David Drake by Kill Ratio

Author:Kill Ratio [Ratio, Kill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14 - TEAMWORK

Yates wasn’t whistling as he reached the door of the branch station, and his silence wasn’t solely a result of the pocks of deadened skin which made it awkward to purse his lips.

He reached toward the announcement plate - as before, there wasn’t anyone visible on the door visor. Before his hand touched the plate, Lieutenant Yesilkov called from behind him, “Hang on, I’ll catch it.”

The overhead light picked out flecks of gray in the patrol officer’s hair as she stepped past Yates with her card out, but those colorless strands only brightened the generally pale blond.

“Nice timing,” she remarked while the door jacked itself open. Her eyes met Yates’ momentarily before she led the way inside and to the left instead of toward the office where he’d found her the day before. “If it’s that good in other ways,” Yesilkov called back over her shoulder, “you must be real popular with the ladies.”

“Couldn’t prove it by the time I’ve spent on the Moon,” the big man grumbled; but though his lips moved, he did not quite voice the words.

“Sonya?” called a man whose head popped out a door they had passed. “Did you see the new duty roster?”

Yesilkov put a hand on Yates’ shoulder as the Entry Division supervisor flattened himself against the lockers that thinned the passage to less than the width in which two humans could pass comfortably. “Herb,” she called past Yates without trying to see her questioner, “you got a problem with the roster, you take it up with Ingraham. I don’t even talk to her about my own shift anymore, okay?”

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