Sac'a'rith by Vincent Trigili

Author:Vincent Trigili
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Vincent Trigili
Published: 2015-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

“Hey, Zah’rak,” called Purwryn as I was on my way to the bridge.

“Yes?” I said.

“Marcus is fully functional again. He’ll need a bit of recovery time, but thanks to his implants he can get around just fine now.”

“Excellent!” I said, although ‘fully functional’ seemed like an odd way to put it. “I take it that the message we received from Hospital Station yesterday was of some assistance?”

“Yes. Raquel is preparing a reply with all our new information, just to make sure we didn’t miss anything else.”

“Good. I was just going to the bridge to check out our progress. I believe we’re less than a few days from the military base. From there, we should be able to establish an encrypted channel over the military network for a real-time conversation with the hospital.”

“That would be great. Maybe we should hold the update until then.”

“Good idea, since we might be able to contact them before they could receive that message.” I had turned to continue my way to the bridge when he stopped me again.

“There was something else in the message from Hospital Station, and I think you should look at it right away.”

I followed him back down the corridor and we met with Marcus and Raquel in the mess hall on the Resden craft. They played the message from Dr. Leslie on the hospital station warning us that Resden was hunting us.

“Since we’re sitting on a stolen Resden cruiser, do you want to tell me what it was you did?” I asked.

“Nothing. I already told you everything I know,” said Purwryn.

“I doubt they’d put this much effort into hunting you if there’s no more to it than what you’ve told us. There must be something else,” I said.

“I agree, but I really don’t know what,” said Purwryn.

“Marcus, do you know any more?”

He shrugged and said, “Honestly, I don’t. Before we left I checked with my father, who is the captain of the ship we were serving on, and he didn’t know anything either. He said he anticipated that Resden agents were going to take control from him at the next stop and sweep the ship.”

“That could be it,” said Purwryn. “Maybe they weren’t after us specifically but, since we ran before they could search the ship, they’re making the assumption we’re part of whatever was going on.”

Raquel frowned in thought. “That’s a possibility. Any idea what they were looking for? Was it a person or a thing?”

“No. I wish I did, but I don’t know what they were after,” said Marcus.

“How did they know about the Night Wisp?” I asked. The whole thing stank. Someone knew something; whether it was Purwryn or Marcus I didn’t know, but one of them did. I was sure of it.

“I can answer that,” said Purwryn. “They intercepted the call from me to Crivreen, and his reply. The encryption code we used is a fairly simple one. If they transmitted a copy back home, I’m sure their computers could have cracked it.”

“Makes sense,” I said.

“Look, Resden is after one or both of you for some reason.

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