smoke curl up from the tiled floor around me.
“What did you do?” the orc kidnapper barked. “What have you fucking done?”
“I’m saving your ass!” I shouted over the harps as they swelled to a crescendo.
The characters on the terminal transformed from scrambled ASCII nonsense to pictograms that glowed with golden light.
No, not pictograms.
Hieroglyphics.
My eyes drooped as the strength fled my limbs. My heart thudded slower and slower, and my blood grew cold in my veins. The golden glow faded from the glyphs, leaving behind what looked like dead, gray stone.
“He comes to us!” the cat girl shouted, her voice ecstatic.
And then a gunshot punched through the harps’ wails, and the world went black.
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Alaska Kingdom: American Dragons (Book 8)
Alamosa Arena: American Dragons (Book 9)
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Raider Annihilation: Son of Fire Book 1
Kraken Killjoy: Son of Fire Book 2
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Dungeon Bringer 3
Witch King 1
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Valhalla Virus is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Nick Harrow is a former game designer and gold miner who now spends his days telling stories about daring men, dangerous women, and devilish villains.
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