Moon, Elizabeth - Vatta War 01 by Moon Elizabeth

Author:Moon, Elizabeth [Moon, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-15T23:26:16+00:00

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too fast, the wrong way. And she needed her helmet off to find out

more. The way she was lying, it could be a broken neck, but the

young sometimes had very flexible necks. Best not to move her. Best

to call a real medic.

'Pitt to Victor.'

'What's up, Pitt?'

'Need a medic, possible C-spine injury, not ours. Captain of this

tub.'

'Just finish her, why don't you? We're in a bind; we don't have

time to play nursemaid to civs.'

Because she was young and maybe dumb but not bad, Cally

thought. Because she'd been straight-up about the whole thing, and if

all the nineteen hells were coming down on Mackensee, a good deed

might make the difference to whatever gods watched over

mercenaries. Vatta Transport was, after all, Vatta Transport and this

had to be family.

'My call,' she said, which was true. 'Send me a medic.' And to her

team, 'The captain's injured; I've called for a medical team. I’ll talk to

the rest of the crew. We’ll want to clean up this mess.' The mess that

had been a handsome blond youngster who thought for some reason

a punk pistol, a spacer's bar special, would stand up to military-grade

armor and weaponry. He'd probably had a crush on the captain or

something; he'd wanted to show off; he'd wanted to protect her. And

because of him she was lying there with a hole in her arm and maybe

gorked as well.

Cally had her own opinion of young men, having trained a goodly

number. Young women could be just as stupid, but unless children

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