The Renegat_A Diving Universe Novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Rusch, Kristine Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781561460984
Amazon: 1561460982
Publisher: Wmg Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

The Renegat

Nearly a month had gone by, and still no word from Vice Admiral Gāo. Crowe had trouble believing the vice admiral, who had looked at him with such concern, would ignore what he had told her.

Particularly since she had sent much of the information he had requested almost immediately after he had spoken to her. Her message had promised more, but that hadn’t arrived either.

Crowe wasn’t sleeping much. He was juggling his two jobs, trying to pay attention to the crew and also to all of the engineering challenges on board the Renegat.

The ship had been upgraded, but it was beginning to show some wear. It had been two days since their last foldspace journey—their seventh. Crowe had spent the last two like he had spent the previous two, in engineering, monitoring the communications anacapa. The little foldspace window had opened each time, and on the sixth trip through foldspace, he had sent in a tiny probe—and instantly lost it.

He spent the last journey seeing if he could recover that probe, and of course, he couldn’t. He and Stephanos had figured out that something in that open foldspace window had blocked the channel he was working on.

He had made modifications to the probes, so that the next one he sent in would be sending telemetry on multiple channels as it entered, rather than just one.

He had been so focused on sending probes through that foldspace window—probes that worked and sent information back to him—that he didn’t consider why that one channel had been blocked.

That was odd. And it bothered him. There shouldn’t have been any blocks at all.

Those were the kinds of thoughts that came to him in the handful of hours of sleep that he managed to get. He would wake up thinking about what he missed, or what he should have noticed.

Or, worse, how they were all going to die.

The other reason he didn’t sleep much was that he kept seeing the Scrapheap explosion he had caused as a stupid young man. The way that explosion spiraled out from a handful of ships, heading backwards, igniting the space between the ships, where there should have been nothing, and there was something.

There had been something.

This on-edge feeling he had had ever since he had discovered that tiny foldspace opening—hell, ever since Preemas had told him about the time lag—that feeling was coming from Crowe’s desire to save lives, not cost them.

And he was beginning to realize that by joining this crew, by accepting this potential suicide mission, he would be complicit in costing lives rather than actively saving them.

That fear, which made him sit bolt upright in the narrow bed of his officer’s quarters, was like a thrum underneath his skin, part of him, every minute of every day.

And when he had the nightmare, when he saw that Scrapheap exploding again and again, just like he had seen it in life, the fear changed from a thrum to a drumbeat, consistent with his heartbeat.

Which was why he found

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