Industry & Intrigue by Ryan McCall

Author:Ryan McCall
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 36

Atira waited in the side room of the luxury suite her father had rented in Alkos City. The room contained closets and desks for storage, but was otherwise nondescript. She could hear everything being said on the other side of the door, her agorid hearing picking up sound far better than most bipeds.

She was a tiger agorid, the most agile and cunning of the agorid races. She had never seen the steppes her people inhabited though. Her father had raised her in Wurnburg. He had hired the best tutors for her schooling and the best warriors Enz had to offer, to train her into a deadly fighter. He had raised her in the same beliefs he shared, he was the leader of a secret religious order, known as the Endless.

When she turned twenty, he revealed everything to her, about his order, his plans and his final goal. She had embraced them wholeheartedly and he put her to work in aiding him. He observed how skilled she had become and whenever he needed something done that required absolute trust, he gave it to her. Her feline head was trimmed slightly, she didn’t like her fur to grow too long. Orange and black striped fur covered hard, lean muscles and she wore a simple blue, two-piece outfit that gave her free flow movement for combat.

The talking stopped and the female voice said farewell. Atira heard the woman exit the room. She opened the door to the main room of the suite and walked in.

“So you struck a deal with her then?” she asked.

“Oh, yes,” replied Varko Kulthon, the leader of the Order of the Endless and the man she considered as her father. “She was more than eager to have access to raw materials from Streighas. She fully expects a war to arrive and if there is one thing Tegan Mordain knows, it is business. No doubt Typhon’s accounts will soon be filling up with government arms contracts.”

Atira smiled. Her father was a brilliant man. He had helped to engineer this war and now he was profiting from it. “No doubt she was impressed when her socialist problem evaporated.”

“For now,” replied Varko. “There’ll always be more cockroaches to crawl out from under the wood, ready to rebel.”

Her father moved from behind his desk and walked over to her. He brushed his hand along her face, his usual sign of affection. She closed her eyes. Her father had been so busy of late, she had not been able to see him much. Such was the price of greatness and she did not begrudge him it.

“What word is there from Kamura?” he asked. She handed him the telegram that had arrived in the morning. It was encoded of course, only members of Varko’s inner circle would be able to know what it said. Kamura was a young kitsune from Minakaya who had been recruited in his teen years. His skill at thievery and aptitude with mechanical devices had advanced him to a position as her father’s chief spy.

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