Paradisi Escape: A Paradisi Chronicles novella (Paradisi Exodus Book 1) by Cheri Lasota

Author:Cheri Lasota [Lasota, Cheri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Near-Future Scifi, action adventure
Publisher: Ever-Sea Press
Published: 2015-09-01T06:00:00+00:00

Solomon peeked through the slider's window. The meeting table was out of his immediate view, but no one lingered around the area beyond the slider. It looked like they had a real chance of slipping in undetected.

“Use your pass to get us through,” Solomon whispered. “Mine might already be flagged.”

Dextra waved her wrist in front of the slider's codebox, and it slid open quietly. They ducked down and immediately hid behind the podium and chairs stacked in the far corner of the meeting room. Solomon slowly moved some of the chairs to shield them from anyone exiting or entering the room from this far door. Then they knelt on the floor and listened in to the meeting already in progress, looking through the legs of the chairs to watch as all the bigwigs discussed their fate.

“Is it certain, Daniela?” he heard Alexandra Justice say.

“Yes,” Docking Commander Daniela Marcks replied. “Given the sheer number of nukes both countries let loose, nuclear winter is a mathematical certainty according to our own Astro Lab experts as well as the International Consortium.”

Solomon shifted his position so he could find her location. Her flame red hair and petite frame stood out among the dour faces of the other board members. So she was here. Good. He'd start tracking her whereabouts after this. He was going to need her later.

Silence took over the group as Marcks's words sunk in. It wasn't every day you heard about the imminent destruction of the only planet you've ever lived on. And nothing was ever going to be certain about New Eden. Once the Nautilus Fleet had gatejumped through the wormhole, Earth had lost contact with them.

There was no way to know how the Founders had fared through the jump at Sideris Gate other than to assume that the ships he had built for them had made it through safely. He had tried to make sure of that with a protective layer of nanosilc lining the hulls, buffering each ship from micrometeorites, solar radiation, and space debris.

“Let's go over the details again,” he heard Alexandra Justice say.

“Simple,” Marcks said. “We need to reduce time to launch by a half-day given what the latest calculations show. Leave too late and we'll miss the maximum thrust window for our Earth slingshot.”

“We knew going into this that the addition of the Serica group would affect our time table,” Edge said, a layer of exasperation underneath his words.

Solomon moved over a couple of inches so he could peer through the chairs to better watch the proceedings. It sounded like they'd had this plan for a while now.

“The Serica group has been our biggest delay.” Flight Director Giles Benson stood and pressed his palms onto the table. “I still say we need to leave them.”

Dickson Edge glanced around the room. “You all know why that is not an option.”

“If you hadn't started this mess,” Benson countered, “we would have left already.”

He stared coldly at Commander Edge, who seemed to be struggling between a desire to shout in Benson's face or punch him.

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