Jupiter's Glory Book 4: Just Passing Through by Adam Carter

Author:Adam Carter [Carter, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Stowing away on a police cruiser was so beyond stupid that I could not believe Arowana and Hawthorn would even consider it. As we arrived at the spaceport, however, we asked around and discovered that there was indeed such a cruiser headed up to one of the orbital space stations. Cassiel had a little trouble getting through airport security with her sword, but since we were not booked on any flights they decided it would be all right. It was the worst show of logic I’d ever seen and I for one was quite glad we were not booked on any flights if that was their attitude.

“If we try to sneak aboard,” Cassiel said, “we’ll just blow their cover. I’m assuming they’re already inside, anyway.”

I watched the cruiser. It was fairly large and fat, your typical troop carrier, and there were people loading goods or else moving onto the craft. It was restocking supplies for the space station as well as troops, but the crates they were loading were far too small to fit the two of us inside. However we were going to get on board, we were going to have to be very clever indeed.

“If they got inside,” I said, not taking my eyes from the cruiser as I tried and failed to figure out their work patterns, “then it means we can, too.”

“You’re far too optimistic, Roz.”

“And you’re far too young to be such a defeatist. Chin up, Cass; we’re not dead yet.”

The easiest thing to do would be to obtain uniforms and just walk on board, but since that would have involved assault on police officers it was something I discarded as soon as I thought of it. Disguising Cassiel was a must, however, and at the very least we needed to find her a coat or something. Why I had allowed her to come with me to Ganymede dressed in that stupid form-fitting black suit I’ll never know. Themistonians are not known for leaving their little moon, but there was nothing set in concrete about what they had to wear, just as long as there was a lot of it.

“We could climb into a crate,” Cassiel said excitedly. “Or maybe knock some officers over the head and …”

“You’re about two minutes behind my thoughts, Cass. Nope, what we need is a distraction.”

“A distraction?”

“It’s just occurred to me that we don’t need to hide ourselves on that cruiser.”

“We don’t?”

“No. If we go on there we’ll end up in orbit, trapped in a tin can police station and running around endless corridors until they arrest us. Iris and Gordon are on that cruiser, but they don’t know we’re here. All we have to do is make them see that we are and then get them off.”

“What good will that do?”

“The four of us will be together and we can figure another way off this world.”

“I wonder what happened to the Bunnyhop.”

“Bunnyhop?”

“The Bunnyhop Express. It’s the shuttle the two of them came to Ganymede in.”

It was not

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