The Authority by Ramona Finn

Author:Ramona Finn [Finn, Ramona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-09T22:00:00+00:00

But I couldn’t effing find her.

I even went so far as to check in with one of the head techs to see if anyone had been transferred to someplace else. Or had fallen ill. Or had been reported missing.

If she found the questions weird, she didn’t act like it. Maybe that’s the way she spoke to all Datapoints, or just to me—I couldn’t be sure. But either way, everyone on the Station was present and accounted for.

Which led me to believe that my mother was avoiding me.

She had to know that I’d been looking for her. It was probably obvious to anyone who was watching me that I was looking for someone. And she must know why I was looking for her, right? It had been what we’d decided on. That I wouldn’t try to make contact again until I had the info off of Haven’s computer. So why the hell was she avoiding me? This was mission accomplished and she was tripping at the finish line.

Over the next two days of fruitless searching, anxiety rose up within me with a choking ferocity. Dahn was back to barely acknowledging me. Physically, Cast was doing better, but he hadn’t spoken again since the first day I’d visited him.

And my mother was a complete ghost.

Meanwhile, Charon sat on the other end of the solar system like a fat rabbit during hunting season. And Haven had the shotgun.

I wondered, for the hundredth time, what the hell had happened to my comm after Sullia had attacked me. Because either it had gone unnoticed and into the trash bin, or she’d found it and currently had possession of it.

I was desperate enough that I would have reached out to Kupier, if I could have. Even though he was deceptive and couldn’t be trusted, and even though we didn’t know if that comm line was safe or not. But the information I had about the bomb was too important. Lives hung in the balance and I had to warn them.

It was the middle of the night, as I jolted out of a cold sleep, when the idea occurred to me. Would I even have to warn the Ferrymen about the imminent attack on Charon if I could stop the attack on Charon?

The last I’d seen the ship, it had been parked for diagnostic testing on the landing pad of the Station. Was there any chance at all that it was still on the Station? And if it was, could I possibly find a way to gain access to it?

My mind was whirring, and I didn’t make it back to sleep. By morning, I had a plan.

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