Hunting the Corrigan's Blood (Cadence Drake) by Holly Lisle

Author:Holly Lisle [Lisle, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781480095021
Google: 0VDaMwEACAAJ
Amazon: 1480095028
Barnesnoble: 1480095028
Goodreads: 16107483
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Deep IDs belonged to someone once. All the numbers are real, all the facts are checkable, and only DNA stands between the purchaser and the reality of being the person who first wore the name.

While Badger oversaw work on the ship's ID switcher, Storm Rat tucked himself into his seat and squinted at me. "I chose two people for you who were traveling companions who owned their own ship."

"Good."

"Maybe." He shrugged and pulled his knees closer to his chest. "You're going to be Adana Gantrey. Pirates killed her and her lover and destroyed her ship out by the Terbian Nexus. The planet that noted her death doesn't maintain links with any of the nets, so the only place where she is officially dead is that world."

"Where's her home planet?"

"Dresden, but she doesn't have any family to speak of. When she was quite young, she married old money attached to an old man." Storm Rat grinned. "Her husband died in an unfortunate accident. Since marrying old men is a lousy way to make money ever since nanomedicine, I suspect she helped the accident along."

"She killed him?"

"Had him killed, I imagine. But she was smart; she was never charged, and when she finally got her hands on his money, she parlayed his million-rucet fortune into multimillions by diversifying into some fields he wouldn't have touched." He sighed. "Officially, all she ever did was collect her husbands money and make science Sensos."

"Unofficially?"

"You aren't going to like this part. She produced shock-porn Sensos; bankrolled an underground nanotech lab that created some weird, weird drugs; involved herself in gambling and money laundering and bought herself a few politicians. She wasn't big, but she was bad."

"Lovely. Where am I most likely to run into the people who want to kill her? Me, I mean."

"Stay away from Dresden. For that matter, if I were you I'd avoid the entire Borland Quad. She doesn't seem to have developed any sort of a reputation beyond that—and she doesn't have any record universally, of course, or I wouldn't have bought the ID in the first place."

"That works. I won't be going anywhere near the Borland Quad. So who is Badger going to be?"

"Brian Darkman, her professionally unemployed traveling companion, who met her when he was starring in one of her productions—one from the second line, not the first."

"He's going to be a Senso star?" I rubbed my temples briefly. "Oh, he'll just love that."

"Really?"

"No."

"Oh. I hadn't thought he would."

But Storm Rat, knowing we wouldn't like the people we were to become, had made us those people anyway. Good IDs were hard to find, and these were people who could go where we needed to go and do what we needed to do.

"Thanks, Storm Rat. What kind of physical modifications are we going to have to do to be Adana and Brian?"

He tapped a key on his desk and a life-sized holo appeared in front of me. "This was her current holo at the time of her death."

I groaned. She was a fair-skinned, short redhead with big tits and freckles.

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