The Dragon Commander by Kennedy K King

Author:Kennedy K King [King, Kennedy K]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Five: Suzy’s Borderline B&B

“Feeling better?” said Selene, offering Tim a hand to help him down from the train. He took it without shame. Morgan and Lee couldn’t hold back the laughter when Tim’s wobbling almost took them both down.

“Believe it or not, I am. Sorry… I don’t usually travel by magnetrain,” said Tim. He fell into Selene’s surprisingly gentle arms from the bottom step. She batted her eyelids at him from a couple inches away, then cracked into laughter.

“Sorry, I’m not the prince charming type, Timmy. Try Gendric,” Selene smiled, and handed Tim off to the massive mostly-bald man.

“I can hold you up for hours on end,” rumbled Gendric, which roused laughter from everyone. They enjoyed the moment of lightness before they had to let it go.

Chris led his contingent, plus Tim, through the twisted trees on the fringe of Shanghai. Gendric only had to help Tim walk for about ten minutes before he found his legs again. From there, Chris was surprised to see him keep pace without an issue, through the tiny fields just outside the city. They made their way to the motel from the assignment papers Dorothy had given them, to check into base camp. The view from the front was of tall, glowing towers. From the back, there were only fields of straw and vegetables.

“I tell you, I’m scared. I know we’re outside the safety perimeter, but I never would have stayed after the evacuation until that nice lady Dorothy called,” said the owner.

“Nice?” Lee murmured.

“I can’t believe I’m hosting a real WCC task force,” chattered the owner, presumably Suzy of ‘Suzy’s Borderline B&B’. “Here are your room keys. Three two-bed rooms.” said she, who handed the cards to Chris.

“Thank you, ma’am. It’s appreciated,” Chris gave her a little bow. She did the same, before the six headed back out to the half-dark of a city border. Tim moved for the uniform rows of doors, while his five protectors made for the parking lot. Selene winked back at him.

“Like we’d miss this chance to cut down on work! We need to set a perimeter, and these take two to work.” she said, holding up a pair of tiny silver pods.

“What are those?” Tim groaned. His legs threatened to fold beneath him while they dragged all the way to the back of the unit.

“FOS jammers,” rumbled Gendric. Tim shuddered. A single pulse from one of those could undo all the work he’d put in with TE-Les. He’d never seen ones just like those, though. They were bigger, and had slits down the middle of one flat face. Selene demonstrated by holding her two jammers inches apart, and clicking the buttons on their backsides. A translucent sheet of blue light swam between the two pods.

“Anything running on an AI will fry if they pass through it,” said Morgan, who took Tim’s sudden quietness as confusion.

“I know,” he said, sick as he took one. After all that talk on the train about thinking and feeling.

“Form up to set the perimeter.

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