Girl Rides the Wind by Jacques Antoine

Author:Jacques Antoine
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Romance, Asian American, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Genetic Engineering, Thriller & Suspense, United States, Science Fiction, War & Military, Thriller, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Amaterasu Press
Published: 2015-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

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“IT WAS TOTAL BULLSHIT,” Perry said, once he’d returned from briefing Theo, the XO, and the Admiral. “Those guys were hostiles, but that was definitely not where the attack on the Thetis was launched from.”

“How do you know?” Emily asked.

“They didn’t have the right tech for something like that. The caves were a small-arms cache, you know, AK-47s, handguns, a few thousand rounds, and a couple dozen RPGs.”

“What about the hostiles? You couldn’t capture any of them alive?” Emily noticed a tremor in his hand as he prepared his answer.

“That’s just it. Diao’s men did capture one of them.”

“Then where is he?”

“By the time we arrived on the scene, he’d already been handled pretty roughly.”

“What do you mean ‘roughly’?”

“Nearly beaten to death. Diao claimed that one of his men lost a brother on the Thetis, and that he got carried away. But you could see they’d been cutting on him. He was missing a finger and an ear… and they’re shrieking at him, but it sure didn’t sound like Chinese to me.”

“What did it sound like?”

“Not that sing-song sound the Chinese usually have when they get agitated, more guttural, like Dutch, and maybe even a little like Spanish.”

Emily couldn’t help smiling at him and his sense of what languages he didn’t understand sound like. He wasn’t exactly wrong, and his assumption that the Chinese pitch accents were mood-markers was a natural mistake. “Who exactly was interrogating him?”

“Diao and Ongpin, with Ongpin’s man translating for them. Does that mean they were speaking Filipino?”

“There isn’t really one Filipino language.” She couldn’t resist making an irrelevant distinction, even though it meant he’d surely make fun of her for it later. “The central government has pushed to make Tagalog the national language. But in the southern islands there’s like dozens of languages.”

“Well, whatever language it was, things got way out of control. Diao’s man tried to stab him in the chest, and Durant wades into the middle and pulls him off the guy… and the Chinese almost lose it and they attack Durant. It took me and Tarot and Racket to put a stop to it. You’d have been proud of those two. They just inserted themselves into the middle of the fray, and they’re so huge, you know, that everyone is really cowed.”

“So how come we don’t have a prisoner on the BHR, then?”

“Because, once everyone had calmed down, Ongpin steps behind the prisoner and makes some sort of announcement that sounds all official, and then draws his sidearm and puts a bullet in the back of his head.”

“He did what?”

“Yeah, he executed the guy, and then he tells us that the PNP will collect the bodies later, that we have to leave ’em there.”

“That’s total crap,” Emily said. “You know what it sounds like, right?”

“Yeah. They didn’t want us to interrogate him.”

“You remember what I said? The PNP is just using us to weaken the MLF.”

“It’s starting to look like you were right about them.”

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