Registry's Secrets (The Mengliad Series Book 2) by Janeway Jana

Author:Janeway, Jana [Janeway, Jana]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: JanaOnWheels, Ink.
Published: 2014-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

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“It’s too risky.”

“It’s not. Trust me, this’ll work.”

“It’s our best hope, really. We don’t have anything of value that they want.”

Craddock entered the kitchen after catching just a few short sentences of the seemingly important conversation.

“What’s going on?” His eyes landed on Marcy out of habit. She usually had the scoop on whatever was transpiring in almost every given situation.

“We have a plan to rescue the Mitchells,” she answered.

“But some of us aren’t quite sure it’ll work.” The man who said that looked frustrated.

“Okay.” Craddock sighed as he dropped his head. When he looked up again, he stared directly at Marcy. “What’s the plan, and what are the concerns?”

“It’s tricky to explain in full detail,” she said, “but the gist is, we hack into the Registry’s computer’s mainframe and hold their entire world hostage until they release them.”

Craddock nodded. “And the concerns?”

“They could trace us as we’re hacking in,” the man from before answered, “and we’d have six dozen agents on our doorstep in a heartbeat.”

“Not if you know what you’re doing,” someone else insisted.

“And what if you make a mistake?” the first man argued.

“I know what I’m doing, Quinn, okay?” the second man shot back. “What, do you think I’d put this entire house in danger?”

“Not intentionally,” Quinn said, a bit more civilly, “but mistakes can happen. I’m not so sure we should be taking such a risk.”

Craddock allowed his gaze to wander past the two men arguing. When it landed on Shea, standing calmly off to the side, his heart lurched.

Shea knew about the plan? How had that happened?

“Craddock? Your thoughts?”

He quickly gave Elsa, who had asked for his opinion, his full attention. Not entirely sure how to answer, he suggested, “Maybe we should take a vote?” He glanced up at Shea, briefly, noting the grateful expression he wore.

“I think that’s a good idea!” Kiffen exclaimed. She then began hunting through the kitchen drawers.

“Secret ballot?” Elsa asked, and Kiffen nodded as she continued her search.

Most seemed to be in agreement that a vote was a good way to go, but there were also a few grumbles of protest. Elsa shushed them.

“This is a democratic way to do this. You’ll have your say.”

Finally locating a pad of paper and several pens, Kiffen began handing them around.

“Yes is for moving forward with this plan,” Elsa instructed, “no is for not.”

Craddock accepted his piece of paper and pen, and as the others took theirs, he made his way over to Shea.

“How you holdin’ up?”

Shea let out a sharp sigh. “I’m anxious,” he whispered, “and I want to smack some sense into that Quinn guy, but otherwise… okay, I guess. How’s Jess?”

Both men wrote ‘yes’ on their ballots.

“I think she wants to start smacking people, too.” It was meant as a joke, but his seriousness remained. “She’s frustrated. She’s disbelieving that eating differently could prevent any future problems.”

“Did you attempt to convince her?” Shea asked, still whispering.

“Yeah, but she knows me too well, ya’know? I did what I could to hide it from her, but she can read my general feelings as well as my mind, and what I put forward.

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