Oracle's Diplomacy by A. Claire Everward

Author:A. Claire Everward [Everward, A. Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789659258437
Publisher: Author&Sister
Published: 2018-07-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Lara was leaning back on the side wall of Mission Command, watching. The Brunei mission was well on its way, and so far, it was going as planned.

This was the only scheduled mission for which Mission Command would put aside its assigned task of watching the Srpska-Bosnia region via designated satellites, temporarily transferring this function to the war room outside. No other mission was scheduled for now, they had all been postponed in light of the tensions at the Srpska-Bosnia border.

When Lara came in that morning, she was told that the night before, just hours after the news broadcast claiming that Ambassador Sendor was dead, the Russian forces had begun moving. It looked like they intended to deploy along the Russian Federation’s border with Srpska—and with Brčko District, where IDSD’s peacekeeping force still was together with the peace negotiation team Sendor had been working with at IDSD HQ and that had now gone to the disputed region itself, desperate to keep some sort of a grasp on what he had achieved. In light of the situation, the alliance’s military redeployment in the region was being accelerated.

Her briefing had barely ended when the go was given for Brunei, and she had switched gears for that, so she hadn’t received any further updates other than to be told by Scholes that IDSD was putting Oracle on priority standby for Europe. But she wasn’t thinking about that now, nor about the ambassador or the too likely implications of his disappearance. She would let nothing but what was happening on Mission Command’s wall-wide screen into her mind until it was over. That was how it had to be. Whatever else was going on, this mission was the most important thing right now. It had priority, and anything else would have to wait.

She wasn’t the mission coordinator. She was on the outside, looking on, her role very specific in this one, a mission with known certainty gaps that could not be closed and that would potentially need to be dealt with. Which was why she was needed, and why this mission required her undivided attention. She was the one who dealt with the unexpected, and it was, after all, the unexpected that tended to be that which threatened lives.

This mission was given a go despite the ambassador incident because there was no other choice, postponing it would mean loss of lives. It was a rather unusual situation. A group of locals believed to be a terrorist sleeper cell disappeared from Indonesia five months before. They had been on the Southern Territories’ watchlist but had still managed to hide any communiques that must have passed between them before their disappearance. And then, three and a half weeks before, an undercover counter-terrorism agent in Indonesia, working there as part of an operation under IDSD Southern Territories Intelligence and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and posing as a black-market racketeer, was approached by one of them. The guy was fishing for radioactive materials the procurement of which could be made without the risk of alerting authorities.

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