Mirrors by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward [Ward, Blaze]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-64470-174-4
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

11

Rachel

Greyson had spotted the car when he was walking back to his apartment. Late model Chandler Jouster, parked half a block past the doorway to his part of the tower. Rachel Asher would be behind the wheel with the doors locked, reading her homework or something.

HE looked around to see if there were any other suspicious-looking vehicles on the curb somewhere. Sun was far enough up that joggers had been a nuisance on the sidewalks coming back and people were starting to go to work.

Still, a Jouster stood out, mostly because most cars these days were smaller, built for two. Moms and Dads still drove big boxes that could haul kids around if they had that many, or small four-doors if they didn’t. Jousters were meant for four adults, and could haul six in a pinch. Usually, it was only three, with two cops up front and a handcuffed perp in back, silently glowering in a way that wouldn’t compromise the rights Greyson had previously explained to them if they had the sense God gave a goose.

There. Almost as good as clockwork. Smaller Chandler, maybe a Scout, but it was hard to tell them apart from this distance. Greyson had never been that much of a gearhead. It stuck out for being too clean in this neighborhood.

Greyson had occasionally checked a sneaker car out of the motor pool when he needed it for surveillance, but the first thing he always did with them was find an empty gravel lot somewhere and do donuts to kick up dust and throw muck and crap on the sides. Mechanics back at the office always bitched, but nobody ever looked twice at him on stakeout.

Greyson wondered who had followed Rachel this morning, and if she even knew they were there. Cop 101, but those folks had learned it as well as she had. Still, he checked his watch. Old-fashioned beast with gears driving each other from a battery that would probably outlive him, rather than the solid-state electronics most people preferred, if they even bothered.

Handheld told time just as accurately.

Ten minutes to seven. He could chirp her, or just start walking that way now and see how good her personal sensors were. Window rolled down as he took his first step and she waved once, closing up immediately.

Greyson nodded and trooped over. The passenger door unlocked as he got close, so he climbed in and slammed it shut. She was dressed almost identical to how he was, except she had a sedate gray tie on over her blue shirt and under her collar. Like him, longcoat in brown rather than a blazer, but hers looked nicer. Less miles and firefights on it, one presumed.

“Watchers behind us,” Rachel said before he even started fastening the seat belts into place. “Picked them up not far from the station. Figured they were why you had me walk this particular path this morning, so I didn’t bother losing them on the way over.”

She looked over expectantly, with a matronly smile that was just a little frosty.

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