Spacer's Luck (Breach of Faith Book 5) by Daniel Gibbs & Gary T. Stevens

Author:Daniel Gibbs & Gary T. Stevens [Gibbs, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

The hauler was quiet on the way back to the Venture Star. Janet enjoyed it. They were squeezed in, given Barnad, and it made the five-minute ride uncomfortable. She noted the others’ careful gazes. They were on the lookout for more Droogs.

The thought of the Droogs made her want to wash her mouth. They tasted of more than sweat, but a certain… grunginess? She wasn’t sure of the right word. She just knew it made her want to scrub her tongue and wash her teeth twice as hard. The masks made her think of being a child, of… No. Don’t want to think of it. Don’t. Don’t think of it.

The old memories were always there. It hurt, thinking of those days, of everyone she’d lost, no matter how hard they’d tried to stay one step ahead, to ease their grumbling bellies without getting sent into the camps.

The hauler entered the hangar. Seconds passed before whoever was on bridge watch—probably Brigitte—opened the hold. Pieter drove them in, and the hold quickly closed, like a drawbridge in some old fairy-tale castle facing an imminent siege.

Pieter turned on his link. “Captain, we’re not safe here. Had some of those masked people you fought in Dashe looking for us.”

A short silence preceded a reply. “Get everyone up to the infirmary. Time for a crew meeting.”

“Also, should tell you, I brought aboard the local machinist. The savages were going to kill him. He helped us.”

“Acknowledged.”

“You have regular meetings in your infirmary?” Barnad asked.

“No, but the Captain was wounded in Crater Lake. The surgeon’s got her.”

“Ah.” He said nothing further while following Pieter to the stairs.

Janet took up the rear of the group, just behind Samina.

With the exception of Brigitte and Stepan, everyone on the crew assembled in the infirmary. Janet stood in one corner, quietly checking the scraps of paper she’d pulled from the Droogs’ pockets while Pieter introduced Barnad and explained what happened.

“Well, so much for lying low here.” Piper sighed. “Anywhere else anyone can think of?”

“No cities. Nothing close to the Wildlands, but it’s sounding like even away from the Wildlands, the people peddling this Curall stuff are flexing muscles.” Markson glanced at Laila. “You know anything?”

“No,” she replied. “The SMRO has some medical camps, but they’re all close to the main cities, and even if they weren’t, we’d just be making them targets.”

“So, why are the Droogs after you?” Barnad asked.

“Because we have a sample of their Curall.” Miri nodded to Cristina. “They took her crew, and she got away.”

“You have an actual sample?” The Harr’al machinist let out another of his rapid-fire whistling noises. “No wonder they’re angry. Nobody gets a sample. You use it or don’t get it. If they weren’t already going to kill me, I’d take my chances off your ship.”

“We just need to wait out the rest of the week until the asteroids clear,” Brigitte said from the bridge.

“Is there anywhere we could hide and not have to shut down everything to stay off sensors?” Samina asked Barnad.

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