Blood Ocean by Weston Ochse

Author:Weston Ochse [Ochse, Weston]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Thrillers, Science Fiction, Adventure
ISBN: 9781907992865
Publisher: Abaddon
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

IT TOOK TWO days to plan the mission. Two days of Ivanov talking about movies and strategies and World Wars from a time they could barely envision. Lopez-Larou pointed that out to the old drunk on several occasions, but he’d merely waved her off with the perplexing comment, “It’s all Hollywood anyway. It was never as real as it really was.”

Despite his incoherence, they were eventually ready. Their plan’s success depended on their own boldness, and the Mga Tao’s desire to protect their monkey-backed wards.

They waited until eleven bells before they put the plan in motion. It was important that whatever they did, didn’t come back to haunt them. After consulting with Chito, who was eager to assist, they were ready.

So it was that Kaja, Lopez-Larou, and five of Ivanov’s men walked up the gangway of The University of the Waves. At this time of night, most of those aboard the ship were sleeping. A pair of burley Taos stood at the entry, the orange silk headbands on their foreheads showing their affiliation. Lopez-Larou ignored them. She marched by them and into the ship, her hood pulled forward until her face was hugged in shadow and her hands hidden in the sleeves. The others did the same, following two by two, heads down, pace moderated.

Ivanov’s men were marking the pair; they’d most definitely attempt to bar their way when they left with their packages. She wondered how many Taos would die this night. Two, ten, twenty? It didn’t bother her much. The Taos propagated an outrage. Whether or not they knew it mattered little. At the end of the day she’d trade all of them for someone she cared about.

She followed the path she’d taken earlier, down the halls, past the intersection and onto the landing of the Sports Wing. The room was lit with subdued lighting. Each couch had at least a pair of occupants. The stage was empty, which she privately appreciated. She didn’t know if she could take seeing the naked fat man dance again.

They paused at the top of the stairs, and she searched for Kavika.

Kaja, who’d come to stand beside her, saw him first. He pointed. “There.”

She followed his gesture and saw Kavika lying on a velvet red couch on the other side of the stage, two rows back. She turned and pointed him out to the others.

Then came the hard part.

In order to convince the Water Dogs to help them with more than just the robes from dead Taos, they’d had to promise to retrieve one more monkey-back, a twelve-year-old girl with a cleft lip. She and Kaja searched. Of all those they could see from their position in the room, they identified four girls that could match that description. But an equal number of monkey-backed were turned away from them, so there was no telling how many more there could be.

They left one of Ivanov’s men on the landing, and the rest descended in a slow and stately manner. They’d already garnered

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