Death Weaver by K. A. Excell

Author:K. A. Excell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic
ISBN: 9781952856105
Publisher: Rune and Gear Productions
Published: 2023-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The ship was silent, with Eric and Kieko in the closest thing the egg had to a back corner, John and Verdell sitting in the piloting chairs, and Kriska in an uncomfortable middle spot. John fished out a headset—a mic dot that went on his throat, and put another com bug in his other ear, which was a dozen times better than the bulky mic packs Kriska had used in the past—and got to work trying to sort out orbital traffic. From what she could overhear, Io had been notified and the array was being put in quarantine until a Warbane team could get there—courtesy of Eric messing with the environmental systems on board. Anyone from Death’s Companion who went on board would suffocate and freeze, which meant that any further attempts at destroying the array would have to be done from space.

To that end, all orbiting traffic was to be re-routed. If someone with a passel of missiles strapped on their ship got even close, the tower would know well in advance and, according to Verdell, Warbane had given Titan Space Control a wonderful small, though heavily armed, spacecraft. Problem solved.

Perhaps it was because John and Verdell felt the need to sort out traffic on Warbane’s behalf as well as fly the ship, but the journey back to Titan took almost an hour and Kriska spent most of it thinking about her new quarry, Asa. What kind of person could do that much damage to the Fabric of Life? It was like the entire situation had been engineered to destroy not just the Warbane base, but to tear the Fabric of Life into tatters. What could he possibly gain by destroying life itself? It would kill him just as surely as it would kill everyone else.

When the egg ship landed, Kriska was no closer to finding an answer.

Verdell and John stumbled out of the ship like the rush to the base, scrambling of traffic, and subsequent repair had taken years off their life. They stopped on the tarmac.

“I’ve got to open the Council Archive to figure out where everyone went,” Verdell said, rubbing her temples. “But I’m not doing that in an unsecured location.

“When will the message that we were the ones on the station be released to Io?” John asked. He’d lost the usual energy in his voice, and he just looked exhausted.

“Tomorrow morning.”

“That’s not a lot of time.”

Verdell shook her head. “It’s too much time, frankly. I don’t know what Carol put in her report but, knowing her, it was just that all of us had left base. If that message got to Io this afternoon, then that means Mom’s going to be freaking out about her children being kidnapped or something for almost a whole day.”

John looked down at the landing pad. “Right.”

Kieko and Eric were still clinging to each other. Kriska wasn’t sure they heard a word Verdell or John said.

“Where are we going to find this ‘secured location’?” Kriska finally asked. She needed

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