Astro-Nuts by Logan Hunder

Author:Logan Hunder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2018-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

12.

COOL HAND KIM

KIM TRIED TO WARN him. She really did. She avoided eye contact, she didn’t laugh at any of his jokes, she pulled her feet away when she felt him nudge them, and she broke two of his fingers when he tried stroking her hair. The guy just wasn’t picking up what she was putting down. It was for that reason she didn’t feel particularly guilty for putting him down, much as she probably should have.

Peters’s broken face lay attached to his broken body at her feet, staring aimlessly up into the ceiling with the same droopy scumbag look he wore in life. This probably could have been avoided if she didn’t smile and offer a sweet “sorry” after her initial assault. That was probably what made him think he’d had any kind of chance. It was a shame about his partner, though. While the fellow’s IQ had seemed about on par with the room temperature, he was at least able to comprehend the most basic of social queues. Shame he wasn’t as good at noticing the antisocial ones; a bit ironic, really, given his profession.

Satisfying as this little episode was, it severely cut short her time to prime an escape. Thankfully, none of their records or other identity-recognizing software gave them any reason to take extra precautions with her when she first arrived. However, soon as someone took a glance through the security camera and saw her holding a chair and standing over some mangled bodies, this was going to turn from a handicap match into a Royal Rumble. It was time to get creative.

Careful not to get blood on her shoes, she half-danced around her quarry and inspected his files on the table. They were not unlike the accounts she had already read during her hiring process. It was reassuring to see Whisper was every bit as vanilla as she claimed. It was also gratifying to see her suspicions about Donald not actually graduating from SIT confirmed. She chuckled. It was such a ridiculous claim to make in applying for what was essentially a secretary job for a garbage truck. And then there was Willy’s file. It seemed to fit the bill for what she had seen so far, with the abysmal psych evaluation noting such character flaws as poor critical-thinking skills and remarkable vulnerability to peer pressure. Apparently, he also rarely washed his hands after using the bathroom. Sounds like the kind of guy who gets accidentally left behind during a daring space jail rescue, Kim thought. Tragic, but happens. He used to work here. He’ll be fine.

Unless she got her act together, however, she wouldn’t be leaving either. The clock was still ticking. Having procured what little information she could, she tackled her next obstacle: the door. It was a real chore of a door, too; not simple steel or even titanium like pretty much every other door that’d been made in the last couple hundred years. It felt like being trapped inside a bank vault.

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