The Worldship Humility by R. R. Haywood

Author:R. R. Haywood [Haywood, R. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07M7L7SRZ
Published: 2019-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

‘…And now, five days later and still no arrests have been made. Just how incompetent are the police over on the WS Humility? A trio of criminals ran riot through the stores on the same day a woman violently attacked a man on a stairwell with a knife and get this, all of the security camera footage has been corrupted by a virus! How does that even happen? Just how inept are the fleet police on the Humility?’

Sam Gablinski wakes in his sleeping tube, yawning and rolling over to squint at Kristi Carter telling the fleet how shit the WorldShip Humility is again.

‘But hey, at least today we get to report on another ship in the fleet today as the Beijing’s docking crisis continues to worsen. It’s a computerised system! The shuttles come in. They go out. Why the massive delays? And with the ripples going through the fleet that Helga will win captaincy of the Humility and forge a stronger alliance with the virtue ships it’s only going to get worse. There’s even word of the Beijing and Vladivostok joining forces to offset the balance of power.’

Sam used to fancy Kristi Carter, but then 99% of the fleet also probably fancy Kristi Carter. Blond hair. Blue eyes. Flawless skin. Perfect teeth, but the allure isn’t quite the same as it was because Sam now quite likes dark hair and the mixed-race skin tone of a certain woman with a mouth like a crew worker who openly admits with brazen honesty that she was using him in order to commit a criminal act. Still, it beats trying to flirt with a suicide booth.

He walks out of his cabin and up to level 30, delving into the lanes and walkways to the far side where the smaller, cheaper units are.

The Kingdom of Osmosis and he pushes in through the manual door and heads to the counter to see Osmosis bent over examining the insides of a wristband while various feeds and screens glow in the air all about him. A worried looking customer waits nearby, biting her bottom lip in a way that tells Sam her wristband is malfunctioning, and she cannot afford a new one.

‘Keeps losing signal,’ she says.

‘You told me,’ Osmosis mutters. ‘Several times. Samuel. Long time no see. Heard you have a girlfriend now. Get out and don’t ever come back.’

‘Can you fix it?’ the woman asks, still biting her bottom lip. ‘It keeps losing signal.’

‘Hmmm, if only I knew what was wrong with it,’ Osmosis says.

‘I just said. It keeps losing signal.’

‘Damn it,’ Osmosis says, lifting his head up to look dumbfounded. ‘Anyone in here have any idea what could be wrong with this wristband? It’s like it just won’t connect to the system and keeps losing signal.’

‘Does it keep losing signal?’ someone asks from the depth of an aisle.

‘Maybe it won’t connect,’ another says.

‘That,’ the woman says angrily, snatching her wristband back. ‘Is why you’re all still virgins.’

‘I’m not a virgin,’ one of the voices says.

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