The Wanderer: A Space Opera Epic (Twilight of the Godchosen Book 6) by TS Snow

Author:TS Snow [Snow, TS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

Once in the corridor, they got a good look at their captor. He was wearing standard dockworker’s denims and jacket, so nondescript both Tam and Mark realized any description of him would fit a third the male population of Terra. Of the other men, one had been with him at the abduction-site, and was still wearing his coveralls. Both were now armed with laser-pistols as well as tasers.

Twice, Tam tried to speak to him, still offering himself in conciliation to bribe their way free. “I told you I didn’t know. If I had… Let me make it up to you. You know what I can do. Please.”

That last word ended on a desperate note. He winced as he realized it was very plain he was begging.

“Too late.” He was brushed away like a pesky fly. “The next time I hear your name I want it to be in your obituary, stating you died of the black clap or something.”

Ahead, a door slid open. Mark and Tam were pushed inside, and the door locked. They’d been put in a small cabin.

“I’m sorry, Mark,” Tam said. “Looks like my sins are really coming back to haunt me. Big time.”

“Haunt both of us,” Mark corrected.

“If only the Dome hadn’t gotten so selective where I was concerned.”

“No use worrying about it now.” Mark shook his head. “You saw how short he is. He obviously has a giant-size ego to make up for it and that ego’s been badly bruised. Even if he’d taken you up on your offer I doubt if it would’ve mattered.” He looked away. “Thanks for doing that, by the way. You didn’t have to.”

“I was desperate.” Tam let it go at that, not telling Mark that even as he’d said those words to the blackbirder, he was certain he was going to be rejected.

“Guess we’d better make ourselves comfortable. Looks like there’s nothing else we can do right now.” With a sigh, Mark dropped onto the single bed. “You know, if this were a holovid, the gardia would research your background, discover there was a disgruntled customer…and I imagine he raised a holy stink if he got booted out bodily…and they’d find him in their databanks and already be on their way to finding us.”

“It isn’t a holovid,” Tam reminded him. “Nothing in real life ever turns out the way it does in a fiction.”

“I know. Damn it.”

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