The Lost Thorn by Joshua P. Aguayo

Author:Joshua P. Aguayo [Aguayo, Joshua P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cyberpunk, strong female lead, science fiction, LGBTI, fantasy, urban, latino
Publisher: Full Runa Transmedia Studio
Published: 2015-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“This way.”

“Kiri, what’s going on?”

She dragged me to the cafe’s kitchen, a sterile white environment with rehydration terminals and synth-adapting machines littering most of it. The majority of employees cared little for our presence, the rest were androids, so one of the automatons came forward and spoke to us in a rather fake human tone.

“Dear customer: Please return…”

We strode through the kitchen up to a backdoor. Kiri began fiddling with the unlocking pad.

“You!” I grabbed one of the chefs by the collar. He was a red haired, rather young woman. “I need you to open this.”

“Can’t do it…”

Before she continued, I grabbed a knife from a close drawer left open. The woman tried to jump back and I pulled her back in.

“Sam!” Kiri protested.

“Look sister, you can open that damn door...”

“Samantha, stop that!”

“Would you listen to what I have to say?” I growled at Kiri, then went back to the scared woman being held by my hand. “Or you open the door or I get all stabby stabby with the unlocking pad. Guess who is gonna have to pay for it.”

“Okay, okay. I’ll open it. Relax.” She activated her P.A.D. and the door unlocked.

“Easy, wasn’t it?” People today value their BitCredits more than their lives.

We used the back door and found ourselves inside Carondelet’s Palace itself, we were in a long corridor made of ancient stone. Given all the things those halls had seen, if things got heated I would had been able to draw on the magic contained in the stones around us. But she continued to drag me along without answering my question and I got the feeling that at that point, that was my best option.

We took another door, this time it had a simple lock and Kiri made short work of it. We were spit back into the colonial streets. Back at the Square, a group of security-uniforms was running in our direction. Kiri and I darted the opposite way, turned left, fought against the current of people for a couple of steps and then jumped when we heard the humming of a miniaturized fusion engine approaching us. A grey and white sports car with smoked windows stopped mere meters from us. I took a step back but Kiri pulled me forward.

“That’s my dad. Relax.”

“I don’t want to see your dad!”

“Sam. Trust me. My dad is on our side.”

“Our side?”

She strode forward, opened the car’s back door, basically threw me inside and followed in. As soon as the door slammed, the engine roared and I hit my head against the car’s roof as the stone below the tires made it repeatedly jump. Wasn’t vehicle traffic forbidden? It is, unless you are a fat ClearSight fish.

“Technically, you are on our side, and not the other way around.” Kiri said once inside the car, still breathing heavily and gathering her hair in a ponytail.

Before I could answer, a woman in the passenger’s seat put a fully charged mag pistol right in front of my face. I instinctively put my hands in spellcasting position, as useless at that would have been at that time.

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