Burning Day (Innate Wright Book 1) by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace [Grace, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Devine Destinies
Published: 2018-02-16T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Nyvett watched the burn with a calculated eye. Iff was a little slow off the trigger, but that could have been the clan member in charge of the signal.

When the burn was over and the canned message was replayed, Nyvett walked over to the edge of the platform and drew the lot with ten others.

“Open your hands.”

She turned her closed fist over, and the green stone was glowing in her palm.

“Well, that settles that.” She dropped the stone back in the bin where the whites had been drawn.

She nodded to her mother, aunts, and cousins before walking to the zipline platform and grabbing the bar.

She could see other refuelers heading for their bots, and she didn’t want to be the last. Nyvett jumped off the platform and slid away from the clashing parties and down to the relative silence of the metal ticking from heat exposure and the scent of burnt fuel.

The platform swayed slightly as she landed, and with the normal and precise motions she favoured, she set the station to refuel Iff.

The motion of the injection system was hypnotizing. It was like she was watching a snake that could strike metal. The port that accepted the new offering was a tiny target, but the platform station struck it without fail, like the snakes in the deep desert.

When the fuelling was finished, she retracted the system, and the coils were returning to storage when the alarm sounded. “This is not a drill. Code Angur-dock. Get the bots to the city. We are under attack.”

She slid down the pole and was headed to Iff in under a minute. She pressed her palm to the reader and stated, “Override Norm-Iff-Beta. Permission to come aboard for pseudo pilot action.”

The secondary screen came around and required proof of identity. She pressed her fingers in, felt the sting and stepped inside the bot when the access door opened.

“Hello, Iff.”

“Nyvett. It has been a while. You haven’t been on standard rotation.” Iff’s rich tones were the same as they always were. It didn’t matter what the crisis was, he was calm.

She crossed her arms as the lift took her ever upward. “You know. Work. There is always more paperwork to do.”

“Indeed. It appears that I am being taken out of storage.”

Nyvett nodded toward the camera in the lift. “That is correct. All bots are being taken to the city for proper pilots to be installed.”

“So, how am I getting there?”

The lift stopped and the door opened. “I am going to drive you if you will give me some pointers.”

“That depends. What are you willing to offer me?”

Nyvett paused. “What?”

“I am the only bot supplied with the surface-to-air weaponry that can make a difference right now. What are you willing to offer me in exchange for my assistance targeting those missiles?”

She was stunned. “Are you blackmailing me?”

“I want a pilot. I don’t want to have to fight you for access to your nervous system the entire time.”

“My what?”

“For full access to my systems, I need full access to yours.

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