Hand of Mars (Starship's Mage Book 2) by Stewart Glynn

Author:Stewart, Glynn [Stewart, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 24

Lori met Riordan and his passengers in a parking garage at the edge of town. The big military truck barely fit into the first floor of the concrete structure, but it was at least out of sight from any watching satellites or Navy warships.

“Please tell me you have some plan for getting us out of here,” Riordan told her as he dropped out of the truck. “I… didn’t fully expect Montgomery to succeed, so I didn’t plan past getting here. I have places to put them,” he continued, “but they’ll track the truck here, and we can’t afford for them to track us away from here.”

“Maintenance tunnels,” Lori told him calmly. “I used to play in them as a child, and one of our people ‘borrowed’ the access codes from their servers after we set this as the rendezvous point.”

Jacob Pierre joined the pair, taking Lori’s hands in his own and bowing over them.

“Mademoiselle Armstrong,” he greeted her softly. “It appears I have the impetuous rebellion of yours that I have long berated to thank for my life.”

“You have Envoy Montgomery to thank,” she replied uncomfortably. “We… couldn’t risk acting with our own resources – we would have put all High Ardennes at risk.”

“Of course,” Pierre agreed. “I did not expect you to save us, Lori,” he admitted. “We… spent too long castigating you for having the courage to act. You were right, and I was wrong. Vaughn is too far gone to be convinced or swayed.”

“One of us had to stay,” Lori reminded him. “Someone had to try, and you had the patience for it, not me.”

“We need to get these people moving, Lori,” Riordan told her. “After the disaster Montgomery made of the resort and Travere’s battalion, I don’t think they followed us – but Montoya will be moving new troops into place as we speak, and asking for help from Cor.”

Lori nodded and gestured for the rescues spilling out of the truck to follow her.

“It won’t smell overly nice,” she told them over her shoulder, “but the maintenance tunnels are supposed to be secure. Any record that we used them will be wiped too, so the trail will end here. You’ll be safe.”

She opened the door and gestured for the refugees to go past her. One of her Freedom Wing soldiers was waiting on the other side, and began to gently guide the Green Party politicians and staffers into the underground network.

“I thought we were safe at Sunshine,” Pierre finally murmured from behind her. “I’ve spent years keeping us completely separate from your Wing. We’ve done nothing.”

“Except oppose Vaughn,” Lori told him. “That, it seems, is now enough. No resistance will be tolerated, all dissent will be crushed. He thinks he’s blamed us for the death of a Hand, Jacob, and that’s the fire he’ll burn us all in given half a chance.”

“But the Envoy is working with you,” Pierre objected. “That means… Mars knows what happened.”

“Montgomery knows what happened,” Riordan said quietly. “I don’t know what the man’s plan is, but he wants our help.

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