The Mars One Incident by Kelly Curtis

Author:Kelly Curtis [Curtis, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781079228410
Published: 2019-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

June 17th 2635, Paris, France, Europe

Alma took the Indy’s transport to Paris. She landed in transport parking not far from where her cousin lived. She took the crowded tram six stops and then walked ten minutes through a upmarket residential area to Grace’s art nouveau apartment building. Alma rang the ancient bell and was buzzed in. She pushed through the old wooden door and climbed the naked stone stairs quickly up six floors, rather than taking the slow, ancient elevator that shook every time it passed a floor. Even Alma had a limit to her bravery. There were pleasant green and yellow stained-glass windows with floral designs that shone on the stairs and walls as she climbed. Alma could not help but think about all the people that had climbed these same stairs before her for the last 700 years and how proud she was of humanity, even in its technological infancy, being able to build such lasting and beautiful architecture.

Grace was waiting in the doorway. Her shoulder length blonde hair had been done immaculately in the latest style and her clothing gently complimented her feminine figure. “Alma, du bist mir wirklich eine Kapitänin, sieh dir diese schmutzige lila Uniform an. Komm schon,” Grace and Alma always spoke German together as Alma had spent her summers as a child with her mother and that is when she got to know Grace, as their mothers were sisters.

“Great to see you too,” she wasn’t surprised that Grace had commented on her captain’s uniform in a backhanded way. And to be fair, Alma would not have known what to say if Grace had said something endearing, it wasn’t her way.

Grace shrugged, “What good am I to you, if I only tell you what you already know?”

Alma gave her cousin a half smile and walked into her small, but sophisticated apartment.

“Wine?” Grace asked as she walked into her small kitchen adjacent to the drawing room.

“Always,” replied Alma making herself at home on one of Grace’s beautiful upholstered sofas. She had freshly cut flowers on display, a sign of wealth. Alma stroked a soft petal of a peony absently while she waited.

“Hands off the flowers you military savage,” Grace said smiling, while handing Alma a glass of white wine, “It’s your favorite pinot gris.”

Alma smiled up at Grace, taking the glass and removing her hand from the flower, “Thanks.”

They toasted to Alma’s being captain and then Grace saw her face expression, “Now let’s get right to it, our guild crier said there was something involving you saving some trafficked children, people not of the twelve?”

“Yes,” Alma took a sip of the cool wine and tried to relax. This was Grace her confidant.

“Why would you do such a thing?”

“Because they are human.”

“But they choose to live outside the JC. To procreate without permission. Why should we drain our resources on them? We cannot support everyone.”

“The pirates have been sent to a MAC and questioned for information. The others, mostly women and children were left on Titan Station.

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