Murder in the Skies by Kate MacLeod

Author:Kate MacLeod [Macleod, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951439040
Publisher: Ratatoskr Press

12

This time when Fitz got to the cafeteria door, again before they were even open for breakfast service, he only had to wait a moment before Moreau and Ritchie joined him. Ritchie looked wrecked, her eyes red-rimmed and her complexion wan.

It was just the three of them. It hadn't been just the three of them since they arrived at school and stood on the train platform together, waiting for, as it turned out, Jeger and Bale.

Everything he had wanted to tell her was bursting to come out, but it wasn't the right time. Not even to get Ritchie's take on Jeger's war fears.

He desperately wanted Ritchie's take on Jeger's war fears.

But it wasn't the time. First, they had to clear Ritchie's name. Then Ritchie needed to get a decent night's sleep. Then, maybe, they'd find another perfect moment like this one again.

Moreau pointed to the back of the cafeteria, and Fitz nodded. The three of them crossed the darkened room.

"Everything okay?" Fitz asked her when they finally sat down around a table in the back corner of the room.

"Yeah," Ritchie said absentmindedly. But he didn't believe she had even really heard his question.

"Did they interrogate you yesterday?" he asked.

That seemed to snap her awake. "No. I mean, they asked questions, but I wasn't tortured or anything." She shot Moreau a questioning look.

"You do look a little pale," Moreau said.

"Oh," Ritchie said, touching her fingertips to her face as if she could feel the lack of color. "I didn't sleep well."

"We'll figure this out," Fitz promised her. "Now that we can work together, no problem, right?"

"I mean, command is investigating," Ritchie said.

"Yeah, but we don't want to wait for them, do we?" he asked. Ritchie just shrugged. Then the foodservice windows opened with loud clangs all at once.

"No, she doesn't," Moreau said for her. Then she got up from her chair. "I'll grab something for all of us. Ritchie, fill Fitz in about Egli."

"Who's Egli?" Fitz asked.

"Jeger's buddy," Ritchie said. "I overheard the two of them arguing about something yesterday morning in the showers. I don't know what exactly, but it involved a 'him.' I asked Egli about it last night, but she says it was nothing. Not relevant." She said the last two words distinctly, and he guessed they were a direct quote.

"Then that's two arguments Jeger had yesterday before class," Fitz said. "When everyone else was still at breakfast, I was on the hangar deck looking over my glider. Bale and Jeger came out of the command center arguing about her... motivational techniques."

"Bale would never do this," Ritchie said.

"Barring some huge - and hugely unexpected - personal revelation about him, I'd have to agree," Fitz said.

"You think he's the 'him?'"

"I guess it depends on what they meant by 'him.'"

"'You tell him or I will,'" Ritchie quoted.

"Tell him what?" Fitz asked.

"No clue," Ritchie sighed, propping her chin on one of her hands and letting her eyes slide half-closed. She looked exhausted.

Moreau came back to the table with an icy stare

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