The Scipio Alliance by M. D. Cooper

Author:M. D. Cooper [Cooper, M. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781979599733
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Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2017-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

INVESTIGATION

STELLAR DATE: 08.11.8948 (Adjusted Years)

LOCATION: Intrepid Space Force Academy

REGION: The Palisades, Orbiting Troy, New Canaan System

Following their dinner with Nance, Cary and Saanvi decided to forgo the maglev and walk through the station hub on their way back to Ring Three.

Neither spoke for the first few minutes. Then Cary blurted out, <Did we jump the gun? I don’t want to start some sort of crazy inquiry till we know more.>

<Me either,> Saanvi replied. <But she lied to us about where she was. If it was official business, she could have said so, and we wouldn’t have pushed—which means it isn’t on the books.>

Cary shook her head. <Unless her official business was ‘looking good while out for a run’, she wasn’t up to anything of the sort.>

<You two are overlooking the most obvious answer,> Faleena said. <Which is surprising for Saanvi, given how much she thinks about JP.>

<Fal!> Saanvi exclaimed, and Cary glanced at her sister to see her reddening.

<I don’t know…Nance isn’t some lovesick pup like Sahn here. She’s over sixty years old. Well past boy-chasing age, right?> Cary asked.

<I’m not chasing after JP! Have you seen me doing any chasing lately?>

Faleena chuckled in their minds. <Have you considered that maybe that’s a part of the problem?>

<What problem?> Saanvi groused.

<OK, Sahn,> Cary said with a small grin. <We’ll cut you some slack, but I feel like JP may be too nervous to make the first move with you. Happens sometimes. Doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong.>

Saanvi threw her arms in the air and let out a cry of frustration. “Can we keep this conversation on track?

Cary giggled. “Sorry, you’re such an easy target.”

<OK, so while you two were driving each other up the wall—>

<No, Cary’s been driving me up the wall, I’ve done no driving,> Saanvi interrupted.

<Right, whatever,> Faleena continued. <Anyway, I did a little snooping on Nance—nothing that will raise any alarms. I have some discretionary access to station surveillance to help keep an eye out for trouble, and—>

<What does that mean?> Cary interrupted her younger sister. <’Discretionary access to surveillance’? And why do you have it?>

<Uhhh…It’s part of what Moms made sure I had, so I could keep an eye out for you two.>

<Really? They gave it to you, and not me?> Saanvi sputtered.

Faleena shrugged in their minds. <I guess they figured that you’d get access your own way, Sahn.>

<How is it that I’m the straight-laced one here?> Cary asked, her mouth open in surprise as she stared at Faleena in her mind. <I’ve just been trying to fly under the radar and not have anyone come down on me for all my past misdeeds.>

<OK, back on track.> Faleena said. <I was able to pull logs of Nance’s activity. She’s on a preapproved list of people I can access, since she interacts with us.>

<Wow, we have a preapproved spy list!> Saanvi interrupted. <Can I get in on that?>

<Sahn, can I finish what I’m trying to say? Seriously. They’re right about youngest sisters, no one ever lets them talk.>

Cary held back a snicker and glanced at Saanvi’s mollified look out of the corner of her eye.

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