Halcyon's Hero (Atramento Book 1) by Nix Whittaker

Author:Nix Whittaker [Whittaker, Nix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Whatinga: May 2086

Hal placed the box on the counter and smiled at the man behind it. He glared at her. He wore a black suit like it was a uniform. She wondered if every Enforcer had a closet full of black suits.

“Can I talk to Harold?”

The Enforcer glowered at her, then finally picked up the phone. She took a seat on one of the chairs, she assumed was uncomfortable on purpose, and swung her feet as she waited for Harold.

It didn’t take long for the Enforcer to arrive. He glared at her and she smiled.

“I have a gift for you.”

Hopping up she offered him the box.

He waved for her to follow; except guards stopped her. The box beeped under the metal detectors. Lifting one corner of the box he peered inside, but the shadows hid what was inside. He motioned to the things in the box.

“What the heck is this?”

The Enforcer took the box from her and gestured for her to stand with her arms away from her body. She complied easily.

“Well, I kinda felt bad that one of my thingamajigs was being used by the bad guys, so I thought I’d bring you something to even the playing field.”

The guards patted her down to see if she carried a weapon.

“We have the thingamajig now Miss Smith and according to you they wouldn’t be able to replicate it.”

The guards finished and gave a nod to Harold.

“They have the recipe already so I thought this could make it better.”

She motioned to the box to indicate what she was talking about. He exhaled loudly and waved to the guards to let her through. He took her to his office, which was crowded amongst others. With glass walls, it really wasn’t very private.

She left the box on his table, which she noticed was scrupulously clean and ordered.

She flicked a hand towards the box. “I wrote some instructions in there for how to use them.”

He took one of them. It was round to fit in the palm better with an L.C.D readout. There were about a dozen in the box. They were simple to make. As she had laid awake the night before thinking about her spectrometer and how she actually could make it so much better now.

Then, she had thought of making something which could read just one thing and that had led to her making these things. She thought she might have gone too far.

“What is it?”

She quickly demonstrated how it worked.

“It’s a kind of sniffer. It can find ambrosia for you. It doesn’t have a great range, less than a hundred meters, but it should allow you guys to find Marcus’ drugs.”

He stared at it for a long time. “Does it have a name?”

She wrinkled her nose as she thought. “I’m not so good at naming things. I call it George. I knew him in school and he had this massive nose. Seriously, you can name it what you like. There isn’t anything else like it out there.”

He nodded to placate her.

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