Seabound (Seabound Chronicles Book 1) by Jordan Rivet

Author:Jordan Rivet [Rivet, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16—Cabaret

Esther wanted to talk to Neal about what she’d seen, but Neal and Marianna were spending hours every day locked up in the broadcast tower on the Crystal. When Esther asked about it a few days into their stay at the Flotilla, Neal had insisted they were discussing languages and working on the satellite project.

“Marianna’s team is trying to establish contact with any satellites still in orbit. She thinks the ash is finally clear enough to rebuild the old networks.”

A persistent hopefulness had taken up residence on Neal’s face. Esther suspected this had little to do with the satellites. He always seemed to be on the verge of breaking out in song—or tears.

Cally and Dax from Guest Services were spending lots of time together too. She’d come back to the Catalina from their movie date in raptures. She’d spent an hour reporting on the afternoon with a level of detail she never managed when talking about engine maintenance.

“They had sweets packaged in plastic that you could buy with the casino chips and eat in the theater. And the movie! Esther, there were pictures of big fields hundreds of miles from the nearest salt water. And real live horses! Can you imagine? It looked just like Bernadette’s mural!”

Later, Dax had taken her to the smaller library on the Crystal. “We spent hours just reading side by side,” she told Esther as they cleaned out one of the fuel injectors the day after Esther’s visit to the oil tanker. “Can you believe how many books they have? And Dax has been so sweet. He promised to take me to the Galaxy Crown for a special dinner one night. I might even get to see the captains!”

“Judith doesn’t seem to like them very much,” Esther said.

She hadn’t had a chance to report back to Judith about what had happened on the oil tanker. As usual, David Hawthorne and the captains had been keeping her busy.

“Judith is just grumpy. She doesn’t like that someone else is in charge. Anyway, the Galaxy Crown is supposed to be beautiful, even majestic. I want to go there so badly!”

“Mmm.”

Esther’s hands were busy checking and double-checking each element of the injector she’d been working on. It hadn’t been quite right since their journey to the Galaxy.

“Did you hear about the cabaret tomorrow?” Cally’s head bobbed up and down like a buoy on the other side of the engine.

“What’s a cabaret?”

“It’s like a show, but a million times better than the ones we do. Dax told me that we’re all invited. It’ll be on the Galaxy Mist after dinner tomorrow. You should totally come.”

“I might stop by.”

Esther hadn’t visited the Mist yet, but she’d heard from Byron that it was one of the more sparsely occupied ships. A substantial portion of it was used for storage. Maybe she could poke around, find out what kind of supplies were being kept there. It would be good to have something more to report to Judith. Despite herself, she wanted to impress Judith, to prove she’d made the right decision by asking Esther for help.

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