Lost Planet 02 - The Stolen Moon by Searles Rachel

Author:Searles, Rachel [Searles, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Retail, YA 09+
ISBN: 9781250066541
Google: F_0YBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00LKS1BNQ
Goodreads: 22670820
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

When Chase got back to the sitting room, everyone had left but Parker. A staffer was already setting up a computer at a mahogany coffee table. Parker looked over the man’s shoulder, hands twitching as if he wanted to do it all himself.

“Alright, that’s good, I can take it from here.” He prodded the disgruntled staffer from the seat and sank before the console. His expression immediately settled into what Chase recognized as fully immersed mode, eyes bright and alert on the screen while the rest of his face went slack and his hands flew over the keyboard.

“Parker, we need to talk.” Chase waited to continue until the staffer had left them alone. “I went to the control deck and heard some weird stuff.”

Parker didn’t turn his head away from the screen. “Yeah, that’s cool,” he muttered.

“Ksenia had her crew disable our transport,” Chase said as loudly as he dared. Parker nodded, still typing. Chase waved his hand between Parker and the screen. “Hello, will you listen to me? We’re trapped here.”

With visible effort, Parker pulled his eyes away from the computer. “I heard you,” he said dryly. “And wow, that’s weird. But I’m trying to hack through the multiple firewalls of a Titan-class starship, which is kind of impossible, so that our friends don’t all die. Please don’t be mad if I place more priority on what I’m doing than what you’re talking about. Tell this to someone who can actually do something about it, like Maurus.”

Chase gaped, speechless. Half of him wanted to punch Parker in his know-it-all face, but the other half of him knew he was right. Parker gave him a long, sober look without a speck of his usual flippancy and turned back to what he was doing. Feeling weirdly chastised, Chase left the room and went to look for Maurus.

He found all three Fleet officers and Lilli in the dining room a level below, sitting at an elegant table with china plates of creamy pasta in front of them. Vidal was the only one eating, while Lilli stared stonily at her untouched plate and Maurus and Derrick engaged in a heated discussion.

“What you’re saying is patently untrue. The velocity forces alone would crush you in a millisecond,” said Maurus, smashing his pasta with a fork in demonstration.

Derrick made a scornful face. “It is possible, if you do it with the right degree of torque.”

Vidal smiled at Chase and waved him over to the seat beside her. “We were all starving. It’s going to be a long day—you should have something to eat, too. Keep your energy up.” She flagged an attendant who waited in the corner of the room, and leaned toward Chase to gesture at the two arguing. “This is so old. They’ve been fighting about the same thing, in one form or another, since the first day Maurus came aboard the ship.”

“Lieutenant Derrick doesn’t like Lyolians?”

She sighed. “Karsten … has a tradition to uphold. He comes from a long line of jerks.

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