The Quantum Curators and the Great Deceiver by Eva St. John

Author:Eva St. John [St. John, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00

Revenge: Neith–October/November–Alpha Earth

Chapter Twenty-Four - October: Alpha: Neith

I pushed back from my desk and sighed. I had always suspected office life wouldn’t suit me, and so far, I was right. This was the end of my first week, and already I was dying of boredom.

My desk was at the far end of a large office. There were three other people in the room, all archivists, all working quietly. Yesterday, one of them hiccoughed, the second one giggled, the third one tutted, and silence was restored. They did talk, but at times of mutual agreement. When Minju had introduced me to them as their new boss and as a Potential Archivist, they had all formally shaken my hand, smiled pleasantly, then ignored me and went back to work.

At first, I thought they were offended at having a Potential placed above them. After the second day, I decided they didn’t care. I would either prove myself, which would be good, or I would fail and move on, which would also be good.

Now I just had to learn how to be an archivist. I’d spent the past two months taking micro courses, reading and testing, then reading some more. No need for anything as alarming as physical training. Combat training for archivists no doubt dealt with photocopiers and tricky box cabinets. They were surprisingly old school.

Every day my new team steadily built a pile of paper reports on the central table. Each time one of them placed a report on the pile, the others stopped what they were doing and clapped softly.

The excitement was killing me.

Sui-hu stood up and came over to me. She was a young woman in her mid-twenties, with long black hair that shone like a mirror. At the moment, it was held back in two clips and a toggle.

‘Potential Archivist Salah—’

I held up my hand. ‘Please, just Neith.’

Being a potential was still a new idea, but it was catching on. However, I couldn’t get used to not being Curator Salah, so I had asked them all to call me Neith. I didn’t think they approved. Sloppy classification and all that. Instead, she just nodded and carried on.

‘We’re going for drinks later. Would you like to join us?’

I slapped my hands on the table. ‘Now you’re talking!’

Sui-hu stepped back and Fuad and Hinks looked up in distress.

I apologised, although I wasn’t sure what for, and whispered that I would be delighted to join them. Friday Night was Shots Night, and it was time I let my hair down with my new workmates.

I had been deliberately distancing myself from my former friends. It had been a month since I had provoked Ramin. He had contacted me twice since then, but each time I rejected his call. The news that Luisa had been killed terrified me. I didn’t believe for one second that she had voluntarily stopped. I didn’t know if she had been killed because I had approached her, or because she accompanied Julius back to his Earth. Either way, I needed to move carefully.

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