Lineage by P. S. Power

Author:P. S. Power [Power, P. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2015-08-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter ten

Given how crowded everything was, not just at the port, but in the entire city, things were kind of happy. People smiled and cheered at the drop of a hat, for instance. Once that happened literally when a city guard lost his little funny covering. The man and the three with him were patrolling the port for them, and a group of kids were tossing a ball around for fun.

It hit the large and sturdy fellow in the head, knocking his topper right off, into the dirt. Then he stood up, glared a bit, brushed his hat off and tossed the ball back.

"Watch that kids! We don't want anyone getting hurt." Then he and his fellows walked on, like nothing had happened, even if there was a bit of happy clapping. Mainly because the little ones hadn't been scolded too harshly or beaten. The common people tended to think that would happen any time a guard showed up.

A lot of the time it did, or close enough, so they had a real reason for it.

There were two interesting things that took place that day. The first was that Space Fleet was letting people have shore leave. That meant they got to come to the base for the day, to walk around and see the sights. Dareg learned of it when Alice Orange, their leader, got on the handheld for him. He'd just answered, showing his own face, but managed to slap his disguise on first thing when he realized who was on the device.

At the start the attractive woman made a face at him, but as soon as his uglier disguise was in place, that smoothed into a smile.

"Is that what you really look like? It is a bit much. This is a lot better." It was a strange way to say hello, but it meant that even knowing what he really was she was willing to let go of her dislike of that kind of person, if the outer trappings changed.

"I know, but we get the cards we're dealt, don't you think? Now, how may I help you today?"

"Just a heads up. I told my Captains to call you directly for landing instructions. I have ten thousand bodies coming through over the next week. We need to get on the same page that way, but they kept calling to ask me about it, now that there's something down there worth seeing." She smiled at him, her face pleased enough to be dumping it all on him.

"Thanks. I'll... Mark the landing areas somehow. Numbers? I should go get to that." Then he smiled in return, trying not to sound whiny. "Next time I do this, I'm not going to start during a major festival. Not that I really know which port should be next. Any ideas for that?" She was the head of Space Fleet. If anyone knew what to do, it should be her.

That clearly wasn't wrong.

"Austra next, since they have a good tech base, and a lot of the fleet is made up of people from there.

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