The Jolo Vargas Space Opera Series Box Set by J D Oppenheim

Author:J D Oppenheim [Oppenheim, J D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space Opera Sci-Fi
Publisher: J.D. Oppenheim
Published: 2019-09-16T06:00:00+00:00

On Merthon’s orders, Jolo went to bed, but he couldn’t sleep. He just stared at the big picture frame on the wall that showed a rotating video of the topside landscape right above Marco’s. Usually it was just a wide swath of orange earth then blue sky above, but all day small boats shuttled back and forth: the tower busters resupplying.

Jolo didn’t know what to do with down time, especially when the planet was going BOOM in a little over three weeks. Finally, after watching the umpteenth hover craft, weighed down with heavy charges and riding low, racing across the flat, Duval landscape, across his picture frame, he put on his clothes and went up to the staging area. His head was pounding and his mouth was dry. George was there with a thin screen in his hand keeping tabs on the inventory of charges, magna hooks, and energy rifles. He was shouting something to a tower buster crew as they left. He saw Jolo and frowned.

Jolo noticed something different in the synth, but couldn’t place it. And then Jolo’s headache got worse and he started to sway a little. His vision got dark around the edges, the darkness closing in until there was one tiny point of light. He came to again in his room and wondered if it’d been a dream. George was there.

“How’d I get back here?” said Jolo.

“I carried you,” said George.

“How? You’ve only got one—” and then he saw it: George had two arms. He smiled.

“A gift from Merthon. And you got a gift from the old frog, too.”

“What?”

“A tranquilizer shot.”

Jolo reached up to touch George’s new arm, warm and muscular. “Very human,” said Jolo.

“I know,” he said, grinning.

“I don’t feel like I got shot,” said Jolo, and then the drug took effect and he slid off to sleep.

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