Life Within Parole by RoAnna Sylver

Author:RoAnna Sylver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RoAnna Sylver
Published: 2016-11-08T10:33:22+00:00

The night CHAMELEON MOON begins…

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Smoke filled the shattered streets of Parole. Most of the light came from below, red-orange and flickering, where thin cracks and gaping holes revealed the long drop and the open flame. You couldn’t trust the brittle pavement, so people found other ways to get by. When it wasn’t safe to walk on a sidewalk, it was time to fly - or at least run so fast and leap so far it seemed that way if you closed your eyes. On a night like this, Regan could pretend a lot of things if he closed his eyes.

He took a breath and held it. As his feet left the rooftop edge, he exhaled.

“All right, the lizard has landed.” A man’s dry voice crackled into his ear, and he could hear the crooked smile through the mild static buildup. “Got you on visual again. Next time you look up and see an Eye in the Sky blinking back, it might just be me. Uh, or it might not. We’re not out of range yet, and they are out tonight, they are out in droves, so keep it moving.”

Regan didn’t reply as he rose out of his loose-kneed crouch. Instead of running, he took a slow step forward, then another, letting his thin chest expand along with the loose frill of skin hanging at his neck. He turned in a slow circle and tilted his head back to stare up at the dim sky and curving barrier overhead.

“Getting your bearings?” The voice in his earpiece continued, clearer now.

“Yeah,” Regan slowly let his arms slowly drop. “I know where I am.”

“You and the rest of Parole, in a couple minutes.” He could hear a soft, brisk, continuous clacking—typing, ancient keys on a keyboard rattling a little loose. “Half the payload came through about a minute ago, it’s uploading now. The fun half. Still got the business half?”

“Sensitive material is safe and sound.” Regan slapped his pocket, satisfied at the small rectangular drive secure inside. “Garrett Cole’s eyes only. Making my way to the drop point now.”

“Cool-cool. Boss-man’s gonna be happy.” He could almost see the satisfied smirk on the other line. He could definitely hear it in the bright, expressive voice that fired off swift syllables almost as light and quick as the typing in the background. “And so am I.”

“And Eye in the Sky is about to be very upset.”

“Which means CyborJ’s work here is... just beginning. Damn, it feels good to be me.” The alias sounded a bit different than it looked spelled out, but was strikingly literal once you grasped the logical eccentricities of the mind behind it. It was almost the word ‘cyborg,’ but sounded more like ‘cyber’ with the letter ‘Jay’ spoken on the end. A name everybody in Parole knew, for better or for worse. If they didn’t, they soon would, he liked to say. What Parole didn’t know was that where CyborJ went, Regan tended to follow—a name nobody was supposed to know. If

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