Diamond On Your Radar by F. P. Adriani

Author:F. P. Adriani [Adriani, F. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-11-23T22:00:00+00:00

“Can I speak in front of them?” My head jerked hard, toward the other three Hu-people on the bridge.

“Yes. Everyone on the transport is cleared.”

“Well then, the notebooks didn’t say precisely what was at the spots, but she said they were covered, hidden. How she spotted them, I have no idea. Her notebooks have missing information—I mean I think they do. I’m not a scientist! I don’t know.”

“Well, Chuck has some science background. So if you’d let him see them….”

I didn’t respond.

And it was her turn to sigh loudly. “All right then. We’re making another stop soon.”

“Where?”

“To meet some people,” Hu said, motioning to Shayla, who revved up the transport’s engines. Hu turned, seeming about to walk away.

But my voice stopped her. “I’m not sure how much you know and Amy didn’t specify how, but she believed if the locations were disturbed…it could crack the planet.”

“Don’t say that about the cracking anymore,” Tan said fast now. Until that moment, he’d been silent the whole bridge-time. Now his mouth was shaking, and he’d turned his head away from me, his face the same mask of worry as the night before at dinner.

“It’s frightening, isn’t it?” Hu said, her cool eyes on him. “No matter where you are, there are forces bigger than you. But on Diamond—everything seems so hard and tough. It’s difficult to believe Diamond’s also fragile. The illusions here are being shattered, one by one.”

“Not fast enough,” Tan said, “at least the ones about the people.” There was a challenge in the hard tilt of his head—toward Hu.

I thought I saw a sarcastic laugh lurking behind her bland smile, but if the laugh really was there, it never left her mouth. “And you’re referring to…?”

“A friend of mine. Killed in a North Pine Mine explosion six years ago—that’s what I’m referring to,” he said, breathing in heavy angry gusts in her direction. They were standing pretty close together, but his agitated breathing bothered me more than his sudden passionate anger. I knew how Tan felt about his friend, but his response seemed more than that to me now….

And I wished he hadn’t said and done all this in front of Chuck, who once again looked like he wanted to kill Tan. He took a step forward, but Hu held up an arm in his direction before he could reach Tan.

She said to Tan now, “Well, I’m sorry about your friend. I think it’s past time I indicate that I’ve been privately negotiating with The Council lately. It hasn’t exactly been going very well, but I’ve still sent suggestions over the grapevine to ease up on the sabotage. It’s been somewhat effective.

“The thing with rebellions is: the people who join them tend to be rebellious personalities. They easily reject listening to others, including rebellion leaders.

“But, ultimately, this has been a war—we may not be shooting missiles at each other, but it’s still a war. And there’s collateral damage then. You don’t plan collateral damage—it just happens, even when you’ve been told no one would be in a place somewhere, someone winds up being there.

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