Phantom Fangs: Prologue (The Lost Princess 0f Howling Sky Book 0.5) by Kestra Pingree

Author:Kestra Pingree [Pingree, Kestra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: true love, Paranormal & Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Adult Themes, Shifter Mate, Supernatural Fantasy, Protection & Safety, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Multicultural & Interspecies Relationships, Romantic Schemes, Mythical Creatures, Action & Adventure, SciFi Fantasy Romance, Hearts Desire, Futuristic, Dangerous & Deadly, Romantic Suspense, The Lost Princess 0f Howling Sky, Novella Prologue, Short Story
Publisher: Kestra Pingree
Published: 2018-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

TODD

CREATING MY OWN REMOTE access point into any of the four spires was proving to be more difficult than I had anticipated since no one in this world used a universal tech field. Every piece of tech from a different area was built on the same principles, but anything wireless was all floating on different wavelengths. I liked a challenge, but I was getting tired, frustrated tired. I had the suicidal notion of storming into Paws Peak and knocking on a spire door so I could tap into their system locally. The technical side of hacking their system would be easy then, but dangerous physically. No, I needed to improve my tech field. I could beat this challenge, and it would give us the tactical advantage. Not that I cared about that. I only wanted to improve my tech.

I rubbed my eyes with the back of my hand, a bad idea. My eyelids felt like sandpaper. I was tired. And jumpy. I nearly jumped out of my skin when the driver door of the roader I was camped in swung open.

“Time to give it a rest, don’t you think?” Caspian asked as he rested against the open door.

“I’m almost done,” I muttered. I glued my eyes back onto my pactputer’s screen and searched through my lines of code to see what I was missing.

“You’ll do better after you’ve had some sleep.”

Maybe he was right. “Fine. I recorded a bunch of chatter by the way.”

“You did? Why didn’t you say anything? I thought the bugs were sitting quietly on their parked roader. Were they taken to different areas inside of the city?”

“Yes.”

“Should have had Aerre and Rodrick actively listening in on that stuff. It would have given those two nutcases something to do.”

“I didn’t think about that. That would have been an efficient use of time…”

Caspian shook his head and had this sort of humorous smile on his face. At least, I thought it was meant to be humorous. I wasn’t good at reading into someone’s body language. “Todd, you’re the smartest guy I know, but you can be unbelievably dense sometimes.”

“I’ve been letting the recordings play as background noise through my commsbud while I work,” I said, feeling attacked “Most of it is just senseless chatter. Rodrick and Aerre would have gotten bored anyway.”

“That wasn’t a jab or a threat, Todd. No need to get defensive. But we are a team. I think you forget that sometimes. It’s okay to rely on us once in a while…”

Caspian was still talking. I was staring at his mouth as if that would help me read his words while simultaneously tuning him out. I had just finished telling him about how there was nothing interesting in the chatter I was picking up, but one line suddenly became very interesting. I turned to my pactputer and singled out a specific feed, the one where I heard the words “the Lost Princess of Howling Sky.”

“Shut up,” I said, interrupting Caspian’s monologue.

He raised a dark eyebrow at me, but he listened.

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