Fusion Fire 2 by Kathy Tyers

Author:Kathy Tyers [Tyers, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Ellet Kinsman sat eating a late dinner at her servo table when a message alarm whistled across her modest apartment’s main room. From the tone of the database’s call, the message was Priority 1, from College.

Such messages always had the utmost importance to Ellet Kinsman. She dropped her fork, bite and all, and stepped across the room.

GENERAL SENTINEL ALERT, read the bluescreen above her small reading desk. PRESS ID

PANEL AND STAND BY.

Ellet complied, curiosity piqued, but disappointed. She’d thought it a specific message for herself.

And then the screen lit.

ALL FORCES: SHUHR ALERT. AN ATTACK HAS TAKEN PLACE ON THE CALDWELL

RESIDENCE. OTHER RESIDENCES MAY BE TARGETED AS WELL. OBSERVE ALL

PRECAUTIONS.

Ellet’s pulse quickened, and she glanced back over her shoulder at her windows. When she looked again at the screen, there was more.

MISTRESS FIREBIRD MARI CALDWELL HAS BEEN PLACED ON AVOIDANCE STATUS.

DO NOT APPROACH; MAINTAIN EPSILON SHIELDING IN HER VICINITY.

A-status? What in Six-Alpha—?

Ellet stared at the message for a full minute, trying to somehow fit those two paragraphs together. They made no sense. Who had attacked whom? Had Firebird herself proved to be Shuhr? Had They done something to her? What could make her such a deadly threat to all Sentinels as to be put on A-status?

And what about Brennen’s children?

Dardy. She snapped her fingers. Damalcon Dardy would know. Leaning over the touchboard, she hastily punched up his access code. Not only would he know, she told herself while waiting for relay to his database, but he’d want me to know as quickly as possible.

Two minutes crept by. He’s not home. Peeved, Ellet slipped off the stool. Aimlessly she wandered away from the desk. He’s involved, then.

Sudden memory swept her back in time…

… She sat in his office. Tellai had just arrived. She asked if the Caldwells might have to leave Thyrica, and Dardy touched his stylus to his forehead. “If I know anything, it’s confidential, Ellet.” She felt again the tingle of his epsilon static, something he normally did not use in her presence.

Dardy. He was involved. He was gone.

He was closer to Brennen than she’d imagined.

Hesed. They were on their way to Hesed House, in the secure, Sentinel-guarded Procyel system.

How can 1 get to Hesed?

Her glance fell on her uneaten dinner, still lying on the servo table. Quickly and efficiently, she dumped the cold leavings into the recycler and her dishes into the ‘washer, then returned to the reading desk’s stool. The message still glowed on her bluescreen. She stared.

If Firebird had been placed on avoidance-status…

What was Brennen going through?

Was there a chance of… freeing him… now?

The alarm pulse rang again, directly in front of where she sat. Unruffled, she touched a key.

REPORT MAXSEC, ALTA.

That was the entire message. No explanation followed, no further order: it must be confidential, then, and important. She was needed at Regional Command.

Ellet grimaced. She wanted to go to Procyel, not Alta!

Instantly she disrupted her protest and clamped down her affective control. It would do her no good to form careless aggressive habits. She had control.

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