Deep Core by FX Holden

Author:FX Holden [Holden, FX]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-07-30T22:00:00+00:00

After knocking off for the day he jumped in a car headed toward Cassie’s place and called her while he was on the way.

“Hey. You need me to pick up anything?”

“Oh hey AJ. Nah, I’m just making noodles. You got the wine?”

“Sure do.”

“Then we’re good.”

AJ had no idea what to expect from her place, having only dropped her off outside before. On the way over he was thinking ok, her dress sense alternates between Inland Survivalist and Capitol Glamour, so her apartment could be either of those extremes. Her address was in an inner urban burb called Hillside, and as he drove past all the used furniture and clothes shops, garage door restaurants and novelty shops he thought yeah, the address fits. Too far from the Sea Gate for AJ though, and way too close to the zoo. There was a native animal in the South Coast City zoo called a Tatsensui Baboon which lived around thermal pools and had a loud call it used to find other baboons through the steam of the thermal swamps. It sounded to AJ like a baby crying, and creeped him out completely. He’d never got the attraction of zoos. Or baboons. Small howling pack animals with six-pointed legs for scuttling through the mud, and bright red backsides. Baboons were gross.

Cassie opened the door, hair wet like she’d just done her decon. Wearing black trousers and a black t-shirt which, with her brown skin, just made her hair look even whiter.

“I burned the sauce,” she said, letting AJ into what turned out to be a pretty spacious studio over the garage she kept her planer in. “It was going to be roasted red pepper. Instead it’s burned red pepper.”

“That’ll go well with the wine,” he said, lifting a bag. “I was going to get something fancy, but I realized I still had a half bag of this stuff.”

“Food pairing made in heaven,” Cassie said taking the wine and giving AJ a peck on the cheek which was part way between a kiss and a bite. “What’s with the box?” Cassie asked as she ladled out a huge portion of noodles and poured some sauce from a pot over it and handed it to AJ.

AJ had brought Warnecke’s box with him and dropped it on a kitchen counter. “Tell you later.”

“Ooh, Mystery Man. I’ve got some sort of seasoning in a packet in a cupboard somewhere if you want. No? So what did you want to talk about?”

“Let me pour you some wine first,” AJ said. Once he’d poured a glass for Cassie, who had a very impatient look on her face, he eased into to it. “OK, so, the Warnecke thing, I’m dealing with it alright, and I thought I had it under control, but now it has morphed completely out of shape,” AJ said. He dialed his bandwidth right back to conversation velocity.

“I thought it might,” Cassie said, going back to her noodles, but not with enthusiasm. “No offense but when you filled

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