Ambassador 7: The Last Frontier by Patty Jansen

Author:Patty Jansen [Jansen, Patty]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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THAYU AND I stared at each other.

“Here is our proof,” I said. “They take in people who are ill and have no money, promise them a cure and medicine, and turn them into Tamerians.”

“And that happens in Barresh as well.”

“We need to record all this for evidence.” And I needed to get in touch with Lenka Trnkova, who had done the initial investigation of people without ID. I could get her to join up her data about faceless assassins who had murdered heads of state with information about people who had come through here, and I could talk to the police in New Zealand about the men who had been killed in their attack on us.

While I ran around taking pictures, Veyada and Thayu took data dumps of as many pieces of equipment as possible in the room.

When I finished, I searched through the computer system, finding a database with names, their origin, and a list of programs that the people were in.

“Come on, let’s go,” Thayu said.

I agreed with that. We’d been here far longer than we intended. It was revealing and important, but we still didn’t know whether we could use any of the trucks, and someone would certainly turn up to check on their project soon. And we were still in a wildlife park surrounded by angry elephants.

Thayu tucked her scanner inside her armour. I took my reader off the connection cushion, stuffed it inside my shirt and zipped up my jacket. It would be too hot, but it was not to be helped.

We made our way out of the lab, through the connecting room into the underground passage, where it was still stuffy and breathless.

We were about to go up the stairs to the concrete plate trapdoor, when a sharp thunk rang through the building.

We stopped. Thayu, who was in front of me, took her gun out of the arm bracket. Veyada stood so close behind me that I could hear his breath.

We listened, but the only sound that reached this room was the muffled call of some bird and crickets outside.

Blood roared in my ears.

Thayu continued, slowly, step by step, into the upstairs room. I followed her and Veyada came up behind me. Would we close the trapdoor to hide the fact that someone had been here? They probably knew about it already, even if Thayu had not been able to locate any bugs. Closing it would make a noise. Thayu went to the door and into the hallway. I was the last to leave the room, and pressed the panel as we went out. The door’s mechanism started humming.

Now I could hear footsteps. A door clanged open. A man spoke in a language I didn’t recognise.

Veyada pulled me into another room—the one with the hazard suits. Two or three men tromped past in the hallway, heavy boots on the tiled floor.

They went into the room with the trap door.

As one, Thayu and Veyada shot into the corridor, half-dragging me with them.

We ran through the big hall with the grader and tractors.

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