Shadower by Catherine Spangler

Author:Catherine Spangler [Spangler, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-03-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Sabin! How long had she left him alone? Moriah looked at the chronometer. Less than an hour had elapsed, but she remembered how he'd burned with fever. Guilt and concern cut through her. She hurried to his cabin.

He lay very still on his bunk, but she heard his labored breathing from the entry. He thrashed when she touched him, but he didn't wake up. He felt even hotter, if that were possible. She re-wet the cloth and wiped his face. The water seemed to evaporate as soon as it touched his skin. Panic elevated her heart rate. He was burning up. Surely he wouldn't die. She knew nothing about illness, only that this was serious, enough to incapacitate him.

She had the sudden thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to escape. But, no, she couldn't do that. Sabin had treated her wound from the Jaccians. He had spared her life when she discovered the Shielder colony, and he had protected Celie. Every shred of honor within her demanded that she help him now. That—and an emotional pull she didn't dare want to admit or recognize.

But what to do? Stroking his hair back from his damp skin, Moriah stared at his flushed face. If she only knew of a nearby healer, or someone to call for help…There was someone she could call. Chase McKnight, Sabin's partner. He might know where to find a healer.

Returning to the cockpit, she tried to access Sabin's communication log. Like the navigation pod, it was secured by code. Frustrated, she clenched her teeth and began typing furiously. She gave a sigh of relief when she found what she sought—the decoding program she'd created when she had hijacked the ship. Sabin obviously hadn't had the time to determine she'd accessed his PWL file, which gave master access to everything on the ship.

She wasn't a computer genius by any stretch. Celie had much more ability in that area. But their father had been a liar and a thief, and he'd taught them early on how to do his dirty work for him. That had included stealing ships, which had come in useful a time or two. So Moriah did have enough basic knowledge to get past the security measures on most computers.

She reactivated the decoding program, and the codes appeared on the screen in proper alphanumeric sequences. There they were—the override codes for both the communication log and the navigation system. Now she could access the subspace frequencies for all Sabin's contacts, erase the records for her own unauthorized communications, and set the ship's course for wherever she desired. Not that she intended to change course, unless it was necessary to find a healer.

She found Chase McKnight's frequency and connected, wondering how much time had been lost while she overrode Sabin's lockouts. It seemed to take forever for the hailing signal to reach a satellite and then locate Chase's ship. "McKnight here," finally came the gruff voice.

"Moriah Cameron here. I'm with Sabin Travers, on his ship."

"I know who you are.

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