Prisoner of Earthside: A Novella (STRYDER'S HORIZON Book 2) by Daniel J. Kirk

Author:Daniel J. Kirk [Kirk, Daniel J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indents&Purposes/Bride of Chaos
Published: 2014-08-07T21:00:00+00:00

Once we reached Macy’s, Alice said something indiscernible and slammed Old Shepard’s door. It sounded like she broke the hinges. I didn’t come after her. She sprinted into the pub and ordered herself a lot to drink, nothing to eat. She cursed and high-fived some of the regulars like nothing was wrong. She was trying too hard.

I found my normal seat taken and took the open one at the end of the bar. Right under the news feeds. I heard a deep Russian laugh.

Gregor sat down next to me. “You are sitting somewhere different. This is why I have not found you all day.”

I wasn’t in the mood to tell the tale of our adventure in Earthside, so I just smiled back.

“Alice and you were on the newsfeed earlier. I thought that can’t be true. They are here in Burnside somewhere. So I came looking for you,” Gregor said. “No one here had seen you since the opening of Workman’s Imperial Brown. I get worried, I think my Kimmie has done something very foolish.” He paused when he saw what I was served. It wasn’t another Imperial Brown Ale. It was just a glass of sweet tea. He gasped, “Kimmie, did you kill a Colonial Officer?”

“A Grand Officer.”

Gregor buried his face in his hands and shook his ratty looking hair.

“Relax, it’ll work itself out.” I barely believed that. It wouldn’t work itself out without me working it out. I was in this whether or not I wanted to be. I should’ve just let Alice take Old Shepard yesterday. I should’ve kept drinking. That’ll be my new rule. Keep drinking until there’s nothing left to drink. Then find where there is something to drink and repeat.

The newsfeed popped on above us.

“More news on the murder that has all of us talking.”

I looked at the viewer and wondered which picture of me they were going to use. I really hoped it wasn’t me all made up like some Earthsider. I’d never live that down.

But as the newsfeed continued, a different woman was shown.

“Historian Melinda Richards was found slain in her home this morning. It is a tragic death as she was set to publish her long awaited biography on Colonial’s Benjamin Reasonover. Her publisher assures us the biography will be released in the near future. Richards was just twenty-eight years old. Her killer is still on the loose. Officers are interested in Randall Nehalem, son of recently murdered Grand Officer Nehalem. And it is believed there may be a connection between the two deaths. More after a word from the best Taco Shop in all of Earthside…”

Randall Nehalem was the teenager that hounded us in Earthside, the one that ran from Grand Officer Nehalem’s room. I had hoped to keep the Colonials off his tail long enough to figure out what this had to do with Thom Crisp, but now they seemed to have a stronger reason to go after him. What’s worse is that Alice and I should’ve had our faces plastered right alongside him.

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