Doctor Who Bernice Summerfield Adventures 74 (BS13) by Dry Pilgrimage (Paul Leonard & Nick Walters)

Author:Dry Pilgrimage (Paul Leonard & Nick Walters)
Format: epub

Bernice gasped. Tall, humanoid figures, all with chiselled, androgynous faces and black hair. Exactly the same as the thing which had attacked her on the beach. There must be a couple of hundred of them. Bernice turned to the captain. ‘You said you had searched the ship. How come you didn’t come across this little lot?’ ‘The Khulayn told me that this hold was full of Saraani artefacts. He swore me to secrecy. I had no reason to search this part of the ship.’ ‘Didn’t you notice them being loaded aboard?’ ‘There were quite a few sealed crates,’ said the captain. They arrived in a shuttle a few days before we set off. They were marked as Saraani artefacts and I had no business looking into them. ‘ Oh, bloody hell. ‘You’re the captain! You should have insisted!’ The captain turned to her. ‘And risked losing the Lady of Lorelei? The Khulayn would have cancelled the pilgrimage if I had raised even the slightest objection!’ he shouted. Bernice instantly felt sorry for him again. Poor old sod. It’s so easy to deceive the dreamers. He turned away, his jaw working. Donimo went to console him. It was beginning to look as if any number of the Saraani, up to and including the Khulayn, could be involved in this. There was no lime for speculation, though - her first priority was to find out exactly what was happening. The accusations could come later. ‘Right,’ said Bernice. What we seem to have is a hold full of what look like military bioconstructs, quite capable of offing half the population of Dellah.’ She gestured to the rows of bioconstructs. ‘What I want to know is. what the frolicking foxes are they doing on board a ship in the middle of a religious pilgrimage?’ ‘Unless it isn’t a religious pilgrimage,’ said Donimo. He walked over to the horseshoe-shaped console in the middle of the hold. Bernice felt slightly queasy. She had no problems with androids and artificial intelligences, but military biocon

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