(eng) Michael Formichelli - Orion Spur 01 by Blood Siren

Author:Blood Siren [Siren, Blood]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Ikuzlu City: Solan District, Kosfanter

41:1:3 CST (J2400:3062)

It wasn’t until after they downloaded the contents of her implant and determined that she didn’t have anything to do with the baron’s murder that the Confederate Space Authority released Cygni to the Ikuzlu Police Department for violating the Media Access Law. From the standpoint of comfort, the eight days leading up to this event were better than the last two spent in Ikuzlu’s holding cells beneath police headquarters. In CSA custody, at least, she’d had her own two by two concrete cell.

I guess I was lucky, she thought, staring at the stainless-steel funnel built into one corner of the chamber that served as a universal toilet for all species. She’d been forced to use it in front of her eleven cellmates, the Volgoth officers guarding the hexagonal area girded by thick, gleaming metal bars, and whoever was watching through the black sensor dome hanging from the ceiling. She’d never had a problem using public bathrooms before, but this kind of exposure took the word public to whole new levels. Luckily only two of her cellmates were human like her, and both were female. The rest of her cell mates, unless they shared her explorer’s nature, probably weren’t interested in a little skin from other species—

Well, unless they fall into the twenty-percent group the last Spur Herald survey found who said they would try a relationship with a sentient species other than their own, she thought. One in five meant two of her cellmates would probably be curious. She’d thought a lot about that, and about other useless trivia over the last few days. Without her recorded data or her implant, which had been turned off upon her arrest, there was little else to do but think in circles about nothing and try to avoid offending people.

The four Achinoi largely kept to themselves. Dressed in loose-fitting, stained pants and gray vests, the three males and single female had spent the last two days staring at the pair of Volgoths sharing their space and murmuring to each other in their native tongue. Each had the tips of the quills coming off their shoulders and scalp dyed in red, green, and purple. Some of their quills looked untouched, but Cygni wasn’t sure that was because they actually were, or if it was because they were dyed in a color her eyes, set to human norms when she was arrested, couldn’t see. The Volgoths, two males, were dressed in synthesized leathers with red-and-blue rags tied around their right arms.

Rival gangs, she’d surmised yesterday. They must not have been big time enough for her to know them, but their dress and how they were acting gave it away. She was glad there were only two in here with her. The other humans, from their smart-cloth jump suits, looked to be middle-class and non-violent offenders like herself. Of the remaining three members of her involuntary company she recognized only one species. The Orgnan was taller than her by

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