Destroyer by AK Nevermore
You can run from your past, but that doesn’t mean it won’t follow…
On an alternate earth, a cataclysm has altered a subset of the population. Talents are persecuted for their psychic and physical mutations, giving rise to two conflicting societies based upon maintaining genetic purity. And the Source, a shadowy corporate entity dependent upon the exploitation of captive Talents, is hunting them…
Three years before the events in Breaker, Flynn Scot is restless.
Stationed with a mercenary unit in the Deep South on a suicide mission, the urge to return North is eating at him. Coming up against the Source as they try to subjugate another portion of the globe is par for the course, but this time something’s different.
And it’s not just the arrival of a survey crew from Glynfyls.
Saddled with babysitting the handful of Talents, Flynn discovers they’ve been sent down—and set up—to instigate a war between the Northern Territories and the Corporation. He finds himself being drawn into the North’s politics, and drawn out of anonymity. Then, when the operation goes sideways, can he turn a blind-eye to the fall out, or will he come to terms with the fact that destiny isn’t done with him?
Destroyer is a dystopian sci-fi short and a prequel to Breaker, set in the world of the Price of Talent series.