Project Exodus by Justin Sloan

Author:Justin Sloan [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elder Tree Press
Published: 2018-02-24T22:00:00+00:00

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Istanbul

Shrina couldn’t believe she was actually in Turkey. Stepping out of the plane, she glanced back, worried some agent would tackle her and put her under arrest, or worse, for misusing federal resources. Everything she had just done could get her kicked out of the FBI, ruin her shot at SIA, and likely destroy her chances at ever having a normal career.

But she’d made it and was close to finding out if her sister was actually alive. At the airport exit, she checked the coordinates she’d received against a tourist map. It looked like they belonged to a hostel between the palace and an old mosque that had once been a church. The water wasn’t far off, and she had to smile. Her sister knew she didn’t travel much, at least not like Alicia had, and she imagined this location had been picked as a way of rectifying her lack in the sight-seeing department.

Aside from a bit of illegal use of her position and a chance to be a tourist, she was about to either learn the truth about her sister or be caught in some sort of Taken-style trap. Whatever happened next, she was excited.

The west side of Turkey enjoyed all the advancements of the Americas—fancy hyperloop trains, flying pod cars, and also everything one would find in the less advanced countries, complete with old-style bikes. She hadn’t seen one of those except in pictures. Making her way to the hyperloop, she listened intently to the sounds of heavily accented English mixed with random words of Turkish and thought it a shame that so many people had moved away from their traditional languages. Cultural centers still taught mother tongues, but overall the world was moving to a unified language, and fast.

She bought her ticket with credits, glad they didn’t live in a draconian system where people had to exchange money, and then found a spot on a train headed for the large mosque. A tall, scruffy man with gray hair made room for her, offering up his seat and insisting when she refused. Not wanting to draw attention to herself, she thanked him and took the seat, pulling her backpack up close to her chest as she stared out through the window. Everything about this place was beautiful.

The train moved off without a jolt, the magnetics of travel pulling them along smoothly and quickly. Spires and domes in the distance shone beautifully in the morning light, and she couldn’t help picturing herself back there hundreds of years ago when many of the spires hadn’t been metal and the domes not made of glass that flashed lights along the buildings. The remnants of an ancient civilization were certainly there, but she could already see the bridge that was now covered top and bottom with boxed housing and trade units, likely full of black-market types and worse. Gleaming skyscrapers that had likely risen up in the last fifty to one hundred years spoke of the change that was taking over Istanbul,

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