The Iron Admiral: Conspiracy by Greta van Der Rol

Author:Greta van Der Rol [Rol, Greta van Der]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781304707215
Google: sUrTnQEACAAJ
Amazon: B00I90OGEY
Publisher: LULU Press
Published: 2013-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

“Me? Umm…”

“We’re to be married. Very soon,” Brad said. He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles.

He had no doubt, no doubt at all. Whether she liked it or not.

The door opened and a conical form appeared. A ptorix. He seemed to float into the room, his four short legs invisible under the garment. The three eyes near the top of the pointed head swirled blue.

Allysha noticed Roland’s quickly-hidden grimace.

“This is my colleague, Grallaz,” Tyne said.

Grallaz did a complicated half-bow, his tentacles intertwined. “Recalibrated izz your shift drive, Mizzter Roland,” he said, hissing the sibilants in the normal ptorix way. “Will perform more quietly from now.”

“Yeah. Thanks.” Not a friend of the ptorix, their host.

Tyne made the introductions. Allysha rose and mirrored Grallaz’s bow.

“I am honored to meet you, Sir,” she said in Ptorix. “Are you an engineer?”

Grallaz’s eyes swirled from the blue of concern through green to yellow. “You speak our language very well, lady. So rare. Yes, I specialize in space ship engines, shift drives and so forth. How do you come to know our culture so well?”

“I grew up in Shernish on Carnessa. My childhood friends were ptorix. I am an engineer, too, but for information systems. I would like to see what you’ve done with the ion drive.”

“Since we don’t all speak Ptorix, Allysha, it might be better if you two spoke Standard like the rest of us,” Brad said.

She flushed. Rude of her. “Sorry. I just asked him what he’d done with the ion drive. I’d like to see.”

“Ah. So you’re an engineer as well, Miss Marten?” Roland said.

She swung around to him.What a surprise, huh? A brain, no less .

“Yes. Information systems, but that’s what runs space ships, I’m beginning to find.”

“Where are we headed, Roland?” Brad asked.

“Kentor. Another mixed human-ptorix world where Tyne and his pal will be comfortable. You two should be able to get on from there, I expect.”

“Yes,” Brad said. “The powers on Kentor have no love of the Khophirate. Or of the Confederacy.

We’ve been out of circulation for a little while. What news of Brjyl?”

Roland smirked. “Governor Anxhou has sent one of his warships into orbit at Carnessa.”

Brad stiffened. “And the Confederacy has allowed this?”

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