Dominion-427 by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781644700891
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

17

Glaxu

Glaxu wished that his face was capable of the kind of broad grin that humans adopted when things went well. Fools had assumed him to be a dumb wing-gun, rather than a flank hunter, and not once guessed that he had used the opportunity of stepping up onto the chair at their table to stick a small listening device onto it.

Everything they said was being recorded right now, by a tiny device just waiting for him to send a signal so it could dump its brains in a complex burst.

He jogged hard, once he was out of immediate sight of the dock where the Dominion vessel and a few guards were stationed. Humans would probably drop their lower beaks in shock, watching him move, but he wasn’t even running that fast. Only about half again quicker than the best human could do on his best day.

It got him to his ship while the group was still seated and eating dinner, so he skipped the recorded bits and listened in real time to their conversation.

Flank hunter, blond lady. The one that sweeps long and herds fools into the nest’s guns, or suckers them into chasing.

Outermost.

Farther.

Dave had warned him that Dominion folks tended to be specist shits that assumed intelligence declined as one moved away from the upright, hairless tree shrew morphology. Glaxu hadn’t seen it with Longshot’s crew, but the last couple of days on the station had shown him just how different Leader and the others were from the rest of their kind.

Wildspace didn’t allow that sort of intellectual superiority complex to remain for long. He might be unique on this station as a Mondi, but there were a number of Urlan around, as well as Sh’Vaadig, Viddhu, and Daicia, just along the stretch as he had made his way back to his ship. The Gazetteer had listed forty-plus species in residence at Chatosig-Six, splitting all the Variant Humanities into their own flavors based on ability to interbreed.

This Athanasia woman was sharp, he had to give her that. But arrogantly specist in the worst ways, assuming he was too stupid to work a seven-layer betrayal into his plans. She was expecting to triple-cross him.

Seriously, a Mondi?

Glaxu was almost insulted enough to just ambush them with guns at some point and splatter the decks with their blood. He would have to do something like that indoors, because Station Security would take an impatiently-dim view of him flying up to their Dominion ship and hammering it with cannon fire from Outermost.

Chatosig-Six might be a civilian station, but that didn’t mean that they didn’t command a broad swathe of orbit with their heavy cannons. As much fun as it might be to try, Glaxu doubted that even he could successfully evade ground fire long enough to make it to the buoys and escape. Plus, Valentinian wanted to return to this system and this station at a later date, and wouldn’t appreciate having to make allowances for a stubborn Mondi who had to park his ride elsewhere and catch a boost.

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