Reaper by Janet Edwards

Author:Janet Edwards [Edwards, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Janet Edwards
Published: 2016-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

We were back in our familiar luxury carriage. In one of the seats sat a golden droid. That had been Hawk’s alter ego, and now Hawk was the skinny, dark haired boy sitting facing me. There was something disturbingly surreal about seeing the pair of them together.

It was even more surreal to have Falcon Rodriguez here with us. Falcon didn’t seem to have changed at all since the last time I’d seen him. I’d told him a paper-thin story about a plan to make my old instructor confess to altering my grades. Fortunately, Falcon hadn’t paid any attention to my reasons for faking my own murder, focussing in on what, for him, was the only important point. We were about to put on a performance, and any performance organized by Falcon Rodriguez had to be absolutely perfect.

Falcon smoothed a final dab of makeup over the fake skin on my neck, stepped back, studied the result, and nodded. “Done.”

“It itches,” I complained, moving my right hand towards my neck.

Falcon slapped my hand away. “Don’t scratch the fake skin or you’ll disturb the blood packs underneath, and you ...”

He turned to point at Hawk. “I want a proper knife flourish from you when you cut Jex’s throat, not those pathetic slicing gestures that you were doing in rehearsal. Remember that when the trick knife cuts Jex’s throat, releasing the fake blood to cover her in gore, it will also trigger the injection of the drug to knock her unconscious and slow her breathing. You should wait for two seconds to give the drug time to work, and then let her go so she slumps dramatically to the floor.”

“I’m still not sure that it’s a good idea to inject Jex with that drug,” said Hawk.

The perfectionist Falcon waved a dismissive hand. “Jex said it was vital for her to be a convincing corpse.”

“Yah, but I don’t want you making a mistake and turning her into a genuine corpse.”

“I never make mistakes,” said Falcon.

Hawk closed his eyes for a moment, before speaking in a strained voice. “If you’ve finished work, then we can drop you off at the next transport stop.”

“I’m staying to watch the performance,” said Falcon.

Hawk leaned across to adjust the carriage guidance system. “That isn’t possible in this case.”

Falcon frowned. “You’re just being difficult.”

“No, he isn’t,” I said. “Thank you for the help, Falcon. I’m very grateful, but this is one performance where you’ll have to settle for watching the replays later.”

He gave me one of his wide range of sulky looks. “I’m not leaving.”

“If you stay, our instructor will recognize you, and that will ruin my whole plan to make her confess.”

He folded his arms. “The instructor will probably recognize you too. I told you that hair dye isn’t much of a disguise. You should let me use flesh coloured wax to make your nose look a different shape.”

“My appearance is all part of my plan,” I said. “You aren’t, so you have to go.”

“But ...”

I interrupted him. “Falcon,

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