Queen Anne's Revenge by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

Felony Breaking and Entering (April 20, 402)

Siobhan finally understood Trinidad’s nervous twitch, drawing his weapon and checking the charge every few minutes. It gave him something to do while he waited on other people doing things.

She caught herself rocking back and forth while Markus and Bok worked. The faceplate was off the panel beside the door, exposing part of a circuit board and wires, with low voices and a few gestures with tools.

There was nothing for her to do. She almost drew her own pistol to check it, but stopped herself in time. That was Trinidad’s thing. She would just have to come up with her own nervous habit. Flexing every finger in sequence, outer to inner, seemed to soothe her nerves.

Bok grunted a rude profanity. Markus sliced a wire, and the door suddenly retracted into the wall like a starship hatch.

“We’re in,” Markus said over his shoulder.

Nakisha materialized from nowhere, before Siobhan could take even a step, a green and black ghost with a rifle pointed at the floor.

“Me, first,” she insisted.

Siobhan nodded and squeezed a quick fist. Now would finally be the time to draw the pistol.

She left the safety on anyway.

Inside, the ceiling vaulted to something like seven meters. High enough for a second story, but none had been added. Instead, rack shelving dominated the space, full of metal shipping crates that seemed to come in three distinct sizes, the biggest of which looked to be a matched fit for the bed of the truck out front.

Probably a Buran standard she would need to master at some point. She could see stealing the truck by just driving it and a cargo right up the ramp of Anna and flying away. Future raids would be a lot easier if the team came with their own transport.

The blast of cold air in her face was a shock, after the night’s heat. Solid, concrete walls insulated pretty well, especially with cladding on the inside. The air temperature here seemed to be about eight degrees above zero. In her ear, her armor’s system clicked loudly and beeped, letting her know that the cooling system had just changed its mind and cranked the heat up instead.

Proofed against weather, Siobhan followed Nakisha inside.

The warehouse went on forever. Siobhan hadn’t taken long blocks into account when mapping this place, realizing intellectually now that this was two, square, long blocks under a single roof. And this was the smaller warehouse, mostly dedicated to refrigerated and frozen goods, which meant foodstuffs for the most part, plus liquefied gases. She had a note to herself to grab a few bottles of compressed oxygen for welding and such, if they came across them. Also useful to supplement the life support system.

None of the crates were painted with contents on the outside, just bar codes. But she had been prepared for that.

“Find me the shipping office,” she said out loud.

Nakisha moved deeper into the vast space, Siobhan in her wake.

There seemed to be something over there, about midway down this last aisle.

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