Double Sharpe by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

17

“Oh, what did they do to you, girl?” Raven heard Blake wail from below deck where he was checking over the AI core. What followed after that, while Raven and Kyra either stood tensely or paced the small upper cabin, was a long string of colorful language that Raven was frankly shocked Blake even knew.

“You better hope I don’t tell your mother,” she called down.

She knew how upset he was, but she wanted to somehow break the tension and maybe make him laugh a little. The man couldn’t focus that well when he was so upset, and she knew that.

“You better not tell my mother!” he shouted back. “I think I’ve upset her enough lately. She’s threatened to rip my ear right off my head.”

Raven smirked at the image as she moved back to the open door, peering out over the low valley to the trees and hills beyond. There was only one road, which was little more than a wide dirt path, so if they were coming by land vehicle, that was their only way in. Of course, it did not escape her thoughts that there was another ship that had towed Nyx here so that might somehow appear…but one problem at a time.

So far, the coast was still clear.

“They were effective but unskilled,” Blake shouted through the ship’s floor and the narrow open corridor that led down to the core maintenance area. “Basically, they reached in and yanked out wires, or what passes for wires. That Stillwell bastard had a code to let them into it.”

That sounded...really bad. “Can you fix it?”

There was a pause long enough to make her sick with nerves. “Yeah,” he finally said. “But I don’t know if I can do it fast. This is a big mess.”

She gripped her hair and tugged with frustration. “We can’t stay here forever,” she said more hotly than she meant to. She glanced back out the door, which was when she saw two land vehicles coming down the road and into the valley.

They didn’t have long at all.

“Even less now!” she shouted, watching the vehicles roll slowly toward her. “What CAN you do? We’re about to have company!”

Again, an uncomfortably long pause. She was calculating when the cars would be in range and how effective her gun would be on vehicles like that.

“Call Silvanus!” Blake finally said.

“What?!”

“Call Silvanus! Get her shiny silver butt over here,” he shouted, speaking so fast that she almost had trouble understanding him. “The only thing I can do is put her back into the state she was in when she was flown here. Silvanus needs to hack into that tap and slave Nyx to her own systems, and fly her by remote out of here!”

‘Silvanus, did you hear that?’

‘I’m already on my way.’

“She’s on her way!”

There was the sound of clanking and then a small crash before Blake came bolting up the stairs. “We’re going to have to get onto Silvanus before we fly out of here. I can’t guarantee that Nyx will have life support while flying remote.

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