Recovery Man: A Retrieval Artist Novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: WMG Publishing

Thirty-One

Tejumola Kazin’s version of legal maneuvering left Celestine Gonzalez feeling dirty. But the little lawyer with the weird gray suit had done what he had promised; he had gotten her out of that line within ten minutes, and he had gotten her a work visa, as well as permission to stay in Valhalla Basin for a week.

Now she stood outside the port in a town that looked too new to be a domed city. Every building had the latest paint style, the most current windows, the best sidewalks. The roads looked unused even though dozens of cars drove along the surface.

Most of the aircars had official markings—whether those markings belonged to Aleyd or the city government, it didn’t matter—and the cars on the ground had none.

Gonzalez was getting a feel for this place. Maybe that was what had left her feeling dirty, not the way that Kazin practiced law.

After informing her that Oberholst had gone to his hotel, Kazin had scuttled back inside the port when he’d finished getting her out of that line—apparently looking for more customers. Once Gonzalez had gotten outside the port and turned her links back on, she got a message from Oberholst, telling her to join him as soon as she’d located Talia Shindo.

Thanks for the support, Gonzalez wanted to send back to him. But she knew better than to yell at her boss, particularly this boss—the senior partner for the entire company, the largest shareholder, and one of the more powerful attorneys on Armstrong.

And, apparently, elsewhere in the solar system.

She set her small bag down, then ran a hand through her hair. She’d been standing here too long.

An aircar swooped below eye level and the passenger side window opened. A man leaned toward her.

“Would you—?”

“No,” she said. “Thank you.”

She had turned away enough cabs in the last half hour to recognize yet another. They seemed to zoom in on her. Maybe it was the bag, maybe it was the fact she was loitering. Maybe it was simply that they always did so whenever someone stood alone.

She backed closer to the exterior wall of the port, then put a hand to her ear. She dialed up the white noise of her link. Still working, even this close to the port, but she was getting no result.

The moment she had stepped outside, she switched her links back on. That was when she had gotten the order from Oberholst to come to the hotel after she had found Talia Shindo.

Gonzalez had expected to work from her hotel room, but Oberholst had nixed that quickly. He wanted the girl found first, and comfort later.

Gonzalez should have expected that. She should have thought of it herself. But she usually didn’t focus on strange clients in distress. Most of the clients she saw were already charged with a crime or had been falsely accused of something.

And that was on Armstrong, where she knew all the laws.

She’d downloaded the local Valhalla Basin laws, but hadn’t had time to study them. Instead, she’d set aside a small personal download which would go directly into a link in her brain.

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