Mage Marine Misfits by Derek Wallace

Author:Derek Wallace [Wallace, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-21T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen: Moon Landing

They landed a few hours later. Most of the crew was still asleep. Jaime was reluctant to wake them. There was no real need and they needed the rest. Ash was awake and so was Zorica. The latter girl was hardly lucid but she was conscious which was a plus in Jaime’s book. He and Ash decided to move her to Five so that Ash could start with tests while Jaime transferred what supplies they would need and not find in the sub sector.

He was in the middle of his second load when Jordan joined him, picking supplies silently and following Jaime. It occurred to Jaime that Jordan didn’t know about Five. None of the other team members did. Yet he followed Jaime without question.

Had he earned it? Had he earned this trust?

He didn’t know. But he was grateful for it.

If indeed it was trust and not just extreme tiredness. Jaime snorted, putting down the packages he was holding and turning back to swerve around Jordan and go back to the ship, taking care not to touch him or breathe on him. He didn’t know how this contagion worked. Nobody did; that was the problem.

He wondered if he should wear a hazmat suit or if his containment gel was enough of a barrier to prevent his team from getting sick. He remembered that Zorica had been directly injected with the blood. If the disease was airborne, then surely all the Stits would have had it since they were in the presence of an infected for quite a while. They must have known that it was a blood borne pathogen.

Did that mean he was safe?

He decided to keep the gel on, a barrier between his skin and anyone or anything, until Ash could get some answers.

He found that Epone and Uzochi were standing near the ship entrance, opposite the pile of luggage to be transferred.

“What’s happening?” Epone asked.

Jaime spared a glance before kneeling down to pick up another bag. “Follow me,” he said.

Epone reached out, causing the rest of the luggage to hover at waist height and then follow obediently as they walked along beside Jaime.

“Hmm, yeah that works,” Jaime said.

“So why are we at the ruins of our training camp?” Uzochi asked.

Jaime cleared his throat. “Well, apparently there’s a medical lab under our subsector. Ash is going to do some tests on Zorica, see what’s up.”

Epone nodded approvingly. “Yes that is a good plan.”

∞

Jaime walked into the medlab, eyebrows already raised in inquiry as he looked for and found Ash. She was busily uploading notes into a databank, words flashing across the screen above her faster than the human eye could read.

“Anything?” he asked.

“She is definitely infected,” Ash declared, and Jaime’s heart sank.

“But, her body is fighting it. Right now, she is infected but not diseased.”

Jaime’s eyes went to Zorica’s prone figure, her lips slightly blue as if she had been deprived of oxygen at some point. Her fingernails too were blue and there were dark shadows under her eyes.

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