Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore

Author:James A. Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Titan

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EXAMINATIONS

The van rolled along like a wounded beast, and slowed only as it rounded the edge of the ship.

The three members of the comm team watched them approach and Dae Cho reached to the side of his console and picked up his assault rifle. Perkins and Dwadji stayed where they were, but their expressions said they approved. The weapon was solid and reliable, and came with four grenades and a launcher. He didn’t know exactly what was going on, and he didn’t much care. If the people on that truck came at him screaming, they would die that way.

* * *

Dina Perkins covered her free ear to block out the ruckus, and focus on what Manning was saying. According to him, they’d subdued a bug, but it had revived and bitten someone. They’d been forced to drop it.

Their pathway in was blocked now, and they would have to find a different way out.

No one could get a response from Connors—he and his team were missing in action. Piotrowicz and his team were still among the living, though at least one of them was wounded.

Cho stood up from his seat and swung his rifle over his shoulder, the barrel pointed toward the heavens as he walked toward the newly arrived vehicle, sitting in a cloud of dust. Perkins stayed at her station and Dwadji stayed beside her, trying again to reach Connors.

Willis was already at the door, pulling it open as the people inside tried to spill out. They crammed together so that no one could get anywhere, until the Weyland-Yutani bureaucrat grabbed a handful of shirt and half hauled the first one out. The rest sort of erupted from the vehicle in a frantic mass, like a grim parody of a clown car, seven in all and none of them remotely calm.

A short, heavyset man in his late fifties grabbed Willis by his shoulders and half fell onto him as he looked around.

“Go!” he said breathlessly, looking around in a panic. “We have to go.”

“We can’t go anywhere, Doctor Silas,” Willis responded. “The lift is topside. We’re stuck until it gets back here, Nigel.”

“Then call it!” Silas said. “There might be more of those things. We’ve got to—”

Cho walked over and interrupted.

“More of what things?”

Short-and-round looked at Cho as if he was insane.

“Who are you?” he demanded.

“Security,” Cho said, before Willis could speak. “Now tell me what you’re in a panic about.”

“That city,” Silas said. “It’s got occupants, and they’re evil.”

“Wait, you mean the city at the dig site?”

“Yes.” The man nodded emphatically. “There are things living there, and all they want is to kill us. We have to get away from here!”

“Chill yourself,” Cho said. “We’re not going anywhere for a while. Like the man said, the lift is being loaded with mining equipment. Then it’s supposed to drop to level four and unload all of that stuff. And then it can come down here and get us.”

The man looked like the devil himself was on their heels. His thin hair was plastered to his head with sweat and he wiped at it frantically.

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