Ghost Star (The Shadow Space Chronicles Book 6) by Kal Spriggs

Author:Kal Spriggs [Spriggs, Kal]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Sutek Press
Published: 2017-08-30T06:00:00+00:00

After the luncheon finished, the standard eight guards escorted them back to their quarters. As they stepped inside, Lizmadie stumbled a bit and caught herself on the arm of their couch. None of the guards stepped within reach to assist her, and they kept hawk eyes on both of them as Lizmadie straightened, "Sorry, a bit too much wine for me, I suppose."

Two of them pulled out wands and began to frisk them down, while two more kept their weapons ready.

After that was complete, the guards departed and Alannis moved over to the couch and took a seat. "Well, that was educational," she said, even as her hand dropped down into the join between the couch cushion and the arm. She'd barely noticed when Lizmadie had adjusted her boot at lunch, and only because she had did she take note of her friend's action when she'd stumbled just now.

They both operated under the assumption that they were under constant surveillance. The knowledge that they were on a planet, or massive station, completely under Marius Giovanni's control only reinforced that assumption.

"Yes, wasn't it?" Lizmadie said dryly, taking a seat across from her in the chair.

Alannis's fingers brushed the back of something angular and metallic. Price's pistol. Alannis remembered how it had fallen to the floor and slid under the table. Lizmadie must have stopped it with her boot and then slipped it inside when she bent over to adjust it.

Now they had a weapon. A real weapon. They knew where they were, they knew that there was breathable atmosphere outside, which meant there should be wildlife of some kind.

"We need to plan," Alannis said, thinking both about the escape and about how to stop Reese and Marius. If they could get out, they could bring back a fleet. Her brother would send an entire fleet, if necessary.

“Do you know anything about Golgotha?" Alannis asked.

"Everything I know, I learned today," Lizmadie snorted. She went to one of the windowless walls and tapped at it. "I thought this was some kind of industrial plastic or ceramic... now I'm not sure."

"Too tough to cut through," Alannis said, "even if we had a knife." This had been the topic of so many of their conversations that Alannis didn't know why they bothered. Any escape would have to go through the door... wouldn't it?

"We know it is an alien facility," Lizmadie said. Alannis followed her friend's gaze to the bathroom. Aliens wouldn't use a human-shaped toilet... That meant it was likely retrofitted... toilet, sink, possibly the shower, too. In theory, it would be as sturdy and hard to break as the walls, but the join between the existing wall and the new fittings might not be.

Alannis smiled a bit. They had a weapon. They had a plan. They were going to get out of here.

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