Jane's Christmas (Tales from The Hunter Legacy universe. Book 1) by Ellis Timothy

Author:Ellis, Timothy [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timothy Ellis
Published: 2015-12-21T18:30:00+00:00

Six

Comfortably ensconced in a lounge chair, Angel jumped up onto my lap, curled up, and went to sleep. Jeeves filled up my ginger ale glass. Between too much food, several glasses of champagne, and brandy butter, I was quite ready for an afternoon nap as well.

When everyone was seated, Jane entered, causing quite a stir.

She was dressed up in the red costume she'd tried to get me to wear.

She had long white whiskers.

She had a red nose.

She was carrying a large sack.

Behind her trooped in a dozen little people dressed mainly in green.

"Are those elves?" asked Alana.

"Gee I hope so," said Amanda with a laugh. "If they're not, it means I'm a lot drunker than I think I am."

We all laughed.

"Small cargo droids," said Jane through my PC.

The elves went over to the larger of the packages.

"Santa left a few gifts," said Jane.

"Santa?" asked Agatha.

The only part of the walls which wasn’t draped, popped up a screen. We watched a vid of a sleigh being pulled by six reindeer, flying in from space, and landing on the Flight Deck. It was taken down one of the lifts to the Launch Deck, where it was unloaded by the elves.

"A few?" questioned BA.

It was more than a few. Jane seemed to be learning how to use an understatement.

Seeming to deny the laws of space, more packages came off the sleigh than there seemed to be room for them. When unloading was complete, the sleigh was moved into a launch tube, from where it sailed back out into space.

No-one commented on the apparent impossibility of a sleigh with a large man in red on it, being pulled around space by Earth animals.

The elves picked up the larger packages, and deposited one each in front of the Alpha team.

They all looked at me.

"Don’t look at me," I said, with my hands raised. "They're obviously for you, so open them."

Eyes turned to Annabelle instead. She started ripping paper, and quickly revealed a grav chest. She keyed open the top, and froze.

"Boss?" asked BA. "What's in there?"

Annabelle wasn’t listening. She reached in and started pulling things out. She lovingly hugged a framed still hollo, and looked towards me with tears streaming down her face.

"What is it?" I asked her, now feeling worried.

"This isn’t possible," she said softly.

"What the…" came from BA, and was repeated in one form or another by the rest of the team.

They all looked at me, with more than half of them crying.

"How?" demanded Amanda, wiping her cheeks.

"How what?" I said.

"How did you do this?"

"What?"

"Have you been holding out on us Jon?" demanded Alison.

"Huh? I've no idea what you're talking about."

Annabelle looked me straight in the eyes.

"Jon, how much did you collect from where Moose was destroyed?"

"Moose? What are you talking about?"

"How much?" demanded BA.

"Nothing. There wasn’t anything recognizable to collect. All there was, was dust."

"Don't lie to us Jon," said Aline.

"What? I'm not lying to you. Get Jane to show you the debris field record if you don’t believe me."

"Well how have you done this?" asked Annabelle.

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