Thrive Earth Rematch (Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures Book 2) by Ginger Booth

Author:Ginger Booth [Booth, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-22T06:00:00+00:00

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Sass cut off her scream abruptly, throat raw her from her outburst. The wings crashed into the claw blades to either side, and sliced off, a meter tip on one side, half a wing on the other. The impact threw their swing seat forward, laying her back, feet pointed toward the nose of the flyer. She desperately blew out, trying to get her wind for what would certainly come next – an uncontrolled cartwheel off the breakwater to smash into the waves, boats, and docks a half-dozen stories below.

Mal’s problems would be over – that fall wasn’t survivable for him. But Sass would be mangled, and had to protect Fidget and –

Her fevered rapid-fire calculation came to an abrupt end, as the glider jerked her backward even harder, even as the nose and stump wings dropped over the far edge of the breakwater. But instead of plummeting to Mal’s death, they jerked to an abrupt stop, dangling over the brightly lit splashing marina hodge-podge below.

Sass gasped and blew out raggedly, gazing wide-eyed at the storm-writhing opportunities for impalement below. Her heart pounded like a drum.

Mal Mendoza laughed out loud beside her. “That never gets old! Though, maybe I am.”

Maybe. “How did you stop?”

He released his death grip on the frame to enact a little hand-play to explain. “Remember the launch hook on the glider tail? You come in low enough, you catch that hook on the railing. It’s better to catch the outer side like we did, but you get a second chance on this side.”

“You’ve done this insane thing before!” Sass accused.

“I love hang-gliding! There’s a bigger gap in the claws over that way.” He indicated vaguely in the direction Melkor and Clay should be. “But it’s better to clip the wings when you come in too fast. Like brakes. Only different.”

Sass shook her head in disbelief, staring at the murderous decks heaving in the waves below. They still dangled from a breakwater on a broken glider. “And now?”

Mal checked over his shoulder. “Mm, usually a crew up top hauls us back.”

“Outstanding.” She did a quick inventory of control bobs and widgets reachable from her seat, and found several retractor wheels. Two accomplished little, with no resistance. But she gave the third wheel a few turns, and the glider frame inched upward. “You were going to let me climb out, weren’t you.”

“Still an option.” But Mal pulled up another line, dangling below them, from the pair that had hooked the center of the glider into the catapult machinery that launched them from Divis. He spun the hook on its tether, as though setting up to throw a lasso. Then he let fly at the railing above them, and missed.

Sass continued to crank the tail hook retractor, inching them upward. She paused when he put a hand on her arm to stop for his throw. Ferocious winds still buffeted them, their seat rocking, so this didn’t stabilize them much. Then he’d miss and she’d start up again, until he finally latched the railing on his fifth throw.

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